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China Today 1958 No. 19 1958, 1958.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- China Today
- Newsreels & Cinemagazines
- Standardized Title:
- China Today No. 8. 1957. English.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:09:59) : Sound, Black and White.
- Place of Publication:
- 1958,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Summary:
- Swimming across the Yangtse -- Bumper wheat harvest -- Village vendor -- Wood carvings -- Dwellers of the clouds -- Putung chickens -- Modern starch factory -- After work in Anshan. Footage includes scenes of competitors swimming 5,000 metres across the Yangtse River in a national contest, with medals presented to the winners; workers harvest wheat by hand on a co-operative farm; salesmen bring fancy goods to remote villages and take note of the villagers' requests for what to bring next time; artists at work creating sculptures and relief panels from hard wood; village life on the Tibetan Plateau; a poultry farm which breeds chickens to be distributed amongst peasants to help start small scale chicken farming; a fully automated plant producing corn starch and grape sugar; amateur opera, checkers and dancing at a workers' club in Anshan.
- Credits:
- Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: N-507518.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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