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220674          06:47:24 - 06:55:57           1910s ? - 1940s                  SD        B/W   

INCLUDING:
Excerpts w/ English narration.  Russian troops withdrawing from North Korea - Korean civilians wave them off - soldiers packed onto train waving flowers.  Mao out of train in Moscow? - greeted by Molotov.
06:47:49

221084          09:00:00 - 09:02:28            1930s - 1940s c                   Sd/Sil  B/W   

[Soviet Canal Construction – Mao Visit - Stalin Outside Kremlin]
Workers w/ large banner 1934; forced labour - men clearing ground for canal project w/ pickaxes; pushing wheelbarrows full of earth to and fro.  Top shot swarms of workers on site - wooden boards across trenches in ground.
09:00:19  CU crocodile puppet at childrens party / carnival?  Brief CU Russian typewriter in use.
09:00:29  [Sd.]  Mao Tse Dong visit: INT Bolshoi theatre - applause as Stalin, Mao, Beria, Gromyko, Khruschev, Molotov onto stage.  National anthem sung - good shots packed theatre. 
09:01:41  [Si.]  Stalin, Beria, Kalinin, Kaganovich, Khruschev [?] & others walk in Kremlin grounds, 1940s.  CU Stalin putting hand inside jacket in familiar pose.
 
(Belomor - aka White Sea Canal, or Baltic Canal)

180257          07:50:00 - 08:22:07            1940s                         B/W   

INCLUDING:

Leningrad mlitary defence
Moscow military defence - Red Square military parade
Tanks - Aircraft
On Mausoleum steps cu  ? , Yezhov?    41?  ? speaking . Stalin in fur hat
Big parade in Kiev, A lot of Stalin blown-up pictures including early ones
Late Red Square Parade Excellent shots Stalin waving and clapping crowd - post war
Parade in Peking - Various showing Mao Tse Tung Cult of Personality - huge crowds wave red books
08.07.29

221083          08:11:16 - 08:13:39            1940s ?                      SD        B/W   

[Mao Tse Tung - Cult of Personality]
Image of Chairman Mao projected like sun on screen behind children.  Military parade / rally in Tiannenmen Square - tanks firing salute - Chinese people in huge crowd waving Little Red Book - CUs people chanting in frenzy intercut w/ Mao approaching balcony.  CUs Mao; view from balcony of huge crowds filling square below.  Statue / effigy of Mao wheeled through square; crowd becoming more frenzied inc. young kids chanting animatedly.  Vars stock shots of Mao surveying crowds.  People removing & vandalising road sign?
Intertitles w/ Maos words in Russian - clean page from the heart of the book - smash the dogs heads - burn them alive.


221203          14:00:14 - 14:11:18            1944               SIL       B/W   

Mission To Yenan  (Jul44)  Pt. 1 of 3
C-47 arrival & US army officers off & greeted; board back of truck.  Plane camouflaged under netting.  US & Chinese walk into compound, greeted. 
14:02:17  Map of China & zoom in on Yenan.  Large pagoda on mountain peak, people, horses, carts along road.  Group walking into military base.
14:03:11  CU  Chou En-Lai; Lin Piao (?);  Others included per NARA: Chu-Teh, Yeh Chien-Ying, chen O, Nieh Jung Chen, Peng Te-Hua; Ma Hai-Te.
14:04:09  Mao Tse-Tung (?).
14:04:38  Military review.  Visiting building complex on hillside & entering.  Posing outside stone arches; very old men in heavy fur coats. 
14:05:40  US military (& a few Chinese) on bandstand saluting as Chinese troops march past.  LS of military parade ground.  Chinese military officers (?) speaking from bandstand; US officers speaking.  Chinese rebel guerrillas hiking thru countryside, single file w/ rifles & knives on ridgeline.  Placing mines or bombs on road & covering.  High angle of man walking on road, bombs ignited.  Training w/ very old rifles.  Native band playing w/ drums & single stringed instruments and dancing as many watch from shade, including Chou En-Lai.  US military watching singing & dancing work songs & dances.  Opera w/ narrative.


221203          14:11:18 - 14:20:41            1944               SIL       B/W   

Mission To Yenan  (Jul44)  Pt. 2 of 3
US & others applaud outdoor Chinese Opera performance done by guerrilla fighters which depicted conversion of people to the Communist rebels cause. 
14:12:38  Pan over lush vegetable garden or farm; US & Chinese inspecting spinning, dying & other manufacturing.  Childrens choir sing.  CU of kids.  Kids spinning silk (?).  Military training shown w/ obstacle course demonstation.  Gymnastics & training w/ weapons. 
14:15:07  Outdoor stage w/ canvas backdrop & flags above; audience sitting on ground. 
14:15:51  Gen. Stilwell (?) on rifle range.  Others w/ machine guns, watching w/ binoculars.  Demonstrating explosives. 
14:18:14  American poses; Group in front of stone building w/ elaborate decorative arch.  US man at radio; others at typewriters.  Chinese in/out of gate:  Kangzhan Rhbao.
14:19:16  Wall w/ posters of drawings of various peoples pictures including Stalin, etc.  Artist working in front.  US out of their HQ.
14:19:47 Posing from R-L  David D. Barrett, Mao, Patrick Jay Hurley, ?, Chou En-Lai, ?    Gen. Hurley walking w/ Mao & ??, followed by Barrett & others.  Posing.  Shaking hands w/ Mao.


221203          14:20:41 - 20:31:30            1944               SIL       B/W   

Mission To Yenan  (Jul44)  Pt. 3 of 3
GI & ?? in doorway of C-47, boarding & waving.  Mao & ??.  Gen Hurley & ?? wave from door.  US GIs riding ponies out of village.  Pan of villageor city of Aui-Te on hillside above valley floor.  High angle of people across bridge.  Pan of buildings along sides of hills above valley floor.
14:22:36  Boats along riverbank and soldiers, ponies loaded aboard.
14:23:06  Chinese troops running along mountainside.  Boat arriving; Communist guerrilla troops in trenches, w/ machine guns. 
14:23:57  Pan over destroyed village of stone houses.  Soldiers on rock w/ map, looking across valley, line of people or soldiers moving.  Bugler & soldiers waiting.  Firing rifles from eroded gullies at guard tower.  Soldiers running along ridge; others up hill to base of tower.  Men run into tower, catpture Japanese (?).  Cheering from top of tower.
14:26:56  Soldier w/ binoculars; pople returning to tower w/ bundles.  Fire set & burning tower.   Men shoveling down tower.
14:28:06  Valley floor and horses & soldiers marched thru people watching.  Large cache of arms displayed & soldiers stack and display them.  Pan over captured Japanse (?).
14:29:45  Group putting on dance performance.  Valley & people work (LS).  US & Chinese Communists talking in school or ??  Dinner table w/ fruit, etc & panning over US servicemen relaxing.  Chou En-Lai (?).  Group posing outdoors.  C-47 w/ motors starting & people shaking hands.  Plane in snow.  The End.


220925          11:00:09 - 11:06:29            1945               SIL       B/W    [Mao Tse-Tung Arrival, Chungking; Signing of the Handing Over (Treaty) of Japanese Army...]
Mao and other Chinese VIPs arrive by plane, greeted by  VIPs including Ambassador Hurley?, US army officers present.  CU Mao smiling. 
11:01:15  25Aug45  Burma Government House Interior, large surrender table. Unid. Japanese signs the handing over treaty of the Japanese Army
Digital dropout on 11:00:48


LN 501-583  02:00:24 - 02:06:42            1945               SIL       B/W   

[Mao Tse-Tung Arrival, Chungking; Signing of the Handing Over (Treaty) of Japanese Army...]

