This it the third part of the three-part 1967 documentary “China: Century of Revolution”. This episode is titled, “Rise of Communist Power 1941-1967”. The program was adapted from “China: The Roots of Madness” and directed by Mel Stuart and Theodore Harold White and produced by Wolper Productions for the Encyclopedia Britannica Corporation. The film describes, through interviews and memoir quotes of various figures, such as Chiang Kai-Shek, Gen Joseph Stilwell, Zhu De, Mao Zedong, Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn, T.H. White, the events of the Nationalist-Communist Civil War, from 1937 onwards, which led to the evacuation of the the ROC to Taiwan and PRC ruling the Chinese mainland.
0:34 Card with a quote from Chiang Kai Shek’s biography
0:37 Pearl Harbor bombing aftermath, U.S. war industry, Flying Tigers.
0:55 Barefoot ROC soldiers slowly walking along the road, coolies, etc. Narration enumerates strategic problems of undersupply and corruption in the Republic of China Army during the Sino-Japanese war, based on recollections of Maj. Gen. (at the time) Frank Dorn, Chiang Kai Shek.
1:36 Brig. General Frank Dorn
2:15 Gen Joseph Stilwell, military advisor to Chiang Kai Shek inspecting troops and training grounds of the ROC army equipped with American materiel here.
2:43 Military parade in Chongqing, wartime capital of the Republic of China (as Beijing and Nanjing were under the Japanese occupation), streets of Chongqing
3:18 Bank of Industry. Preferential treatment of military personnel – enrollment in schools for children, factory work, etc.
3:20 Signs stating “Exterminate the Japanese pirates: … “strive for the glory of the nation.” Next to the Big Three Restaurant (Big Three is one of the ways to win a mahjong game)
3:29 Dinner at Chan Kai Shek’s residence
3:34 Cairo Allied conference of 1943 with Chiang, Roosevelt, Churchill
3:50 Chinese communist movement’s mountain capital Yan’an, Shaanxi province
4:07 Young Mao Zedong
4:31 Communist rural school footage – both practical and political training, Col. David Barett, former chief of the US military liaison mission in Yunnan comments on policies of political education
5:17 Young Zhu De
5:20 Theodor White comments on the differences of approach and popularities of the Nationalists vs. Communists
7:05 Footage of Gen. Stillwell inspecting troops
7:25 Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley’s diplomatic mission
7:53 Signature of unconditional surrender of Japan on the battleship USS Missouri, September 2nd 1945
8:30 Hurley as the US Ambassador to ROC meets with Mao Zedong in Yen’an.
8:47 Mao Zedong’s arrives in Chonquing August 1945 for negotiations with ROC, August 27 – October 10, 1945
9:20 Surrender of the Japanese troops in China to the Chinese command, Zhijiang, Hunan province, August 21, 1945
9:50 ROC troops airlifted with the US transport airplanes.
10:10 The Mao’s Long March and the Chiang Kai Shek’s Northern March, Ling Biao
10:36 Gen. George C. Marshall lands in Shanghai, 20th of December 1945.
11:11 US Consular residence in Nanjing, General Marshall meeting for ceasefire and peace talks with Zhou Enlai, a CCP representative, and Chang Chun, a KMT representative, June 21-23 1946
11:45 Communist Chinese marching equipped with Soviet materiel
11:54 Occupied Manchuria’s capital Changchun
12:14 Aftermath of the post-Japanese Soviet occupation of Manchuria.
13:20 Chang Kai-Shek in his Generalissimo uniform, KMT party dignitaries visit the Sun Yat-Sen’s mausoleum in Nanjing. December 1946. ROC congress convenes to legislate on the first postwar ROC constitution, adopted December 25th , 1946
14:18 Asia Trade Company, various fortified positions of ROC
14:27 views of Shanghai’s Bund, many starving rural refugees in Shanghai, bricks of ROC dollars as a result of hyperinflation
18:20 KMT representatives congress in Beijing
19:30 Westerners evacuate
20:00 Footage of PRC National day probably
21:19 children singing: “ love our country… we’re good military men, marching one-two one-two …”
22:05- various ROC military parades in Taiwan
22:20 Elderly Chiang Kai-Shek and Song Meiling.
22:50 T. H. White summarizing the difficulty of understanding anything in the PRC without context.
23:00 Industrial, agriculture and educational footage from the PRC.
25:15 “I saw Mao in a dream” — children’s song.
Footage ends with T.H. White reading a poem
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