Strohm 0041 (silent)

Description:

Description: Survey of labor and industry in late 1950s China and including portraits of people of different ages and backgrounds.

Much of this footage was used in John Strohm's film "China Under Communism".

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com

Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Cities, Construction, Labor, Industry, Extractive industries, Agriculture

Tags: buildings; men; flowers; bicycles; roads; trees; carts; horses; horse-drawn wagons; children; playgrounds; sliding boards; students; workers; farming; markets; Great Leap Forward; communism; social movements; close-up of hands holding grains; plants; pavilions; women; traffic police; man in uniform conducting traffic with baton; platforms; umbrellas; signs; pagodas; power lines; bike carts; cars; water; rivers; sailboats; bridges; families; murals; factories; fires; close-up of elders; man with long white beard; youth marching with flags; hand-painted signs posted on side of wall; Chinese calligraphy; hand-painted political cartoons commenting on U.S.-China relations; labor; women working; gloves; aprons; windmills; water pouring from pipes; hydropower; farming; irrigation; woman hand-watering crops; ladles; tractors; farming equipment; machinery; close-up of woman with branch; wood; lumber; benches; saws; tools; roofing; shovels; hats; pigs grazing in field; barrels; windows; meat processing plants; dead pigs; pig carcass hanging in slaughter house; paintings; banners; dragons; trucks; cargo; parades; decorations; coal; flags; construction; construction workers moving heavy blocks with carrying sticks; spinning wheels; wires; young woman demonstrating solar oven; fabric mills; ropes; fabric printing; rope manufacturing; spools of wire; vans; trains; hauling; smoke stacks; examining graduated cylinder; motorcycles; auto repairs; chart on board; molten metals; fire; processing construction materials; blast furnaces; donkeys; mules; wicker baby carriages; camels; goats; muddy roads; donkeys hauling car through mud; close-up of grandmother and child; bells; communal meals; chopsticks; toys; rocking rooster; rocking rabbit; children clapping hands; gardening hoes; picking herbs; shovels; soldiers playing cards; military; rifles; guns; men guarding entrance with guns; students marching with banners; multigenerational families; foot binding; music; accordions; infant nursing; mother breast-feeding child; rocking duck; doctors; nurses; medicine; stamping paper work; rain falling; temples; monks; churches; sports mural; exercises in courtyards; basketball courts; basketballs; carts; baskets; construction materials; travel and exploration; portraits of people looking at camera; rolling large boxes on a sequence of tubes; people eating; paper umbrellas; murals

Film Sponsor:

Creator: John Strohm

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: John Strohm Collection PC-0549

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1958

Release Date:

Geographical Location: China

Genre/Form: amateur, documentary, research

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman Reversal

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 660

Complete Record: Description: Survey of labor and industry in late 1950s China and including portraits of people of different ages and backgrounds. Much of this footage was used in John Strohm's film "China Under Communism". Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com Subjects: 1950s, 1960s, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Cities, Construction, Labor, Industry, Extractive industries, Agriculture Tags: buildings; men; flowers; bicycles; roads; trees; carts; horses; horse-drawn wagons; children; playgrounds; sliding boards; students; workers; farming; markets; Great Leap Forward; communism; social movements; close-up of hands holding grains; plants; pavilions; women; traffic police; man in uniform conducting traffic with baton; platforms; umbrellas; signs; pagodas; power lines; bike carts; cars; water; rivers; sailboats; bridges; families; murals; factories; fires; close-up of elders; man with long white beard; youth marching with flags; hand-painted signs posted on side of wall; Chinese calligraphy; hand-painted political cartoons commenting on U.S.-China relations; labor; women working; gloves; aprons; windmills; water pouring from pipes; hydropower; farming; irrigation; woman hand-watering crops; ladles; tractors; farming equipment; machinery; close-up of woman with branch; wood; lumber; benches; saws; tools; roofing; shovels; hats; pigs grazing in field; barrels; windows; meat processing plants; dead pigs; pig carcass hanging in slaughter house; paintings; banners; dragons; trucks; cargo; parades; decorations; coal; flags; construction; construction workers moving heavy blocks with carrying sticks; spinning wheels; wires; young woman demonstrating solar oven; fabric mills; ropes; fabric printing; rope manufacturing; spools of wire; vans; trains; hauling; smoke stacks; examining graduated cylinder; motorcycles; auto repairs; chart on board; molten metals; fire; processing construction materials; blast furnaces; donkeys; mules; wicker baby carriages; camels; goats; muddy roads; donkeys hauling car through mud; close-up of grandmother and child; bells; communal meals; chopsticks; toys; rocking rooster; rocking rabbit; children clapping hands; gardening hoes; picking herbs; shovels; soldiers playing cards; military; rifles; guns; men guarding entrance with guns; students marching with banners; multigenerational families; foot binding; music; accordions; infant nursing; mother breast-feeding child; rocking duck; doctors; nurses; medicine; stamping paper work; rain falling; temples; monks; churches; sports mural; exercises in courtyards; basketball courts; basketballs; carts; baskets; construction materials; travel and exploration; portraits of people looking at camera; rolling large boxes on a sequence of tubes; people eating; paper umbrellas; murals Film Sponsor: Creator: John Strohm Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: John Strohm Collection PC-0549 Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1958 Release Date: Geographical Location: China Genre/Form: amateur, documentary, research Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: positive, reversal Color: color Color Process: Eastman Reversal Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: triangle Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 660