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Here Is China R1 of 3

Reel Number: 221583-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: China

Location:

TC Begins: 11:41:03

TC Ends: 11:50:37

Duration: 00:09:34

Here Is China R1 of 3 Exclusive for the men and women of American Industry Presented by United China Relief, Inc. narrated by Clifton Fadiman. 11:41:31 Many junks on water. Pagodas. Scenic scenes of buildings, villages, desert. People walking along path, water buffalo crossing. Cormorants fishing w/ large group of men in boats. Planting rice paddies, woman working irrigation pump; others do it with treadmill & w/ buckets on pole & weight. Water buffalo turning irrigation wheel. Boys hoeing or shoveling to plow. Men carry corn stalks in large bundle pulling roller over land. Men flailing grain in village. Many hand operated tools to grind grain. 11:45:30 Three small children in MCU. Family & farm house. 11:45:50 Yurts in north, horse grazed, men riding Mongolian ponies & large number of horses herded. Capture horse w/ long noose on end of pole. 11:46:52 Using wind on sails to propel pump that raises salt water to surface, dried & turned. Large drying pools. Ice fishing on river in winter. Game of spinning tops on ice played by kids; others skate while hunched down using poles w/ spikes on ends. 11:48:32 Camel caravan, moving into village; mules past & over rocky pass. Up & thru gates. People carrying goods on poles. POV from cart through town street. Riverboats & sampans on river, some w/ sails. On coastal waterway. Travelogue; 1940s; Poverty; Primitive; Chinese Daily Life; Pre-WWII; Oddities; Winter Recreation; Pre-WW2;

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