INCLUDING:
Mao and other Chinese VIPs arrive by plane, greeted by  VIPs including Ambassador Hurley?, US army officers present.  CU Mao smiling. 
02:01:29 

221022          19:43:28 - 19:50:40            1946               SIL       B/W   

[Yenan - Lady Isobel Cripps Visits Mao]
Pan over hillside with houses and official building.  Camels led.  American DC-3 on airstrip - Mrs. Cripps off with Mrs Miller and unid. American? men.  Mao Zedong & others walk out & pose in courtyard.  Tilt down from hills to valley floor & buildings with caves built into cliffs & people working at spinning & flailing grain, etc.  Troops at outdoor classes; assemble in ranks; exercising.  Banner for Bethune International Peace Hospital.  Ext & interior of patients being treated.  Pan over nursery; kids playing outdoors with teachers. 
19:47:30  Peasant lecturing others in large group.  Woman responding.  Tilt down & other views of hillsides.  Camel caravan.  Mrs Cripps off plane.  Women working in front of caves.  Repeat shots of classes, flailing grain, lectures. 
19:49:16  Mao; voting shown & depositing ballots.  Doctors out of hospital, Lenin bust by entrance; hospital interiors; weighing baby; kids washing dishes.


220936          05:42:44 - 05:52:11            1949               SD        B/W   

Stalins 70th birthday
70th Birthday celebrations for Stalin at the Bolshoi (Bolshoy) Theatre with Mao Tse Tung in attendance.   
Ext. Bolshoi, night - neon lights / decorations - crowds - Stalin picture lit up.  Stalin & Mao enter with others, long applause & cheers. Khruschev on Stalins left, Mao Tse Tung on right.  Shvernik & others making speeches.  Pioneers make speech to theatre - brass band, children praising Stalin & promising to grow up good Communists - present flowers; huge painting of Stalin behind stage.
 

221075          06:03:07 - 06:04:50            1950               Sd        B/W   

Novosti Dnia - May 1950
Prod. Dziga Vertov.  Leningrad nice top shot - statue of Lenin.  Delegation of Chinese workers on tour of leather factory – Mao badge pinned on worker - visitors hug workers.

221075          06:04:51 - 06:06:50            1950               Sd        B/W   

Novosti Dnia - May 1950
Prod. Dziga Vertov.  May Day parade in Peking - big posters Chairman Mao- Mao reviews parade.  Crowds cheering and clapping.  Huge flags carried.  Chou en-lai watching.   Schoolchildren in 04May Parade of Youth.  Posters of Mao and Stalin carried.
 

221426          03:20:57 - 03:32:45            1950               SD        B/W   

Preparedness And National Security  Pt. 2 of 2

INCLUDING:
03:20:57  CU  National Security Act of 1947 w/ Amendments of 1949 on cover page.  Open to Title 1 - Coordination For National Secrity - National Security Council.  MCU Truman at table w/ Council around him.  Page turns to: Central Intelligence Agency.
03:21:28  High angle of Red Square & tanks, trucks, guns on parade w/ VIPs watching. 
03:21:55  Scientist at microscope; factory w/ chimneys smoking.
03:21:59  Mao off railroad & shaking hands in USSR.  Montage of signs of US intelligence agencies & divisions.  Research analyst at work at desk.  Truman & National Security Council.
03:22:33

XLN 505-109            11:47:44 - 11:50:18            1950 c                        SD        B/W   

The World In the Camera - [Defence of Formosa]
Warner Pathe News Magazine of the Screen
Map showing coast of China & island of Formosa.  High shots & street scenes Taipei, harbor. Damaged buildings from war.  Formosa countryside - farming.  Chiang Kai-Shek out of car, up steps wearing long cape; INT Chiang & Madame Chiang.  Nationalist Chinese Army recruits training, exercising, in formation w/ rifles; womens auxillary.  General Sun Lee Sen - trained in US.  Nationalist troops on battle maneouvres.
11:49:44  Chairman Mao out of car wearing winter coat, greeted by officers (GOOD); Communist troops stand at attention.  Supplies sent by US unloaded by Nationalists on Formosa.


220857          02:35:42 - 02:44:56            1950c             Sd/Sil  B/W   

[Various Newsreels - 1950s Germany; England; USA]
INCLUDING:
02:41:44  Si.  BERLIN RED YOUTH RALLY, GERMANY  Brandenburg Gate & signs.  British soldiers on armored vehicles behind barbed wire.  US troops in bg.  Soldier at gun.  Truckloads of German girls.   Arch, youth band playing.  Young Pioneers clean dishes & wash at trough.  Young Pioneer in stadium maneuvers & parading; Red leader before mic.  Street parade w/ large picture of Stalin & Mao banners, etc.  (GOOD)
02:43:22 

221323          02:45:58 - 02:46:15                       1950s?                      Si         COL&B/W       

[Mao]
Color  At meeting in MCU applauding.  Standing outside on stand w/ people visible behind & below.
02:46:05   B/W  Mao signing document at table in Moscow (?)


