This 1966/67 documentary “Report from China Part 2”, originally titled “Country of Dawn”, was distributed by Radim Films in the USA and originally produced by a Iwanami Film Productions, of Japan.
The film records many of the events which took place during the Cultural Revolution. Many aspects of Chinese life are covered: the People’s Communes, the industrial cities and their workers, and scenes of the young Red Guards journeying on foot to bring their knowledge to the peasants living in the outlying regions of this vast country.”
All the people in this movie are speaking a local dialect of Changchun, which may make it hard to understand (for a standard Mandarin speaker). Part 2 deals primarily with the economic development of the areas around the city and the celebration of the Chinese National day on October 1st, 1966.
0:14 Jing again, explaining the use of a tool.
2:47 Jing at the University of Shenyang, Mao’s quotes on the walls.
3:21 Classical Chinese dance and music at the Shenyang Palace of Culture. Musicians playing flute, biba (luth), erhu (fiddle) and guzheng (zither)
4:32 Shenyang Palace of Culture at night
4:40 The send-down youth of the ” Lost generations “
5:50 A lecturer explains about about cattle diseases
5:50 Modern swine husbandry The young female student is wearing a personal number sewed on her jacket, and a red armband designating her position in a work brigade.
8:07 An entrance gate is decorated with wreaths of pine branches, portrait of Mao Zedong and banners: “Long live the CCP!” etc.
8:20 Fertilizer factory construction site
9:26 Housing project for factory workers and the People’s Commune
10:18 Mr. Chao, factory supervisor, reading a speech from a podium ” Changchun city chemical fertilizer Red Banner Public Co., Gala for the 17th anniversary of the Establishment of the Nation”
10:44 Mr. Chang, commune head, reading a speech about food production
11:58 Northern Chinese dancing
12:07 Celebration of the Chinese National Day 1st of October 1966, at Changchun Park, Changchun, banners and signs with various slogans followed by a pan over the former Imperial Square (Changchun was the capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo). Workers and Young Pioneers on parade.
12:40 Red Guard (with an armband of Red Guard)
14:46 “Long live the CCP ! “
16:06 College and high-school students being sent off to the countryside
17:03 “Long live the Socialist Society ! ” or “Long live Public Service!”
18:11 More licensed Soviet Caterpillar S-60 tractors, Zetor tractors and ZIS trucks at a farm – sowing and gathering hay.
18:40 Harvesting wheat by hand.
19:30 Red Guards sorting and husking corn
20:20 “I will put (this) very deep inside the (soil) HAHAHAH” (countryside innuendo jokes)
20:40 Mr. Liu, the Commune’s head
21:11 Agricultural college building under construction, digging out a well, installing a meteorological station.
22:44 Casting an iron pipe at a local smithy operated by peasants – claimed a positive result which apparently came out of the catastrophic Great Leap Forwards backyard iron casting workshops.
24:00 The rebuilt Changchun steel mill district. More Mao quotes painted on the walls.
28:04 Banner :” Support the Vietnamese people against USA, help their honorable struggle !”
28:11 Changchun Automobile Factory, today FAW Group Corporation
28:16 Assembly of the (sublicensed) Soviet ZIS and ZIL trucks, under the Jie Fang brand, titled here is the truck model “Liberation”.
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com
