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Red Chinese Battle Plan (1967)

1967 · Short film · 27 min

  • War
  • Documentary
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Informational film on development of Communist China and relationship to West. Produced by Dept. of Defense in 1967. Picture of Lin Biao (0:16). Narrator explains from Western perspective China’s plan for world revolution (0:31). Title credit (0:45). Pagodas (1:10). Great Wall of China (1:20) and stone statues (1:40). Camels crossing the desert (1:50). 20th century Chinese market (2:10). Historic footage of human powered agricultural equipment (2:30). Colonization of China by Europe (2:50). Sun Yat-sen (3:23). Comparison to George Washington (3:31). Large crowds and protests (3:44). Birth of Chinese communist party, Mao Zedong at founding conference in 1921 (3:52). Chinese peasants writing (4:05). Armed Chinese Red Guard (4:15). Chiang Kai-shek (4:22). Chinese Nationalist soldiers marching (4:25). Footage from Mao Zedong long march (5:30). Caves of Yan’an (6:05). Woman using rice flails (6:18). Communists studying (6:25). Communists working with peasants (6:50). Chinese peasants dancing (7:05). Chiang Kai-shek writing (7:16). Japanese soldiers marching (7:20). Man running pulling rickshaw (7:35). Historic Chinese policeman (7:45). Mitsubishi Ki-21 flying in formation (7:53). Bombing of Shanghai 1937 (8:00). Running Japanese soldiers (8:05). Wounded Chinese civilians (8:20). Mao Zedong outside house (8:35). Mao Zedong portrait on train (8:40). Marching red army troops with Mao Zedong portrait (8:55). Surrender of Japanese to Chinese in 1945 (9:20). Impoverished Chinese eating…

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Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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