220921          05:29:27 - 05:41:25            1953               SD        B/W   

[Stalin Newsreel Obituary, 05Mar53]
INCLUDING:
05:36:20  CU Stalin lying in state.  Wreaths carried in, dignitaries & labeled wreaths.  Various shots of lying in state & dignitaries. 
05:39:30  Silent Moscow night; lying in state; Mao w/ Party leaders.
05:40:23  Coffin being carried out by soldiers & pall bearers.


221323          02:18:17 - 02:19:31                        1953 ca                                  B/W   

[Various Communist Leaders ca 1953]
Malenkov w/ Beria (?) & military VIP seated in front row of ??  Applauding, standing & Molotov visible.
02:18:38  Mao, Stalin, Khrushchev & Bulganin (in military uniform).  Similar but another angle w/o Mao.  All shot of same event but w/ different combinations of individuals.
Communist Party Leaders; Communism;


XLN 400-228            04:52:07 - 05:02:44            1958               SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1958 #19 May
INCLUDING:
05:01:30  1st of May abroad  Peking, China, Mao & others watch May Day parade. VIPs on the podium, applaud, people w/ various placards, decorative posters, high angle demonstration.  Also Warsaw, Moscow & unid. countries.  The End.
       

X          221329          11:10:43 - 11:21:07            1958               SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1958 #24 June

INCLUDING:
11:19:51  China  People working on huge water reservoir construction site, CU workers, running thru site to greet VIPs.  CU Chairman Mao, walks thru crowd, workers applaud, CU VIPs, CU Liu Shauqi, high angle worker crowd.  Mao takes of his jacket, CU Liu Shaoqi, Zhou En Lai digging soil, high angle workers, VIPs work along side workers.  The End
Diplomacy;


X221412        22:40:57 - 22:50:47            1958               SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1958 #40 October

INCLUDING:
22:41:20  Title:  9th Anniversary of Peoples Republic of China.  Meeting of Chinese community in Moscow w/ Soviet - China Friendship Committee Chairman Andreyev (MOS).  Montage:  Steel mill, CU Chinese workers & large furnaces.  Machine parts factory, Orientals at long table assemble various bearings.  People on truck pulling long line of hay wagons.  CU new car on road past workers; new tractor out of factory.  Huge field, night harvest w/ Chinese combine working.  Girls w/ flowers smile & wave flower bunches.
22:42:35  Chairman Mao walks alongside workers, stops & applauds.  Huge crowds in Tiananmen Square for parade, people wave w/ flowers.  Khruschev meets Mao on farm, shake hands.  Back to anniversary meeting, Andreyev on podium, audience applauds; Ambassador of China Lu Thau(?), applause as Andreyev shakes hands w/ Chinese ambassador.
22:43:09 

221437          00:25:54 - 00:38:28            1959; late 1960s;                 SD        B/W   

Red China  Pt. 1 of 2
Title over dancers on stage; lion dance.  People applauding.
00:26:38  Lowell Thomas VO describing filming done by filmmakers from India.  Housing, bus.  Map superimposed over faces of various ethnic groups of China.  Temples.  Great Wall.
00:27:51  POV from train parallel to road & past farms.  Rivers & rapids.  Large fish wheel (?),  Pan over cheering rally w/ banners.  Street scene of rickshaws, traffic.  Dancing in street demonstration.
00:28:44  Chinese army VO re 1600 calories daily.  People looking hungry, starving in street & doorways.
00:28;53  Chinese coal miners working underground; exterior of mine.  Open pit iron mine.  Oil storage tanks & refinery.  Dam construction w/ many workers.  Marchers in political rally (?).
00:29:40  Large factory interiors, ball bearing.  Theatrical production; acrobatis balancing on chair & pole.  GOOD.  Audience.  Ethnic chinese, farmers, people cutting grain by hand.  Rice farming.  Women sewing.  Large textile mill.  Rural people walking along road.  Christian church, Buddhist temple, Moslems praying; large Buddha statue.  Young couple eating melon.  Women riding camels.  Park & excursion boats
00:31:36  CUs men, hammar & sickle over; They are either communists, or victims of Communism.
00:31:46  Still of Mao at rally.  Military review.  He has been a flop as a leader.  Like one of the floods, a national disaster.  Wall posters & murals.  Men threshing w/ horses.  Adult education.  Industrial scenes.  Metal working factory.  Large punch press.  Ext. of large automobile plant.  Men pouring steel.  Iron & steel mill rolling bars; other plants.  Large bridge spanning wide river. 
00:34:21  Ext. factory & park; interior w/ women working on electrical insulators.  Large refinery.  All built by others per narration.  Small backyard smelters w/ much labor.  Int. machine works.  Largely empty road w/ a few busses.  POV along road.  Man painting tractor, tractors off assembly line.
00:36:41  Mao & Khrushchev signing agreements.  Headlines of disagreements.  Very large factory machinery including punch press, turbine, textile mills. steel mills.  Steel, coal, electricity, petroleum production statistics.
Note:  Footage shot in 1959.

