Communist China Documentary "Red China" Part 1 14664 (1962)

Synopsis

In "Red China", host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China’s Communist Party. “Part 1” of the episode starts out with footage of Chinese men pulling a boat upriver, communist soldiers marching during the 10th Anniversary celebration, and Fernand Gigon. Chet Huntley speaks to the camera (01:47) about U.S. relations with communist China. There is a shot of Hong Kong from the point of view of a tram moving up a mountain (02:43). Footage shows Chinese people moving between Hong Kong and China, as well as people walking through the streets of Hong Kong. Gigon sits in a hotel room making notes; then he speaks to the camera about his first visit in 1956 (03:50) and his most recent visit. Viewers see the Lowu railway station (05:10); passenger cars pass by agriculture fields. Communists and Mao Tse-tung hole up in their mountain hideout during fighting with Chiang Kai-shek’s forces (05:50). In Shanghai, people are executed in a street (06:37). Nationalists retreat from China and flee to Formosa (Taiwan). A mob crowds the entrance to a bank. A man uses an ox-drawn plow to clear out mud in a rice paddy (08:31). Communists celebrate in 1949 as Mao and forces march into Peking (Beijing). Mao meets with his officers. Mao arrives in Moscow and is greeted by Soviet leaders (09:33). In February 1950 Zhou Enlai signs the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship as Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev watch. Chinese peasants labor to produce food; a woman mills grain…

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32 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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