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Song of the Rivers 1954, 1954.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Diplomatic & Political Newsreels
- Newsreels & Cinemagazines
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 1:28:29) : Sound, Black and White.
- Place of Publication:
- 1954,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Summary:
- A compilation film sponsored by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) about their forthcoming conference in Vienna in October 1953. The six major world rivers - the Amazon, the Ganges, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Volga and the Yangtse - are joined by a seventh metaphorical river, the working class movement flowing inexorably towards the Third Congress of the WFTU. The film opens with a number of different nationalities of workers working together on different projects in agriculture, heavy industry and infrastructure, and shows their enjoyment in their work. The second sequence is in stark contrast, and depicts the labouring and working classes around the world living in deprived conditions and engaged in back-breaking labour. Footage of the middle and upper classes are contrasted with the poverty and misery of the working classes.
- Credits:
- Contributors: Shostakovich, Dmitri; Pozner, V.; Kartun, Derek; McCrindle, Alex; Ensink, Ella; Reusch, Heinz; Wegner, Hans; Huisken, Joop; Menegoz, Robert.
- Production Company: DEFA.
- Notes:
- Sponsored by The World Federation of Trade Unions.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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