Pre-mechanistic methods used for flour grinding in China. Workers fill cloth sack with grains at a market. Workers loads grain sack on his shoulders. Farmer winnows the crop. Beans are powdered using a mule drawn grinder. Powdered flour is taken in a bowl to prepare the dough for bean cake. Woman spreads the dough on a frying pan. Bean cakes are prepared. Farmer's family sits around a table and eats.
Activities in a market on Market Day in rural China. A wheelbarrow load of red pepper crop. The crop is unloaded at a warehouse. Natives in a market on Market Day. An old man cuts embroidery patterns for shoes.
Events related to China's First Nuclear Test at Lop Nur. View of the Atomic bomb explosion. Mushroom cloud rises in the sky. Chinese troops celebrate. Personnel and technician wearing protective clothing are examined before entering the blast radius. They wear breathings masks and board trucks and helicopters. The area is examined for the extent of damage and several readings are taken. Test subjects retrieved. The inspecting party returns. Men greet them and cheer. Translation narration in English overlaying background of Chinese propaganda narration.
River travel in China. Several Chinese boats in a river which runs between high mountains. Natives on shore pull boats upstream. Laborers pull boats from mountain roads. Laborers strain to pull the craft. A man sits on boat with an oar.
Film opens as camera pans over views of factory buildings in China after World War 2.. Closeup of a Chinese soldier pointing to a sign posted on a wooden building reading "U.N.R.R.A. It Is Belonged To Our Office. No Admittance To Anybody Or Armies To Enter." (UNRRA refers to the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) Views inside an abandoned factory with remains of product scattered about as if occupants left in a hurry. Camera pans over outside of factory buildings that all seem quite intact.
A group of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) and several American soldiers are gathered in the courtyard of a building in an industrial area of China during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (World War 2). After conversing, they disperse and camera pans across surrounding compound that looks like it could house soldiers or workers. Another view of the American and Chinese soldiers conversing. Views of industrial buildings with smoke stacks. Corpse of a dead person lying on the ground near damaged building. View through hole in brick side of the building. Interior is strewn with debris.More views of damaged buildings in low-walled compound.
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