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Chinese commune workers near Beijing, China during Great Leap Forward.

Chinese farmers plowing a field at a commune north of Beijing. The farmers digging furrows deeper with shovels. "Plow deep to bury the American aggressor is the slogan,” says the narrator. Carpenters sawing wood outdoors. A man strips bark from lumber using a draw shave tool. Workers repairing roof of commune building. Chinese women and children picking vegetables, harvesting crops. Farmers examine heads of Chinese Cabbage. A blind folded donkey powers an irrigation pump. Chinese woman farmers threshing millet with help from children. Harvested corn hanging on poles and husked corn in baskets. “Their corn is very poor, some of it is fairly good.” says the narrator.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079770
Chinese farmers harvesting, rural roads, Great Wall of China.

Chinese woman threshes millet at a Chinese commune during the Great Leap Forwards. A young Chinese girl hold millet or corn stalks. Elderly men carry armfuls of husks. Students Peking Universities and high schools (now Beijing) laboring on the weekend as duty to the Great Leap Forward. Young Chinese men and women digging soil with shovels and carrying soil in baskets slung between poles. Donkeys pulling carts on a road. People follow donkey carts to pick up vegetables or seeds as part of a no waste policy associated with the Leap Forward. Rural road north of Beijing as seen from a moving vehicle. People cycling past a workers’ apartment. Camel caravans transporting goods and herd of goats on road. A Chinese man stands beside a camel. The Great Wall of China extending over a mountain range. Goats gathered on top of a stone with Chinese characters written on it that translate to, "Support the Convservation Program." A Chinese man stands on the Great Wall of China. A white American man walking on the Great Wall of China.

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079771
Lathes produced inside a factory in Shenyang, China

Chinese Vice Director of Machinery Plant Number 1 in Shenyang, China stands with his office staff. Newly built lathes in the factory during China's Great Leap Forward program. A Chinese worker operating one of the lathes. Workers pull a crate containing a new lathe while other workers insert rollers underneath the crate to keep it rolling.

Date: 1958
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079773
Chinese laborers excavate and harvest commune crops in Shenyang, China

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.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079775
Fushun Oil Factory and open pit coal mine in China.

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.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079776
Steel production in Anshan, China; communist propaganda banner.

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.”

Date: 1958
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079777