Walter Cronkite interviews Gerald Clark, an experienced Canadian reporter, against a background of film photographed in China by Rolf Gilhausen in 1958. This film covers life on farms, in cities and factories in a country which was then rapidly becoming a real Marxist state, with communal life and communal ownership. Vast resources of human energy were used on the building of dams and bridges with very few machines. The fundamental changes in family life, the indoctrination program, the question of Soviet assistance and the growth of secondary industry.
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ACMI Identifier
003505
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → China - Rural conditions
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industries - China
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → China - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → China - Rural conditions
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → China - Social life and customs
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → China - Politics and government
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → China - Rural conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → China - Social conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communes (China)
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communism - China
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Marxian economics
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)