Archival Film Footage on Mao

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200302 181559 TRD B/W
02.05.20
02:05:41
Stalin's 70th Birthday Celebrations - 1949
Malenkov and Beria sit motionless, whilst all around Voroshilov and Walter Ulbricht in background applaud
MS Mao Tse Tung Stalin and Khruschev with Bulgarin in background;

220022 180301 B/W 01:10:19
01.21.29
Aircraft carrier
BV running into Seoul, U.S. tanks, street fighting, U.S. surrenders / flag back on Seoul capitol. NKs on street marching plus guerillas, burning / anti aircraft / bridge. ( Chinese retake Seoul. )
01:12:28 Good Kim Il Sung, Mao and Stalin posters
Digging tunnels
Steel underground
Poster - pan to people making weapons and bullets
Racks of guns pan around tunnels
Down steps - opener ????
Mortars
Best bullet sequence *****
MG ( machine gun ? ) firing
Woman along through wrecked buildings, caves etc.
01:17:26 Kim Il Sung - Kim speaking
01:17:58 Woman working irrigator, camouflage in rice fields and man watching
Woman out of rubble two shots
Army in or supplies, given to troops and handed around
01.19.49 Artillery exchange underground shelters ** fixed position war. More running in streets men carrying stretcher and a frame and line women porters
Mashed bridge with train on it, wrecked railyards, repairs by army
Bridge repaired

200047 180257 TRD B/W 07.50.00
08.22.07 USSR BC 3 - Tofik 3
Leningrad mlitary defence
Moscow military defence - Red Square military parade
Tanks - Aircraft
On Mausoleum steps cu ? , Yezhov? 41? ? speaking . Stalin in fur hat
Big parade in Kiev, A lot of Stalin blown-up pictures including early ones
Late Red Square Parade Excellent shots Stalin waving and clapping crowd - post war
Parade in Peking - Various showing Mao Tse Tung "Cult of Personality" - huge crowds wave red books
08.07.29 Excellent footage Hitler - crowd adoration etc Hitler gets flowers etc from crowds - good shot Hitler in open top car through crowds with raised arm salute.
08.09.32 Young Khruschev makes animated speech - waving fist. Worker ? making animated speech. Russian politician ? making animated speech
08.13.05 Moscow at night - buildings lit - celebrations - dancing in street - fireworks very spectacular
08.20.53 Russian shoppers - well stocked shops. Art exhibition
Ends

625778 is dub with different time code (VHS with BITC is 180240)

Includes very good propaganda shots of Hitler and camera cars, anschluss, Chairman Mao

220027 180052 TRD B/W 04.00.00
04.35.38 Stalin 70th Birthday celebrations at theatre - Mao present - various speeches- pioneers parade and present flowers and make speeches
Russian steam train transporting workers to Labour camp
Young Stalin with Kalinin and Kirov?
Belamor slave labour - interior camp barracks - forced labour
Workers adrressed by ?
Stalin watches ship pass through canal - Stalin on board ship
Felling trees - interior offices - workers marching to work - breaking stones b y hard labour - camp band playing - various shots construction etc

Death of Stalin
Lenins death

200346 181625 TRD col 00.00.17
00.01.53 Khruschev "shit Speech" with colour cutaway of Ike
Various shots B/W and colour Mao Tse Tung
Sputnik - short shot take off
Tape ends

200355 181929 TRD B/W 12.01.00
12.32.26 1934 forced labour, canal construction
CU Russian typewriter (short)
1930's CU Stalin
Mao visit, interior Bolshoi theatre - Beria, Gromyko, Khruschev, Molotov
National anthem sung
Stalin, Beria, Kalinin, Paganovich walk in Kremlin grounds b/w
Mikoyen and Khruschev climb onto podium 1940's
Colour - and B/w stills Pasternak?
1958 Congress - Khruschev, Mikoyen applaud
Newspaper sales, kiosks, Moscow streets 1950's
Stills, Woods -
Very Brief shot Brandenburg gate with screens - 1971 Pravda showing Khruschevs death as a footnote
Early K. stills
Khruschev, Mikoyen, Beria,Molotov, Voroshilov walk in Kremlin grounds c May 1950's Stalin onto Lenin Mausoleum - panning shot along mausoleum b/w
K party membership card 1925 - 1927 - Stalins 70th birthday card
Castro and Cuban revolution - victory parade - Castro addresses crowd - K with Castro
Party Congress
November parade (military) Brezhnev and K on Mausoleum - other parades (May?) CU poster carried of K and Castro
K donating coat to man?! - Various informal shots K - hunting party
Ends.

180245 TRD 01.00.27
01.09.50 70th birthday celebrations for Stalin at the Bolshoi with Mao Tse Tung in attendance
Pioneers make speech - flowers etc.

180240 TRD
01.32.45 Stalin is With Us for Rushes see 200046,200045,200047
Band with workers marching behind; girl puts on headphone
Young pioneers march along
Mining/ to and fro silhouette/odd angles miners/carts etc. some music, some speech
Desecration of churches
Red Flag on steeple
Silhouette/ evening shots of industry e.g. overtime
On Mausoleum in Red Square Molotov, Kalinin, Kaganovich,Beria,Voroshilov,Mikoyan
Mikoyan sync at 20th Birthday of Cheka, seems to start mid-sentance. ends in applause off camera
Post War big rally and Red Square
WS Kremlin, rally in red Square May day 41?
Ships/medicals/soldiers/tanks
Leningrad mlitary defence
Moscow military defence
On Mausoleum steps cu ? , Yezhov? 41?
Beria speaking . Stalin in fur hat
Big parade in Kiev, A lot of Stalin blown-up pictures including early ones
Late Red Square Parade Excellent shots Stalin waving and clapping crowd
Various showing Mao Tse Tung "Cult of Personality"
Excellent footage Hitler - crowd adoration etc
Ends

