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China Today 1959 No. 16

Pig iron flows From Wuhan's No. 2 Blast Furnace -- Salt, salt, salt -- Rejuvenated mountain hamlet -- Embroidered tapestries from Hunan -- First Chinese performance of Beethoven's Ninth. Footage includes the first flow of molten iron through Wuhan Iron and Steel Company's new blast furnace; new methods of evaporation and other mechanised techniques used to increase output in salt fields; new crop irrigation systems, piped tap water and electric power in a mountain village; women working on large tapestries for the new People's Hall in Beijing; the Central Philharmonic Symphonies Orchestra perform "Hymn To Joy."
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today 1959 No. 48. English.
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507738. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China Today 1959 No. 48 China, 1959. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:02) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Industry | Mechanisation | Automation | Metallurgy | Iron | Workers | Agriculture and farming | Irrigation | Electrification | Rural communities | Textiles | Crafts | Arts and culture | Music | Performing arts | 1954-1975 | Wuhan | Hunan Province | Wushan County | Gansu Province | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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