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Shenyang China 1958 stock footage and images

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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
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 cable factory workers read propaganda posters, Shenyang, China

The Director of the Shenyang Cable Factory in 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.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079774
Chinese w-orkers' apartments and movie production in Shenyang, China

Chinese woman walks past factory workers' apartments in Shenyang, China. Chinese man carries a sack on his shoulders as he walks past apartments. A woman holds a baby, with two other daughters in front of their apartment building. A Chinese woman holding her baby while walking outside apartment. A smiling Chinese girl wearing a red neckerchief holds a fly swatter as part of her contribution to the "Kill Pests" campaign under the Great Leap Forward. A busy street in heart of Shenyang. Model employees’ photographs are on display on a bulletin board at a state-run department store. Customers walking outside the state-run department store. A crowd watching a film shoot on the street. A child actress plays with a ball during shooting. A woman script supervisor writing notes. Chinese film crew at work as two male actors stand in a doorway with crew running 35mm motion picture camera. Crowd stands behind camera and light reflector while watching production.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079772
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.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021675
The agricultural reforms and people's communes under Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' plan in China.

Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021676
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