China

Educational and Television Films holds much valuable and rare footage from China, from the 1900's through to the mid Sixties and beyond.

Scenes of Chinese Life

16mm 10 mins mute

Cruiser into harbour, junks, river life, heavy loads pulled by workers. Peasant life. Heavy manual labour, market, contortionists. Warships in harbour.

Victory of the Chinese People

Dir: Sergei GerassimovUSSR/China 1950 70 mins col

Made jointly by the Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow and the Peking Film Studio. Story of the victory of the Chinese people over Chiang Kai Shek, some battle scenes are the first ever to be shot in colour. Victory celebrations in Peking October 1st 1949, Mao announces the Chinese Republic. 1930's archaic methods of farming, Communist Party history, early shots of Mao. 1945 Soviet army in Manchuria fight Japanese occupiers. Civil War scenes - PLA and Chinese partisans fight Koumingtang. Some scenes are reconstructed.

China Celebrates

China 1954 16mm col 40 mins est

Account of recent changes in the new Chinese republic. Industry, agriculture, new railways, a new harbour. Tertiary education, shopping in Peking, sanatorium for miners, October 1st celebrations in China. Wonderful Mao parades. Young pioneers wave Red Books. Mao, Chou En Lai and other Chinese leaders attend.

Sun Yat Sen

USSR 1966 16mm 20 mins bw ec

Biography of Sun Yat Sen the Chinese nationalist revolutionary with stills and archive footage. Footage of colonial China in 1900's, European exploitation. Stills of Boxer Rebellion. 1911 Wu Chan uprising which overthrew the Manchu dynasty. 1914 Sun Yat Sen in Peking. Stills of his wife Soong Chin-ling. 1924 first conference of the Koumingtang. Last film shots of Sun with his Generals before his death in 1925.

Liberated China

Dir: Sergei GerassimovUSSR 1951 China 16mm 71 mins col or bw ec

Victory celebrations in Peking, October 1st 1949 with Mao, Chou En Lai and other leaders. The Mao train from KungTung to Peking. The victory loan, factories restarting, new schools and universities are built. Land reform, workers and peasants, army help. Congress of the new government, Chou En Lai report, ratification of Soviet-Chinese Friendship Treaty, Mao speech closes. The new health service. Weddings and dances.