Crowds reading Mao s Little Red Book. Maoist parade, crowds waving books and marchers carrying framed pictures of Chairman Mao.
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Man looking in a shop window at photos of Mao.
"These are newsreel shots taken in China, with emphasis on the Great Cultural Revolution. The forces that are creating hatred against the Soviet Union are brought to light. Was China to follow the precepts of Marx and Lenin, or the precepts of Maoism? Even though the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries aided China in building up its economy for the first ten years of its existence as a socialist state, all this is forgotten in the tumultuous turmoil created by Mao." Red China, Communist, Communism, Mao-Tse-Tung. A fascinating documentary/propaganda piece from a different perspective. Shedding a different light.
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Chinese students (Maoists) protesting their education, walking away from school, burning their manuscripts. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution)
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Panning MS inside a pagoda-style temple where ancient paintings were plastered over with Maoist propaganda; CU of a Buddha statue, a Chinese slogan stickered over the face. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution)
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Group taking a photo in China.
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Group taking a photo in China. They are all holding Mao s Little Red Book. WLS/MSs of Maoists packing streets, on the march; panning MSs of public walls and fences, Maoist posters and literature posted en masse. LSs of Maoist parade in Peking. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution) The Cult of Personality.
"These are newsreel shots taken in China, with emphasis on the Great Cultural Revolution. The forces that are creating hatred against the Soviet Union are brought to light. Was China to follow the precepts of Marx and Lenin, or the precepts of Maoism? Even though the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries aided China in building up its economy for the first ten years of its existence as a socialist state, all this is forgotten in the tumultuous turmoil created by Mao." Red China, Communist, Communism, Mao-Tse-Tung. A fascinating documentary/propaganda piece from a different perspective. Shedding a different light.
MSs of several young people (Maoists) walking along a desolate road, carrying flags and wearing heavy winter gear including Sherpa hats; great WLS of the crew marching through the Nothing (complete emptiness abounds). walls and fences, Maoist posters and literature posted en masse. LSs of Maoist parade in Peking. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution)
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China prepares for war against the Soviet "Revisionists". Wave of militarism spreads throughout China. MSs of young Maoists marching, carrying Little Red Books. walls and fences, Maoist posters and literature posted en masse. LSs of Maoist parade in Peking. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution)
CU of Chinese newspapers. Panning (left) MS of crowd of young people running to a newspaper stand at which a man waves print propaganda. walls and fences, Maoist posters and literature posted en masse. LSs of Maoist parade in Peking. The Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1967 (The Cultural Revolution)
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CUs of cute porcelain figures, of children carrying guns.
TLS of Chinese soldiers racing across a dirt field. CU of Maoist (wearing shirpa hat) yelling. TLS of Chinese tanks rolling across desert. MS Maoists demonstrating at night. Preparing to fight USSR.
Vietnam War Panning low angle TLS of American jet fighters in flight; LSs of bombs being dropped; aerial shot of jungle explosion; panning LS of burning jungle; TLS of American soldiers deploying from Huey helicopter; LS of a village hut engulfed in flames; MS of weeping Vietnamese family; MS of a bound Vietnamese man rolling on the ground; MS of two dead Viet Cong, a soldiers bayonet at the throat of one of them and cutting.
"These are newsreel shots taken in China, with emphasis on the Great Cultural Revolution. The forces that are creating hatred against the Soviet Union are brought to light. Was China to follow the precepts of Marx and Lenin, or the precepts of Maoism? Even though the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries aided China in building up its economy for the first ten years of its existence as a socialist state, all this is forgotten in the tumultuous turmoil created by Mao." Red China, Communist, Communism, Mao-Tse-Tung. A fascinating documentary/propaganda piece from a different perspective. Shedding a different light.
MS of Chairman Mao Tse Tung (Zedong) speaking.
Aerial shot of Prague, Czech Republic.