Newsreel of the People's Republic of China (1950-1966)

Panorama of the bank of the Yellow River.

Sculpture group at the top of the monument to the heroes of the Chinese revolution.

Children at the fountain in the park.

Musicians with musical instruments in cases walk along the embankment.

People on the bank of the river.

View of a building in Harbin hidden by trees.

People play table tennis in the yard of a house.

Young people walk among the trees.

View of part of the building of the Orthodox church in Harbin, a bus passes by, people ride bicycles.

People read the news in dazibao hung out on the street, panorama of a fence with dazibao hung out.

An agitation truck drives along the street, people run after it and catch leaflets.

Participants of the festive demonstration carry portraits of Mao Zedong and banners with slogans.

A column of Chinese pioneers passes by.

Panorama of part of the beach, people with banners stand on the beach.

Adults and children swim in the river, ride boats.

Landscapes at sunrise.

The sun rises.

View of a field.

People working in the field.

View of a Chinese village.

A peasant with buckets on a yoke approaches a well, begins pumping water and filling the buckets.

A peasant takes a bucket of water out of the well, pours water into his buckets.

View of a peasant house in one of the provinces of China.

Smoke from the chimney on the roof.

Panorama of a reservoir and a village.

Women on the river bank wash clothes.

View of a village street, a cyclist rides by.

Portrait of Mao Zedong above the entrance to the central estate of the village commune.

Peasants take a pig off a cart.

A pig in a pen.

Manual threshing in the field.

Peasants with hoes doing earthworks.

Panorama of a livestock complex building under construction.

Types of enterprise construction in rural areas.

Transportation of a large-volume tank using ropes and sleds.

Engineers discuss a production issue, faces of engineers.

Panorama of a rural power line.

Interior of the office of one of the district party leaders, the leader works at his desk.

Views of a city street (from above), trolleybuses and cyclists drive along the street.

Cyclists and pedestrians on the city streets.

Smoke from a factory chimney, hieroglyphic inscription on the chimney, workers in a cradle painting the chimney.

Production process in an open-hearth furnace shop.

Engineers and workers of a metallurgical plant discuss a production issue.

The face of one of the engineers.

Processing a large part on a machine.

The face of an engineer at a Chinese industrial enterprise.

Turning a large shaft on a lathe.

Young workers watch the turning process and the work of a turner.

The master tells a young worker about the features of the specialty and the methods of processing parts, the girl turner gets to work.

The faces of the master mentor and the girl turner.

Panorama of the factory workshop, workers at the machines.

The process of processing a large-sized part.

Parts of a crankshaft manufactured at the factory.

Production processes in the factory workshop.

Employees of the plant's design bureau at work, a panorama of the design bureau premises.

Design engineers at a drawing board discuss a production issue.

The face of the chief engineer.

Production processes, equipment operation.

Engineers discuss a production issue.

A meeting of plant rationalizers sitting around a table with a drawing.

Faces of workers discussing a rationalization proposal.

View of part of the factory workshop, workers at the machines.

Panorama of a new city block.

A watering machine drives along the street, cyclists ride.

Passengers with children board a bus, show tickets to the conductor.

Passengers' faces outside the bus windows.

Schoolchildren walk along the street.

Views of streets and houses in a workers' settlement.

Cleaning the street with a mechanical broom.

Children's faces.

Parents take their children to kindergarten.

Teachers take the children to the kindergarten grounds.

Parents say goodbye to the children until the evening.

Teachers take the children to the kindergarten gates, parents' faces.

The kindergarten music director plays the piano.

Children during a music lesson.

Children play with blocks.

Children at a handicraft lesson.

The cook pours soup into plates before lunch, the children sit on a bench.

Children at tables during lunch.

Children make their beds before "quiet hour", fold their clothes, and go to bed.

Panorama of a sleeping area, a teacher watches the sleeping children.

Panorama of a dormitory of one of the kindergartens, children are sleeping in beds.

Faces of sleeping children.

Panorama of the territory of an educational institution.

Junior schoolchildren are learning hieroglyphs, a teacher is at the blackboard.

Students at their desks are raising their hands.

Female workers of one of the enterprises are studying Mao Zedong's quotations in the canteen during their lunch break.

View of a city street.

Cleaning leaves, loading leaves into carts.

A woman is sitting on her bed at home and sewing, interior of a room.

A radio and a thermos are on the table.

Framed photographs on the wall.

A woman is cooking in the kitchen, interior of one of the rooms, a girl is doing her homework at the table.

Books on the shelf.

Workers at advanced training courses.

An engineer explains the structure of a unit using a visual aid as an example.

Workers are listening to the engineer's explanations.

Faces of workers discussing an issue with an engineer.

An engineer is drawing on the blackboard with chalk, explaining the subject.

A party organizer is speaking at a meeting of the work collective, workers are listening to the party organizer, smiling.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Performances by amateur dance and music groups.

An amateur orchestra from one of the enterprises is performing.

