Summary: Second of two BBC schools programmes for secondary pupils about China, dealing with the period 1949-69.
Description: This programme attempts to describe life inside communist China and to illustrate some of the country's recent problems. There is much interesting film of agricultural and industrial life and the activities of the Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution. Mao's plan to mobilise all labour, male and female, is illustrated. The commentary brings out the problems of an over-rapid advance, especially the failure of the Commune movement of the early 1960s and the chaos caused by the Red Guards 1966/7. The commentary and the footage adds up to a coherent whole that is an interesting attempt to untangle the events of a difficult period in the very recent past.
Alternative Title:HISTORY 1917-67 [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:PMO 19
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1972
Production Country: GB
Production Details: BBC Television (Production company)
Radcliffe, John (Production individual)
Pask, Eric (Production individual)
Harris, Jack (Production individual)
Petigura, Erika (Production individual)
Harris, Richard (Production individual)
Redhead, Brian (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mao Tse-tung (person)
Redhead, Brian (person)
Keywords: society, Chinese - ethnic (object name)
society, Chinese - history (object name)
China (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 780 ft; Running time: 21 mins