221437          00:38:28 - 00:49:03            1959; late 1960s;                 SD        B/W   

Red China  Pt. 2 of 2
Farm visited by Russian military & Chinese military; others looking.  Large plow plowing.  Men & women pitching grain into thresher.  People digging fields by hand.  Building dam w/ hand labor; excavating large pit for canal.  Worker communes.  Sifting soil, planting rice w/ machine.  Cutting by hand & threshing. 
00:40:19  Mao off bus greets villagers.  Motorized & people working at threshing; small plow; Man cutting cotton, women picking cotton & others scything rice or grain.
00:41:22  College w/ students on bicycles, lecture hall; people out large building.  Kindergarten; kids watching political play, MCU faces.
00:42:32  Still of Mao w/ other leaders including Deng Xiaoping; Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai); etc.
00:42:41  Traffic scenes; factories & heavy industry.  Still repeated.  Marching political rally of uge number of people.  Army & navy marching, reviewed.  Tanks, personnel carriers, artillery.  Stills of Chinese atomic bomb blast. 
00:44:33  Int. United Nations General Session.  Stills of Mao supered over marchers & floats.
00:45:35  Army fighting in Korea; Tibetans; Indian army wounded assisted.  Stills of Khrushchev.
00:46:26  Vietnam fighters, soldiers in Laos (?).  Atomic blast.  Still of Mao & VO of his promise of war w/ west.  Ext. of Department of State.
00:47:29  Dean Rusk talking to camera about threats of China, pictures of marchers w/ floats of large duck, chicken, sheep, banners etc.  Carrying bomber airplanes. 


220633          11:29:39 - 11:35:51            1960s                         Si         B/W   

Selected Scenes from Revolution Betrayed
INCLUDING:
11:34:42 Montage shots Pre WWII Nazi rally. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler speaking. ECU, Fidel Castro ranting as he speaks. Prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp. Premier Khruschev and Mao Tse-tung of Red China waving at Red Square parade  Russian troops marching. Red Chinese men and women with rifles, cheering. MS, Mao Tse-tung and Khruschev greeting each other. Crowds in streets holding signs. CU of one of the signs "Cuba Si Rusia No" (as it appears on sign).


221198          01:09:22 - 01:18:45            1961               SD        B/W   

INCLUDING:
01:15:53  China & tanks fighting; artillery firing.  Chinese army marching, Mao on stand.  Tanks firing in park, street fighting, rooftop fighting, burning books in streets; 1953 East Germany, 1956 Poland & Hungary, Tibet in 1959 (not seen).  Fighting in French streets.
01:17:10 

220522          18:40:24 - 18:42:22            1964               Sd        b/w    

Khruschev Resigns
Montage profile shots. K waving from train. K at meeting. K with Mao Tse Tung. K with Nasser. K at United Nations making speech and gesticulating - banging desk with fists. Khruschev waving with hat at parade in Red Square. Interiors meeting of Central Committee - Khruschev seated and applauded by audience and Brezhnev who has now taken over. Brezhnev making speech at microphone - some natsof.
18:42:02 Newspaper headlines and picture Khruschev. Ks 70th birthday party

