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China Today 1961 No. 6 1961, 1961.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- China Today
- Newsreels & Cinemagazines
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (video file 0:09:10) : Sound, Black and White.
- Place of Publication:
- 1961,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Summary:
- Sino-Indonesian Friendship Treaty signed -- Early spring harvest -- Production of irrigation and drainage pumps -- First anniversary of China-Latin America Friendship Association -- Three sisters, all ace sportswomen -- Neighbourhood steel-rolling mill -- Famous comic routine "The Chair Act" -- Hangchow's Ling Ying Temple. Footage includes the Chinese Vice-Premier, Marshal Chen Yi, and Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Subandrio, signing a Friendship Treaty and Cultural Co-operation Agreement on 1st April 1961 in Jakarta; harvesting the spring wheat crop by hand in southern China; a factory in Shanghai concentrating on producing mechanical pumps for agricultural use; an exhibition to honour the first anniversary of the Association on 23rd March 1961; the gymnast daughters of a railway worker from Harbin City train on the balance beam at the city's Institute of Physical Culture; a strip steel rolling mill increasing the variety of its products; two young boys perform a comic acrobatic routine 'fighting' over possession of a chair; restoring carved statues at the 4th century Buddhist temple.
- Credits:
- Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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