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China Today 1959 No. 19 1959, 1959.
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- Video
- Series:
- China Today
- Newsreels & Cinemagazines
- Standardized Title:
- China Today 1959 No. 51. English.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:09:29) : Sound, Black and White.
- Place of Publication:
- 1959,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Summary:
- Peking acquires a new look -- Spring comes to Yuman Kuan -- First big electronic computer -- First-year pupils -- Native products from the Chang Pai Mountains. Features charting the "Great Leap Forward". Footage includes new municipal buildings and factories in Beijing; new oil refineries bring prosperity to the desert city of Yuman Kuan; the first high speed computer being installed in the Institute Of Computation at the Academy Of Sciences; the first day of a new school year in a village on the outskirts of Beijing; the breeding of rare animals (sable, beaver and deer) and the cultivation of medicinal herbs (ginseng) for scientific research at the Institute of Special Products.
- Credits:
- Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: N-507740.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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