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China Today 1958 No. 19

Swimming across the Yangtse -- Bumper wheat harvest -- Village vendor -- Wood carvings -- Dwellers of the clouds -- Putung chickens -- Modern starch factory -- After work in Anshan. Footage includes scenes of competitors swimming 5,000 metres across the Yangtse River in a national contest, with medals presented to the winners; workers harvest wheat by hand on a co-operative farm; salesmen bring fancy goods to remote villages and take note of the villagers' requests for what to bring next time; artists at work creating sculptures and relief panels from hard wood; village life on the Tibetan Plateau; a poultry farm which breeds chickens to be distributed amongst peasants to help start small scale chicken farming; a fully automated plant producing corn starch and grape sugar; amateur opera, checkers and dancing at a workers' club in Anshan.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today No. 8. 1957. English.
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507518. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China Today No. 8. 1957 China, 1958. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:09:59) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Swimming | Competition | Sports and games | Crops | Agriculture and farming | Agricultural workers | Consumerism | Commerce | Co-operatives | Crafts | Sculptures | Rural communities | Livestock | Factories | Modernisation | Automation | Mass production | Leisure | Opera | Performing arts | Traditional dance | Music | 1954-1975 | Yangtze River | Tibet | Shijiazhuang | Anshan | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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