The Director of the Shenyang Cable Factory in communist China. Spools of copper wire on the factory floor. Chinese worker smiles as he guides copper wire upwards from spool into upstairs factory area. Men pointing to propaganda posters calling the United States “bandits” and encouraging workers to surpass United States production. Other Great Leap Forward propaganda posters urge production to rise like the Sputnik space progam. One poster depicts an Arab holding a rifle translates to, “Send the British invading army out of the Middle East.” A man reads a plant production board outside a factory. Red flags on plant production chart denote workers with good productivity. Young Chinese students march to a factory as voluntary laborers. Boys who are members of the Youth League are seen shoveling gravel on the street.
Chinese woman laborers near Shenyang excavating land by hand in preparation for building construction during the Communist Great Leap Forward. Women carry baskets of soil while others dig. A white American man helps women carry a basket. Chinese men herding cows on a dirt road. People riding donkey and oxcarts on the road as seen from a moving vehicle. Men standing in front of a newly built commune on the outskirts of Shenyang. Posters on display in front of the commune headquarters. Hogs at a commune. Farmers placing stacks of reeds to dry near a river. A man places a bunch of reeds on a horse cart. A man leads two donkeys on a muddy road to pull a car out of the mud.
Smiling woman worker outside the Fushun Oil Factory, a shale oil extraction facility, in Liaoning province, China during the Great Leap Forward. Oil storage tanks. A Chinese man in points to a propaganda cartoon drawn on a blackboard. Oil factory director wearing glasses and white shirt smiles, smokestacks behind. Chinese director shaking hands with an American visiting the oil refinery. American man wears a face mask. Man and woman lab technicians collect sample from a pipe and examine it in a graduated cylinder. The Fushun open pit coal mine. A jet of water in the open pit mine during hydraulic mining process. Water flows from mine. Cable cars on train tracks moving coal, hauling to the surface. Cable car containing coal is overturned into a hopper. Worker watches train rail cars full of coal pass by.
Steel mill operated by the Steel Company of Anshan, the center of steel production in China during the Great Leap Forward. Smokestacks of steel factory. Hopper on conveyor rises outside steel mill. Foundry ladle pours metal. Row of open hearth furnaces. A foundry worker pulls a sample from a furnace. Steel mill workers silhouetted against glowing liquid metal. Hot steel bars roll on factory assembly line. Sparks fly above Bessemer converter. Chinese workers crowd in front of a small steel furnace. A steel mill worker in protective clothing works outside the small foundry. A worker looks into hearth and then turns to camera with a smile. A communist propaganda banner hanging in front of the foundry reads “We are determined to liberate Taiwan.”
Soil erosion in the United States shows heavily eroded soil during the Dust Bowl era. Dusty field in the Great Plains region of the United States during the Great Depression. Close up of windmill spinning quickly. Dusty road and sign that reads “Dalhart city limit.” Wind blowing against a wire fence. Thick clouds forming as dust storm approaches. A man runs to his house just before dust storm hits. Dust storm enveloping field. Close up view of dust piling up on field. A woman picks her child up and runs into house as dust storm hits. A man runs as strong winds blow in the dust storm. Aftermath of a dust storm. Sand covers the whole farm in large drifts of dust. Car and wagon buried in sand. Barren farm land covered in dust during the Great Depression,
Orange trees growing in an orchard in California during the Great Depression. Walnut trees in a grove. Mountains surround a bean field. Clouds forming before a storm. Wheat stalks blowing in the wind. Lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm. Torrential rain floods a farmland. Soil erosion from flooding seen on a hillside. A farmer walks through land severely damaged by floods after a storm. A farmer and his wife survey the damage done to their orange grove after flooding. Various farmlands damaged by soil erosion. Muddy topsoil oozing and collapsing during heavy rain. Rain washing away the topsoil of land. Gullies forming from torrential rain. Topsoil being washed away in creeks. Rapids in creeks during heavy rain, pouring into rivers. Flood washing away an uprooted tree. Soil erodes from side of a river. Aerial view of topsoil pouring into the Pacific Ocean along the California Coast.
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