16mm Film--A Comprehensive Profile Of China (1981)

Up for your bid is this documentary China Today: A New Look At The World's Oldest Culture - 1981, Hearst Metrotone News, 20minutes., 16seconds, Color that has turned.

  This superb screen News Digest travels through the cities and into the countryside of the most populous nation on earth to capture - in sight and sound - a comprehensive and graphic profile of China, as it was over 25 years ago in the early 1980s.

Among the places visited and the sites shown are a nuclear reactor, satellite station, textile mill, airport, cities and schools, industrial and residential construction. street markers, and farm communes.

The unique "people activities" shown include kite flying in Peking's People Square; living on junks in Canton harbor; women barbers; a playground atop a Shanghai school; street scenes and store windows; and thousands of Chinese women and men exercising at six in the morning in a Shanghai square.

The film includes a look at China's history, with amazing archival footage, going as far back as the early 20th Century, showing the men and events that changed China from a feudal nation to a world power.

This one-of-a-kind item is a good used original print on Kodak stock from 1981 with color that has turned, great contrast, a sharp image, and a fine variable area soundtrack.

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