220630          05:00:12 - 05:10:30            1964 - 1966             Sd        Col      

Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tungs Thought - Development of Chinas Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over.  film grainy
Sunrise - Masses with red flags.  Mao on balcony reviewing parade.  Huge parade - balloons.  AVs Chinese countryside looking like contour map.  Cornfield. Industrial shots - mining - steel - factories - machinery. Steam freight train towards camera - loaded trucks.  Chinese troops sitting in circles reading pamphlets re thoughts of Mao.  Military from engineering corp carrying out construction work, preparing buildings and installations for the first Chinese Atomic test.  Soldier goes into bunker through three steel doors. Supplies unloaded from truck.  Scientists in laboratories - primitive equipment. Instruments being prepared for test. Troops training, wearing gas masks - marching across sand at hottest time of the day.  Troops at end of training session remove protective rubber suits and pour out pints of sweat.  Comrades from the Cultural and Arts Troop dance with rifles entertaining troops - troops play football  volley ball and basketball. Quartermaster Corp deliver supplies to troops.

16:09:33 Testing day nears and equipment and arms transported to site - military vehicles - tanks - aircraft - animals which are to subjected to nuclear explosion.
 
220630          05:10:31 - 05:20:41            1964 - 1966             Sd        Col      

Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tungs Thought - Development of Chinas Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over. Film grainy
Various shots equipment ready for first test - calendar turns showing October 16th 1964.  Control panel opened - various shots people getting ready for test - scientists - troops - countdown and explosion.  Atomic mushroom from various angles.  Cheering troops jumping up and down.  People put on protective clothing and gas masks have examinations before entering contaminated area for recovery work - includes women. Helicopters and trucks transport workers to contaminated area.  Taking photographs of effects and removing equipment and animals.  Trucks return and workers are cheered by comrades.
Premier Chou En-Lai announces sucess of nuclear test - audience clapping.  Crowds fight for newspapers. Military personnel prepare vehicles and equipment for manoeuvres which are to take place in the contaminated test area. Propaganda  - combat teams given political indoctrination - anti US voice over.  Gas masks put on horses. 14May1965 Weather balloon launched.  Men put on goggles in preparation for second test - explosion - nuclear device dropped from aircraft - effects of nuclear fallout seen on buildings - mushroom.  Tactical manoeuvres carried out by military in contaminated area - tanks - troops wearing protective clothing in  motorcycles and sidecars - cavalry on horseback - tanks artillery and soldiers. Cavalry firing rifles from galloping horses.  Troops running behind tanks etc

220630          05:20:42 - 05:34:03            1964 - 1966             Sd        Col      

Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tungs Thought - Development of Chinas Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over. Film grainy
Chinese military barracks at testing site for third nuclear test - painting red star on ground - portrait Mao- hanging propaganda banners and signs.  Comrades at propaganda meeting study red book.  Kitchen comrades preparing food for troops.  Sandstorm over tents - soldiers struggle to keep tents pinned down. Covering Mig fighter plane with tarpaulin.  Filling sandbags and digging out equipment from sand. Preparing test site - scientists and instruments. Preparing animals (vivisection) and civilian belongings and equipment which are to subjected to test.  May 9th 1966- propaganda preached to troops.  Control room of nuclear bunker with electrical equipment flashing - explosion of first nuclear bomb containing thermo nuclear materials.  Flash as test house is destroyed.  Mushroom cloud. Dog tied to stake in blast area frantically trying to get free but two caged dogs under ground feel much safer ! Chickens in cages - Monkey in cage. Exposed buildings damaged. Planting seeds in scorched earth following explosion.  Seeds growing. Damaged crops.  Narration says Khruschev and his revisionists were telling lies when they said nuclear bombs would destroy everything.  Streets - civilians cheering and celebrating - getting newspapers.  Reading pamphlets in various situations.  Chinese lettering on pamphlets.  Celebrating crowds - dancing - singing.

220584          10:19:16 - 10:20:03            1967               Sd        b/w     News in Brief - China
Mass swim in Yangtze river - posters of Mao- balloons. Men swimming wearing uniforms and pushing floats with Mao posters - raising arms and quoting slogans. Chinese army taking part in swim carrying rifles.
Stunts.


