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China Today 1961 No. 4

Mass protests against the murder of Lumumba -- Manufacturing coal mining equipment -- Lumbering -- The 26th World Table Tennis Championships -- "Monlam" Festival -- A border city hospital -- Deer breeding -- Glassware. Includes footage of Chinese State leaders addressing a stadium full of people on February 18th 1961, who are protesting against the murder of the Congolese Premier, Patrice Lumumba; Chinese factory workers employed in the mass production of mining equipment; the felling and transportation of timber in mountain forests; the manufacture of the "Double Happiness" brand of table tennis balls and bats in Shanghai in preparation for the World Championships, with views of the newly constructed Peking Workers' Gymnasium (a 10 court, 15,000 seater stadium with a modern suspension roof) which will hold the 26th World Championships; Chinese officials distribute alms to the lamas at the Tibetan Monlam prayer festival in Lhasa, monks gather to hear scripture readings and attend the yak butter lamp service; the facilities available at a new hospital where Tibetans can receive medical treatment; workers at a deer breeding farm; a new range of hand-made glass products at a plant in Shanghai.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today No. 84
Original source: The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508001. | Reproduction of: China, 1961. 16mm Cb B/W pos. | Production Company: Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Peking.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:09:18) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Protests | Imperialism | Assassinations | Communist Party (China) | Metallurgy | Miners and mining | Manufacturing | Coal | Forestry and logging | Table tennis | Mass production | Architecture | Sports and games | Festivals | Arts and culture | Religion | Hospitals | Health and medicine | Breeding | Animals | Crafts | Peking (Beijing) | Shanghai | Lhasa | Yadong | Tibet | Qinghai Province | China | Lumumba, Patrice (1925-1961) | Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) | Newsreel/Cinemagazine | 1954-1975

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