Newsreel of the People's Republic of China (1950-1979)

Views of manual dam construction.

A propaganda vehicle with electric illumination and an orchestra passes by.

View of a village square during a holiday, a burning bonfire on the square (top).

Soldiers with model airplanes in their hands run in a column one by one.

The face of Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong on the podium.

Panorama of dam construction, manual earthworks, people carry earth in baskets on yokes.

Manual ramming of earth.

Mao Zedong applauds, standing on the podium.

Panorama of a section of a river, people working on the bank (top).

Transporting earth using manual two-wheeled carts.

Loading river silt into carts.

Workers push carts in front of them, climbing a slope.

Loading earth into the backs of carts.

Transporting earth using hand carts.

Construction workers on a slope of a river bank.

Panorama of a section of one of Shanghai's coastal neighborhoods (top).

A red flag at a construction site.

Transportation of construction materials using hand carts and hand trucks, view of a dam under construction.

Hitting a moving target in the form of a tank during firing at a firing range, view of part of the firing range.

A light machine gun crew fires at targets at the firing range of the firing range.

Explosion of a mine chain at a firing range.

A unit of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) marches in formation across the territory of a military unit.

A light machine gun crew fires at targets.

The face of the squad commander giving the command.

The anti-aircraft machine gun crew, on command, brings the machine gun to the combat position, fulfilling the established standard.

The gunner sets the sight, the crew members take their places.

Machine gunners at the firing line.

Firing practice from a standing and prone position.

A soldier aims at a target from a carbine with a fixed bayonet.

A soldier prepares to open fire from a hand grenade launcher.

Installing a sighting bar on the grenade launcher.

Soldiers in protective armor and with sticks with rubber tips in their hands line up in pairs for a bayonet fight.

A bayonet fight practice session, with soldiers wearing protective armor.

Soldiers with sticks at the ready stand opposite each other in the starting position.