LC 220405     05:01:10 - 05:13:56            1969               Sd        B/W    May Day
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary  -  re Black Panthers - protest to free jailed Huey P. Newton
Poster for Free Huey rally .  Alameda County Court House exterior??
Demonstration with placards carrying picture of Newton. Angela Davis? or Kathleen Cleaver? at microphone.  White man in suit says Huey Newton is danger to community.  Bobby Seale at microphone.
Black Panther wall paintings, Poster re Bobby Hutton.   Bobby Seale and other pasting posters and Black Panthers distribute leaflets  in streets.
Police searching  people in streets and standing armed in front of Black panther office - man at microphones recounts standoff and shootout.  Police van locked and drives off.  Stills police firing; take man away in car. Eldridge Cleaver? at microphone.  Crowd chants Free Huey. Cleaver & others in crowd hold up Maos Little Red Book. White men in Alameda County courthouse  look out of windows at Panther Rally.  Kathleen Cleaver? or Angela Davis? re Black Panther party  free breakfast program.  Black kids eating and women at self-service buffet.  Seale re Huey P. Newton Clinic & other initiatives in Black community; mentions such programs also benefiting non-Blacks i.e. Chinese-Americans.  Still poor white people.  We will not fight racism with racism.  White in audience.  White man speaks at microphone re duty  worldwide.  Black Panthers parade with flags.  Angela Davis? or Kathleen Cleaver? If all the people dont have justice... liberty... freedom... that means none of us do.   Still prison gate w/ sign Obedience to the law is freedom.  Still Huey Newton. Still  protesters w/ flag Revolution.  Seale makes audience repeat after him I am a revolutionary.   Still Huey Newton with black beret & holding gun  & bullets.

CHINA -OTHER

(DURING THE TIME OF THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION OF 1966-1976)

            220757          22:55:11 - 22:55:54            1967   SD        B/W   

News in Brief - Chinese Fishermen Guests of Taiwan Navy
Fishermen helped aboard Taiwan Navy ship at sea - served food at table and given parcels.

            221088          15:10:43 - 15:11:32            1967   SD        B/W   

News In Brief: Quemoy
Chinese mainland being watched from island of Quemoy - armed guards - women down slope into underground bunker marked Kinnen Broadcasting Station.  Troops launching balloons filled w/ Anti-Communist literature bound for mainland - tied to Republic of China flags.  Examples of medical supplies, books & clothes being sent over in larger balloons. 

X221136        18:00:16 - 18:17:05            1974   SD        COL      Wet Culture Rice (1974)
Richard Chen for American Universities Field Staff.  Supported by National Science Foundation
Documentary on Taiwan's rice farmers whose meticulous cultivation methods achieve the highest average yields per acre in the world.
18:00:27  Taiwanese farmer w/ water buffalo plowing rice paddy field.  Aerial view across paddy fields.  CUs ploughing waterlogged earth w/ buffalo.  Motor tiller plowing field, three men move rototiller from road to field.CU of wheels & barefoot farmers thru mud.  VO Growing rice is an intensive and highly demanding form of agriculture...  Farmer stands on harrow to level pulled by buffalo to destroy weeds.  Markers pulled thru field to mark for planting.  Men & women in pointed straw hats sprinkle fertiliser. 
18:05:56  Transplanting rice seedlings by hand, digging & putting into baskets.  Woman carries hanging panniers / baskets of seedlings along dikes.  Women in colorful headscarves bent over in paddy field planting seedlings.  Thunderstorm interrupts spreading fertilizer and planting.  Farmers put on waterproof jackets & return to planting following grid system. 
18:10:55  Weeding fields & cutting grass on dikes.  Herbicide spraying against weeds w/ handpump.  Also spraying for insects.  Harvesting rice.   Foot powered harvester.  Sifting rice thru hanging sieves & mechanical screen.  Grain laid out in courtyard for drying.  Men tying shocks of rice stalks.  VO gives statistics of income earned by farmers. 
18:16:08   Domestic ducks grazing on dropped rice in field.  Zoom out to aerial view of field now brown after harvest, full of corn stalks tied into bundles. 

 

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