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China Today 1958 No. 5

Peking citizens go to polls -- New oil field -- 70,000 cars a year -- A bumper-crop county of rapeseed -- Celebrating 60th birthday Of Paul Robeson -- Training young athletes. Footage includes the people of Peking, including Chairman Mao and Party officials, casting their votes in the May election of deputies to the Peoples' Congress Of Peking; oil prospectors strike oil; an increase in production on a car assembly line; improved fertilisation methods increase the crop yield of rapeseed; Paul Robeson sings and Party members convey official birthday wishes; children practise physical exercises at a spare-time athletics school in Peking. [Sound briefly out of synch during the Paul Robeson feature.].
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today No. 26. English.
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507593. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China Today No. 26 China, 1958. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:09:35) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Elections | Oil | Miners and mining | Manufacturing | Mass production | Transport | Factories | Agriculture and farming | Cultivation | Crops | Music | Celebrations | International relations | Civil rights | Communist Party (China) | Sports and games | Children | Gymnastics | Mao Zedong (1893-1976) | Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) | Robeson, Paul (1898-1976) | 1954-1975 | Peking (Beijing) | Gansu Province | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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