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Implementation of the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in Red China.
Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visit a coal mine in the United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visits coal mines in Fife (Fifeshire), Scotland. Mine workers give them a great ovation. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip wear overalls, gumboots or Wellingtons and miner’s helmets during their visit. Queen Elizabeth II goes down into the mine to inspect the network of tunnels. Prince Philip chatting with a miner. Miners cheer for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon in London for dedication of the American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon's unscheduled arrival by train in London, United Kingdom. Londoners greet them and photographers take pictures. Mrs. Nixon participates in the dedication ceremony of the new American Memorial Chapel of St. Paul's Cathedral. Interiors of St. Paul's Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom).
People gather in the Guildhall to welcome the return of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth from a marathon trip in England.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II, arrives back in England after an official tour to Australia and New Zealand. People gather in the Guildhall (71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH, United Kingdom) to greet her. Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother’s younger daughter, stands with a flower bouquet to greet her. Queen Elizabeth seated on a chair and people greet her and applaud.
Newsreel 'Britain mourns, Soccer champs die in plane disaster'
British European Airways flight 609 airplane crash near Munich kills champions of Manchester United Soccer team. Wrecked aircraft of the Munich Air Disaster is seen off the runway at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. Men standing near the wrecked plane. View of a news stand in England, United Kingdom, where British people are buying newspapers with news of the aircraft crash. Photograph of the players of the football team. Twisted wreckage of the plane seen covered in snow. A nearby home partially wrecked in he crash. Two officials walking around the crash site.
Lord Mountbatten arrives and being greeted by naval officers at NAS in Anacostia, Washington D.C.
Arrival of Lord Mountbatten at Naval Air Station (NAS) at Anacostia, Washington D.C. A color bearer; Navy honor guard and color guard in the background prior to arrival of the Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, The First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff of Great Britain. Lord Mountbatten walks down the ramp and passes through the side boys. He is followed by Royal Navy Naval Assistant Captain L. D. Empson. U.S. Navy Admiral Arleigh A. Burke greets Lord Mountbatten. Lord Mountbatten stands next to an aircraft. He salutes during a 17 gun salute. Admiral Burke; Admiral Sir Michael Denny, United Kingdom Representative to NATO, Military Committee in Permanent Session, Member NATO Standing Group; Vice Admiral Jeffrey Thistleton Smith, RN, Admiral British Joint Services Mission; and Commodore D. G. Goodwin, RN Naval Attache, stand in ranks at attention. Lord Mountbatten inspects Marine honor guard. He and Rear Admiral H. D. Baker, USN, Commandant, PRNC, walk back to receiving line. Admiral Burke and Lord Mountbatten converse. Long line of flag bearers stand behind Marine honor guard. Color guard marches past aircraft.