" Report from China" Part 3 (1967)

Synopsis

This 1966/67 documentary "Report from China Part 3", originally titled "Country of Dawn", was distributed by Radim Films in the USA and originally produced by a Iwanami Film Productions, of Japan. The film records many of the events which took place during the Cultural Revolution. Many aspects of Chinese life are covered: the People's Communes, the industrial cities and their workers, and scenes of the young Red Guards journeying on foot to bring their knowledge to the peasants living in the outlying regions of this vast country. All the people in this movie are speaking a local dialect of Changchun, which may make it hard to understand (for a standard Mandarin speaker). Part 3 of the film was shot in August 1966 to January 1967 and shows agricultural and industrial footage of Harbin and the Jilin province. The movie ends with the Red Guard marching along a secular pilgrimage road of the Great March. 0:07 Red Guard and peasants ploughing the fields with tractors round the clock in three shifts, with Zetor and "Stalinets" (licensed Caterpillar) tractors 1:16 Lineup of machinery at a tractor repair factory. 1:30 Inside the tractor repair factory, the ubiquitous quotes from Mao are present on its walls too. 2:15 An old-style axle-repair machine, which could be called an "additive manufacturing lathe" today. 2:35 Electrolytic restoration and electroplating of the corroded headlights 2:44 Quotes read "We must carry forward the spirit of one cent (thriftyness)". Improvised…

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Running time

29 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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