Newsreel of the People's Republic of China (1964)

A view of part of Tiananmen Square in Beijing filled with marching youth.

The face of Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong greets the demonstration from the podium.

Demonstrators march across the square with banners and placards in the form of hieroglyphs.

Young Pioneers walk across the square holding flowers.

Mao Zedong applauds the demonstrators from the podium.

Balloons rise above Tiananmen Square, a festive demonstration moves across the square.

Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) bring nuclear weapons to their final state before testing at the Lop Nur test site.

Preparing electronic equipment for testing.

Loading the munitions into the pits.

Testers in a bunker.

A Chinese firefighter climbs an extension ladder.

Soldiers in general military protective suits (GPS) descend from the hill in a column one by one, joining their comrades.

Chemical protection unit servicemen arrive at the degassing and decontamination point.

Soldiers take off their protective kits and gas masks.

Soldiers pour water out of their protective kits after rinsing.

Female servicemen offer chemical unit soldiers mugs of water.

Soldiers drink from enamel mugs.

Military propaganda brigade artists prepare a performance area.

Girls with rifles on their backs perform a national dance in front of soldiers of a PLA unit.

Soldiers applaud.

Soldiers play football and volleyball.

Applauding fans.

Throwing a ball into a basketball hoop.

Soldiers play basketball.

Soldiers buy various goods at a military store van.

The process of sewing and repairing uniforms in a field sewing workshop.

A soldier sews on a sewing machine.

A PLA artillery unit marches through the desert.

A unit of infantry fighting vehicles and tanks on the march.

Transporting a jet fighter by road.

Soldiers throw dummies in gas masks and protective suits to the ground.

Preparation for nuclear tests at the Lop Nor test site.

A serviceman in a gas mask and protective suit photographs control devices.

Placing experimental animals in the area of the expected destruction.

Faces of Chinese cavalrymen holding horses by the bridles, an officer checks gas masks on horses' faces.

The beginning of nuclear tests at the Lop Nor test site in October 1964, the flash of a nuclear explosion.

The effects of damaging factors and destruction in the nuclear explosion zone.

The nuclear "mushroom cloud" rises upward.

The impact of a nuclear explosion on experimental animals.

Dogs in cages after evacuation from the nuclear testing zone.

Checking the condition of experimental chickens, eggs laid by chickens in the destruction zone.

Chickens in a cage.

A monkey in a cage in a bunker during a nuclear explosion.

A wrecked truck in the destruction zone.

Railroad tracks mangled as a result of a nuclear explosion.

View of a dilapidated building in the destruction zone.

People on the city street are dismantling newspapers with the news of successful nuclear tests.

The face of a girl selling newspapers on the street.

People are running along the street for newspapers.

People are snatching up newspapers, newspaper distribution on the city street.

The face of a worker reading a newspaper to his comrades.

People on the streets are reading newspapers.

A girl is reading a newspaper to peasants, faces of peasants.

A man is reading a newspaper on the street.

Newspaper texts in Chinese.

People are dancing on the city square, panorama of the square.