This is the third part of a three-part documentary about People’s Republic of China, filmed in 1967 by Swedish filmmaker Bo Gaertze, and released by a number of companies (this is a German version released by the FWU). The film continues with visits to Fujian, Jianxi and Canton provinces, and the respective capital cities, and documents the process of planting, and harvesting rice, and daily life of the Chinese people. Cities showcased include Nanchang, where we see a traditional embroidery school, Guanzhou with its shopping arcades and Canton, showcasing the traditional Cantonese merchant houses.

00:13 Map of the last leg of the journey – from Shanghai to Canton.

00:20 Card: From Yantsekiang to Canton

00:25 A distant truck rolling on a dusty mountain road, crossing the forested ridges.

0:30 A lake, surrounded by a lush green landscape

0:40 A mountainside sightseeing spot with many local tourists.

0:51-1:04 Terraced fields rice paddies among the foothills descending all the way to a valley, crossed by a road and peppered with small hamlets.

1:05 View from a train window onto a plains landscape of farmhouses, fields, rice paddies and groves. Canton province (Kwantung)

1:25 Rice paddies.

1:30 Water buffalo lying submerged and pulling a plow.

1:44 Hat-wearing peasants walk on a stepwheel-powered water pump

2:04 A pump station at a farming dike

2:10 Canal system

2:30 Mandarin-speaking manager of the group: “Strive to finish it before the beginning of autumn, harvest and plant well, and must mobilize the masses…”

2:53 Rice paddy with a plow in the distance

3:37 Planting uncut rice shoots

3:45 A rice-planting machine, invented in China

4:42 A sign on a board – “When our comrades are in difficulty, we must see our achievements, we must see the light, and we must improve our courage”.

4:54 Harvesting rice by hand, using a type of agricultural sickle-knife, widespread in Asia.

5:17 Threshing rice in a pedal-powered rice threshing machine

5:37 Rice hulling/winnowing machine

5:54 Making spring roll type rice dough wrap sheets –

6:07 spreading the dough and then frying,

6:17 washing the pan to prepare for immediate reuse for the next sheet

6:35 The pre-cooked and ready sheets are put to dry on a reed bedding

6:41 Political Officer’s (Office) in b/g

6:47 Noodles put to dry on bamboo poles.

6:56 Canals

7:07 People dismantling a house to reuse the materials

7:27 People riding cargo bicycles and dragging hand-drawn carts in a city.

7:30 An intersection with only foot and bicycle traffic.

7:45 Aerial shot of a main avenue of Nanchang, the seat of the government of Jianxi province.

8:02 Traditional embroided wallscroll in Nanchang

8:24 The great embroidered wallscroll, measuring 8×4 meters and portraying the 56 ethnicities of China at the National Assembly Place led by the Communist party, represented by Mao, Lin Biao and some other prominent figures (who were later purged). According to the narrator, it took 110 embroiders 3 months to make it.

8:41 Sampans on the canals

8:50 Aerial shot of Canton or Guandong, the capital city of the province

8:59 Traditional Cantonese merchant houses with wave-like firewall roofs.

9:09 Slogan on a condo: “Unity, Seriousness, Responsibility, Livelyness”. Streets of Canton, not many private cars, but buses and trucks can be seen.

9:21-9:39 Guanzhou Arcades, the traditional shopping and artisan district in Guanzhou

9:41 Pearl River.

10:01 Duck farming is a major industry in the South China

10:33 Ancestral shrine for a family – dedicated to the people of the same family branch in the region

10:54 Moms and grandmas washing babies and toddlers, people washing clothes and bathing in the river and a stream.

11:15 There are over 300 varieties of “useful” plants growing in the region.

11:20 The longan fruit.

11:37 Papaya tree with fruit, Banana bush

12:00 Students from Canton on mandatory “volunteer” agricultural fieldwork

12:23 Chairman Mao’s quote about Norman Bethune, a famous politically-active Canadian doctor from Mao’s book “Comrade Bethune”. “Comrade Bethune’s unselfishness and dedicated spirit of benefiting others is manifested in the extreme tolerance of work… the extreme kindness towards comrades and the people…”

12:38 Narrator: The current problems of life in China will be overcome with education, mechanization of labour, and manufacturing or importation of better everyday life goods.

12:45 Singing

13:00 Slogan about the ongoing Vietnam war, on top of the building: “People from all walks of life in Shanghai, support the people of Vietnam, fight against the US and save the country”.

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