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Chinese Militia in Tiananmen Square during Great Leap Forward.

Young militia during the Great Leap Forward in Beijing, China. Men posting and reading anti-American protest letters on a red cloth bulletin board in Tiananmen Square. Communist Chinese and anti-American/Capitalist murals in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. A sports-themed propaganda mural advertising the Great Leap Forward policy. Two Chinese militia women stand in Tiananmen Square. Militia rifles stacked in the square. A Chinese militia man reads a newspaper in front of the rifles. Chinese Militia (Minbing) men playing cards. Militia men wearing sashes at Tiananmen Square play a game of tag and laugh. A young Chinese Militia woman with rifle talks to a man. Chinese women reading recruitment notices for the Militia and auxiliary and reserve force for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079764
Chinese workers raise “Little Red Book”, listen to May Day speeches during Cultural Revolution

International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) parade in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Chinese workers raise their copies of the "Little Red Book" (“Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung”) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Boys cheering while they hold a Maoist banner. Guangdong Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee Secretary Huang Yongsheng delivers a speech to the crowd. Chinese proletariat men and women listen to Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Face of a Chinese woman watching May Day speech. Crowds holding Cultural Revolution propaganda banners and portraits of Mao Zedong during the celebration. Chinese workers clapping after Huang Yongsheng’s speech. Chinese women hold up their copies of the “Little Red Book”. Chinese girls and women with Cultural Revolution posters of Mao Zedong listens to Huang Yongsheng’s May Day speech. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers in the crowd. An elderly CCP official reads his speech. Chinese students, probably Red Guards, deliver May Day speeches to the crowd. Crowds of Chinese workers cheering.

Date: 1968, May 1
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080223
French patrol boat sailing off French Indochina Coast.

Islands and shoreline can seen from the rear of French patrol boat sailing off French Indo China Coast. French sailor pulls anchor chain. Officers on barge of French patrol boat. A sailor throws out anchor from the boat. Shows anchored French patrol boat. Passenger ship 'SS Pasteur' pulls toward the patrol boat. Sailors on patrol boat watch as they pass the passenger ship 'Pasteur'. Shows two sailors seated on the bow of patrol ship. 'SS Pasteur' and two native Junks(Chinese sailing boats) move away from the French boat.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028890
Shellback initiation rites of U.S. Navy sailors being performed on USS Marblehead (CL-12).

Initiations rites commemorating sailors' first crossing of the equator( Shellback initiation) being held aboard the USS Marblehead CL-12 off the French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy sailors dressed in aviator uniforms look through their binoculars standing at the bow of the cruiser. The shellbacks ( sailors who have crossed equator), many dressed in costumes, beat up the stripped pollywogs (sailor's who haven't crossed equator) with wet boards and ropes. Scenes of the stern section of the USS Marblehead. Pollywog sailors pushed into tank of water and black oil. Initiation rite being performed on the deck. Sailors pretend to cut a pollywog with a saw and then let him go as he moves through the initiation rites.

Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028956
Distant mountain range and clouded skyline seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12

Distant mountain range and clouded skyline as seen from the deck of USS Marblehead CL-12 sailing off the French Indo-China coast. A U.S. Navy sailor dressed in a robe poses for camera .View of the stern of the cruiser.Several vessels underway at a distance.

Date: 1939
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028957
U.S. Navy performs shellback initiation on USS Marblehead CL-12 .

Shellback initiation rites being held aboard USS Marblehead CL-12 off French Indo-China coast. U.S. Navy soldiers dressed in mythological greek clothing. Undressed man playing King Neptune, sits in his court. Captain of the vessel being initiated as shellback. Men dumped into a pool(vat) as part of shellback initiation.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028963