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Darkness Over China
Crowds reading Mao s Little Red Book. Maoist parade, crowds waving books and marchers carrying framed pictures of Chairman Mao.
Darkness Over China
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Man looking in a shop window at photos of Mao.
Darkness Over China
"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.
Darkness Over China
DO NOT USE Illustrations of ancient Chinese emperors, intercut with photos and/or drawings of the atrocities commited by the state in order to retain and maintain their power (beheadings, humiliation, torture, back-breaking, stretching, etc).
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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)
Darkness Over China
DO NOT USE Still photo of a university professor being marched through the streets while wearing an oversized dunce cap.
Darkness Over China
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)
Darkness Over China
DO NOT USE Still photos of destroyed national treasures (statues, paintings, architecture);
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Group taking a photo in China.
Darkness Over China
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Darkness Over China
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.
Darkness Over China
"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.
Darkness Over China
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)
Darkness Over China
DO NOT USE Still photos of persecution and rounding up suspects.
Darkness Over China
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)
Darkness Over China
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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Darkness Over China
CUs of cute porcelain figures, of children carrying guns.
Darkness Over China
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.
Darkness Over China - Vietnam War
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.
Darkness Over China
"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.
Darkness Over China
MS of Chairman Mao Tse Tung (Zedong) speaking.
Darkness Over China
Aerial shot of Prague, Czech Republic.