Artists of the amateur group are preparing for the performance.

Performance of the dance group.

View of the building decorated with evening illumination.

Masons laying bricks during the construction of the building.

Workers bring mortar to the masons in buckets on yokes.

A team of builders manually prepares concrete mortar.

Young people harvesting corn.

A doctor fills a syringe with medicine.

A doctor gives a lecture on first aid to members of an agricultural commune.

Veterinarians vaccinate piglets.

Pigsty workers take the pigs out to feed.

The pigs eat and drink from the feeders.

The pig farmer drives the pigs out into the street.

The pig farmer drives the piglets into an open pen.

The face of the pig farmer.

Banners above the columns of the demonstration in honor of the next anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China.

Wheeled tractors are driving ahead of the column of demonstrators, on one of them the numbers - 1949. Members of the Communist Party of China pass by with books of Mao Zedong's quotations in their hands.

Faces of women and girls.

The column of demonstrators passes by a cameraman with a movie camera.

A child sits on the asphalt next to portraits of Mao Zedong.

People on the streets along the route of the festive procession, children with flowers in their hands greet the demonstrators.

Views of the columns of the demonstration (from above).

Festive fireworks in the sky over evening Beijing.

A column of young people walking along the street, heading to work in the village.

Panorama of the station square.

Students with backpacks walk to the station.

View of the platform, passengers boarding the train.

Girls with backpacks stand in line to board the carriage.

Tractors with trailers and trucks with students in the backs pass along the road.

Horse-drawn transport moves along the side of the road, trucks with people drive along the road.

View of a part of a column of tractors and trucks.

Panorama of a part of a field during plowing, tractors are standing on the road.

Loading straw bundles into trucks.

Maps of the railway tracks of Southwest and North China.

View of a part of Tiananmen Square and the entrance to the residence of the leadership of the PRC, a portrait of Mao Zedong above the gate.

Residents of Beijing and foreign tourists in the square.

Views of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing.

People take pictures near the monument and in the square.

Faces of schoolchildren.

Panorama of Tiananmen Square.

People stand in the square with quotation books and read Mao Zedong's quotes out loud in chorus.

The arrival of a train at the station.

People climb the stairs of the overpass.

People stand on the overpass and look into the distance.

Views of the Great Wall of China, mountain landscape.

View of a part of the overpass at the railway station.

Children drink water from a kettle.

Selling pies at the station.

A girl pours boiling water from a kettle into the mugs of passengers standing out of the carriage windows.

The assistant driver wipes the wheels of a locomotive.

View of a locomotive, the driver stands on the step of the booth.

The station attendant blows a whistle.

Wheels of a moving locomotive.

A departing passenger train.

Landscapes outside the carriage window.

The sun shines through sorghum.

Harvesting millet and chumiza manually.

A farmer ties sheaves.

Faces of farmers.

Cleaning harvested corn cobs from leaves.

Panorama of a field during the harvesting of corn and cleaning cobs from leaves.

Horses graze on the edge of a field.

Farmers rest on the edge of a field.

One of the farmers sharpens a sickle for harvesting millet.

Agronomists taste the grains of the new harvest.

Faces of young agronomists discussing the harvest.

Coating the roof with wet clay during the construction of a cowshed.

View of a cowshed under construction.

A weather station employee takes readings from instruments.

An agronomist observes shoots in an experimental field, makes notes in a log.

An oil drilling rig crew at work.

The process of making ropes, workers rotate the rope machine manually.

Steel smelting in a homemade blast furnace during the "Great Leap Forward".

Faces of workers.

Pouring liquid steel.

Making steel pipes in rural areas using a handicraft method.

Workers throw fuel into a homemade blast furnace.

The process of smelting steel in a homemade blast furnace, faces of steelmakers.

Panorama of a large industrial enterprise.

A train from the plant passes by.

Steelmakers at work.

Steelworkers at work at a blast furnace.

The process of smelting steel.

Views of the open-hearth shop of a metallurgical plant, production processes.

Steelworkers watch the process of smelting steel from a special platform.

Steelworkers throw scrap metal into the molten steel.

Steelworkers watch the process of smelting steel.

Operators at the control panel of a rolling mill, the rolling mill in operation.

Faces and hands of operators.

Cooling the finished product with streams of water.

Production processes in a sheet rolling shop.

A female operator controls a sheet rolling mill.

Production processes in the rolling shops of the plant.

View of a part of the rolling shop (top).

Assembly of engines at an automobile plant in Changchun.

Trucks come off the conveyor.

View of the finished goods site of an automobile plant in Changchun (top).

A train with trucks on platforms passes.

A train on the horizon.

A tractor driver in the tractor cabin.

A trailer on a plow-cultivator.

A plow-cultivator towed by a tractor.

Cultivating a plowed field.

Children walk across a field.

A tractor turns around in a field while plowing at sunset.

Tractors on a standby site.

Assembling tractors in a workshop at a plant in Luoyang, Henan Province.

