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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220630-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1964-1966
Country: China
Location:
TC Begins: 05:10:41
TC Ends: 05:20:40
Duration: 00:09:59
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pt. 2 of 3 Continued... Calendar pages for 15Oct64 & 16Oct64. Cover of control panel unlocked & removed. CU clock w/ various second hands, etc. turning intercut w/ soldiers seated on hillside, cameras, technicians watching instruments w/ blinking lights, at electronic control panels, narrator counts down. 05:11:30 Explosion blast, fiery red mushroom cloud raising from various angles & distances. Narrator VO attributing it to Mao’s thoughts, etc. GOOD. 05:13:08 Soldiers run forward cheering; soldiers checked for radiation (?); CU woman soldier drinking water, smiling; another fitting gas mask over protective gear on technician / soldier. Group puts on protective masks in back of truck & convoy moving into radiation contaminated area; helicopters in. Soldiers gather test equipment, take pictures of instruments & retrieve animals. 05:15:06 Trucks return & workers are cheered by comrades. 05:15:20 MCU Premier Zhou Enlai in auditorium announces success of nuclear test - audience clapping. 05:15:38 Crowds fight for newspapers, CUs hands & papers. 05:15:52 Military personnel prepare row of trucks for second test blast. CU soldier in white coveralls saluting & speaking to troops in front of artillery in gun pits in desert; other units given political indoctrination. Anti US voice over re “expanding in Asia & their war of aggression in Vietnam”. Drugs / pills passed out & taken. 05:17:00 Camera tracks past soldiers at attention beside horses; gas masks put on horses. 05:17:14 14May1965. Weather balloon launched for second test. LS Soldiers along sandy ridgeline; CU put on goggles. 05:17:37 Explosion of nuclear bomb in atmosphere. MS blast effects on truck, antenna, buildings; tent bursts into flames before being blown away. 05:18:02 LS mushroom cloud rising above small plume. 05:18:38 Tanks racing along sandy desert road towards rising cloud. Troops wearing protective clothing on motorcycles & sidecars past Chinese characters on hillside. Tilt down from rising cloud to cavalry on horseback riding away across desert; tanks w/ troops; artillery & soldiers running w/ rifles & firing as they cross overturned railroad tracks. 05:19:54 Cavalry firing rifles from galloping horses, waving swords. Troops running behind tanks etc. Continued... Chinese Propaganda; 1960s; Great Leap Forward; Communism; Cultural Revolution; NOTE: Source film is grainy & has printer ride & wear. NOTE: Any continuous 12 minutes of three cards (05:00:12 - 05:33:59) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk