China Today 1955 No. 7 1955, 1955.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Peking, production company.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

China Today

Newsreels & Cinemagazines

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file 0:10:04) : Sound, Black and White.

Place of Publication:

1955,

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.

Summary:

Building the Lion Shoals Hydroelectric Station -- Bridge engineering works turn out new products -- New life on the grasslands -- Where the blind see again -- Shatterproof glass -- A worker's sanatorium -- Cross-country motorcycle race. Footage includes the construction of the largest of four hydroelectric power stations in Eastern Szechwan Province; the assembly shop at a steel-frame bridge building plant; travelling mounted medical teams visiting nomadic people and a maternity hospital in Inner Mongolia; experiments in cornea transplants at a People's hospital; the manufacture of a new type of shatterproof safety glass mass produced for the first time in China; a lakeside health resort built as a rest home and medical centre becomes the largest workers' sanatorium; young men from the Central National Defence Athletic Club in training for a cross-country motorcycle race.

Credits:

Production Company: Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Peking.

Notes:

Archive Reference: N-507377.

Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.