Assembling the chassis of crawler tractors.

Repairing tractors in a workshop at a plant.

Tractor parts on the floor.

The process of circular welding on a special machine.

Reflectors of tractor headlights made at the plant.

A slogan on the wall of the workshop.

Production processes in the workshops of machine-building enterprises, processing of parts on machine tools.

A panorama of hills.

Members of a propaganda team with equipment for radio broadcasting and showing films walk across the hills to a remote village.

Villagers meet members of the propaganda team and greet them.

Preparing the canvas of a movie screen before the start of an outdoor session.

Installing speakers for the soundtrack.

The beginning of a film show, a projector in front of the screen.

Mao Zedong on the screen greets the participants of the demonstration from the rostrum.

The faces of Mao Zedong and the participants of the event greeting him.

A view of Tiananmen Square during the festive event (above).

The faces of moviegoers watching the newsreel.

The face of Mao Zedong and the participants of the celebration greeting him.

A view of Tiananmen Square (above).

Panorama of Tiananmen Square in Beijing during a ceremonial event.

Panorama of part of the territory of one of the village communes, the PRC flag over the government building.

Doctors sterilize their hands before an operation, a panorama of an operating room set up in a village house.

Doctors perform an operation.

Doctors leave the house after the operation and walk to another village.

Doctors examine a patient, measure her blood pressure.

Examination of a patient.

One of the doctors makes notes in the patient's card.

Residents of one of the villages see off students who helped them with field work.

Students leave the village onto the road.

Peasants stand and watch the students leave.

View of a cultivated field.

People on the street of the city read the news in dazibao hung on the walls of houses, look at posters, people's faces.

Trucks drive on the frozen ice of the river.

Boats and small vessels on the river bank.

People use hooks to extract cube-shaped ice blocks from the river.

Children slide down the embankment, go out onto the ice.

Children slide down the ice on wooden sleds.

Children play on the ice, a girl tries to slide on two bricks.

A girl rides a wooden sled.

Panorama of a frozen lake in the countryside.

Children play on the ice, children's faces.

Views of the earth cracked by drought.

A red flag over a well.

People turn a vertical winch for drilling a water well.

Peasants dig an irrigation canal with hoes.

Loading earth onto carts.

View of a part of a field in one of the village communes.

Tanks with water for irrigating fields.

Interior view of an agricultural machinery repair shop.

The repair process, workers' faces.

Tractors undergoing maintenance in repair shops.

Workers repair the gearbox of one of the tractors.

The repair process, workers' faces.

Repair shop workers at a general meeting.

Workers in agricultural machinery repair shops during a political briefing.

Workers take notes in their notebooks.

Panorama and views of one of China's coal deposits (top), coal being removed by trains.

View of a railway junction (top).

Views and panorama of a coal deposit.

Old entrances to a coal mine.

Views of an old unused road for removing rock.

Panorama of the area.

Mining cars move along the railroad tracks.

A mining car is lifted for subsequent unloading.

Workers go down in mining cars.

Views of an open-pit coal mine.

Loading coal into railway cars by an excavator.

The face of an excavator driver.

A train of coal cars passes by.

Miners wave their hands after the train.

View of part of an open-pit coal mine, an excavator working.

A flag with a slogan over a detachment of Red Guards marching through the countryside.

Faces of marching Red Guards.

Standard-bearer at the head of the detachment.

Detachment members walking along the road, faces of young people.

Detachment entering one of the villages.

Detachment members entering the building of the commune board, detachment members' equipment.

Peasants preparing soup for guests in large bowls.

Detachment members eating the soup prepared for them by the peasants.

Detachment gathers at a house after dinner and moves on.

Youth detachments walking along country roads.

View of a field, detachment with a banner walking in the distance.

Detachment moving off into the distance along the road, peasants going home to the village.

A worker attaches a portrait of Mao Zedong to the entrance arch of the construction site, decorated for the holiday.

View of the festively decorated arch.

Panorama of the construction of an industrial enterprise.

Transportation of equipment for installation and assembly.

A peasant carries vegetables in a cart.

Arrival of a cart with vegetables at the food block.

Unloading vegetables.

Rural landscape (panorama).

Participants of the festive rally carry red banners.

Children clap their hands to the beat.

Faces of the rally participants.

Panorama of the rally.

Director of the chemical plant under construction Zhao speaks at the rally, reads the text of the speech.

The rally participants applaud.

The chairman of the local agricultural commune Chang speaks.

Faces of peasants listening to the chairman's speech.

Presentation of gifts to the best workers, rally participants applaud.

Faces of the rally participants.

Performance of artists of musical and dance groups in front of peasants and workers of the chemical plant.

View of the rally and the stage with artists performing at it.

A panorama of a green area in Beijing.

Festive posters and slogans on the walls of a building.

A Red Guard reading Mao Zedong's quotes aloud.

A panorama of Tiananmen Square during a festive event to mark the 17th anniversary of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China (top).

The lead column of the festive demonstration enters the square.