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1960s - China: Mao Tse Tung - ‘Cult of Personality’

Reel Number: 221083-13

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960s

Country: China

Location: beijing [ peking ],Tiananmen Square

TC Begins: 08:11:16

TC Ends: 08:13:39

Duration: 00:02:23

1960s - China: Mao Tse Tung - ‘Cult of Personality’ Image of Chairman Mao Zedong projected like sun on screen behind children. Military parade / rally in Tiananmen Square - tanks firing salute - Chinese people in huge crowd waving ‘Little Red Book’ - CUs people chanting in frenzy intercut w/ Mao approaching balcony. CUs Mao; view from balcony of huge crowds filling square below. Statue / effigy of Mao wheeled through square; crowd becoming more frenzied inc. young kids chanting animatedly. Various stock shots of Mao surveying crowds. People removing & vandalizing road sign? Intertitles w/ Mao’s words in Russian - “clean page from the heart of the book” - “smash the dogs’ heads” - “burn them alive”. Communist China; Communism; Cultural Revolution;

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