LN 890-001 220303 LN 890-001 1960's B/W Sd 02.24.35
02.31.18 Why Vietnam Part Three
1964 - Destroyed American air bases and troop installations. Aftermath of bomb at American Embassy in Saigon - ambulances . US Helicoptors - US troops firing from coptor. Wounded US servicemen in hospital. Lines of coffins covered with Stars and Stripes. Various shots vietnamese peasants - faces.
05.26.30 American troopship - soldiers disembarking. Combat units of US Marine Corp arrive Vietnam - out of landing craft. Army combat units arriving by plane. Military trucks - helicoptors - fighter planes. Planning meeting. Civilian casualities. South Vietnamese children in nursery school, washing hands and having meal.
President Johnson saying he doesnt find it easy to send young men into battle over stills of American youth. Mao Tse Tung and poster Ho Chi Minh.
05.29.30 prow of US naval ship through water. US Air Craft Carrier - fighters take off. B-52s dropping bombs. Tank - marines landing - troops in jungle. LBJ speaking re Why we are in Vietnam

LN 501-039 LN 501-039 LN 501-039 1964 - 1966 Col Sd 16.00.18
16.10.36 Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought - Development of China's Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over. film grainy
Sunrise - Masses with red flags. Mao on balcony reviewing parade. Huge parade - balloons. AVs Chinese countryside looking like contour map. Cornfield. Industrial shots - mining - steel - factories - machinery. Steam freight train towards camera - loaded trucks.Chinese troops sitting in circles reading pamphlets re thoughts of Mao. Military from engineering corp carrying out construction work, preparing buildings and installations for the first Chinese Atomic test. Soldier goes into bunker through three steel doors.. Supplies unloaded from truck. Scientists in laboratories - primitive equipment. Instruments being prepared for test. Troops training, wearing gas masks - marching across sand at hottest time of the day. Troops at end of training session remove protective rubber suits and pour out pints of sweat. Comrades from the Cultural and Arts Troop dance with rifles entertaining troops - troops play football volleyball and basketball. Quartermaster Corp deliver supplies to troops. 16.09.33 Testing day nears and equipment and arms transported to site - military vehicles - tanks - aircraft - animals which are to subjected to nuclear explosion.
( vivisection )

LN 501-039 LN 501-039 LN 501-039 1964 - 1966 Col Sd 16.10.37
16.20.44 Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought - Development of China's Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over. Film grainy
Various shots equipment ready for first test - calender turns showing October 16th 1964. Control panel opened - various shots people getting ready for test - scientists - troops - countdown and explosion. Atomic mushroom from various angles. Cheering troops jumping up and down. People put on protective clothing and gas masks have examinations before entering contaminated area for recovery work - includes women. Helicoptors and trucks transport workers to contaminated area. Taking photographs of effects and removing equipment and animals. Trucks return and workers are cheered by comrades.
16.15.27 Premier Chou En-Lai announces sucess of nuclear test - audience clapping. Crowds fight for newspapers. Military personnel prepare vehicles and equipment for manoeuvres which are to take place in the contaminated test area. Propoganda - combat teams given political indoctrination - anti US voice over. Gas masks put on horses. May 14th 1965 Weather balloon launched. Men put on goggles in preparation for second test - explosion - nuclear device dropped from aircraft - effects of nuclear fallout seen on buildings - mushroom. Tactical manoeuvres carried out by military in contaminated area - tanks - troops wearing protective clothing in motorcycles and sidecars - cavalry on horseback - tanks artillery and soldiers. Cavarly firing rifles from galloping horses. Troops running behind tanks etc

LN 501-039 LN 501-039 LN 501-039 1964 - 1966 Col Sd 16.20.46
16.34.02 Great Victory of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought - Development of China's Nuclear Capability
Chinese titles and narration translated by voice over. Film grainy
Chinese military barracks at testing site for third nuclear test - painting red star on ground - portrait Mao - hanging propaganda banners and signs. Comrades at propoganda meeting study red book. Kitchen comrades preparing food for troops. Sandstorm over tents - soldiers struggle to keep tents pinned down. Covering Mig fighter plane with tarpaulin. Filling sandbags and digging out equipment from sand. Preparing test site - scientists and instruments. Preparing animals ( vivisection ) and civilian belongings and equipment which are to subjected to test. May 9th 1966- propaganda preached to troops. Control room of nuclear bunker with electrical equipment flashing - explosion of first nuclear bomb containing thermo nuclear materials. Flash as test house is destroyed. Mushroom cloud. Dog tied to stake in blast area frantically trying to get free but two caged dogs under ground feel much safer ! Chickes in cages - Monkey in cage. Exposed buildings damaged. Planting seeds in scorched earth following explosion. Seeds growing. Damaged crops. Narration says Khruschev and his revisionists were telling lies when they said nuclear bombs would destroy everything. Streets - civilians cheering and celebrating - getting newspapers. Reading pamphlets in various situations. Chinese lettering on pamphlets. Celebrating crowds - dancing - singing.

LN 501-083 220466 220466 1954 b/w Sd 02.45.25
02.55.17 You in Great Britain
Servicemen entering British Museum looking at copy of Magna Carta. Magna Carta Island. Various paintings / art of British history - portrait of Queen Victoria. Houses of Parliament, traffic over bridge. Good shots HOP from river Thames. Shots American Constitution and Bill of Rights. Anti Communist painting. Short flashback WWII scenes. Commentary refers to threat of communism over animated map showing location of American bases in England. American servicemen in cinema watching this film before they go to Britain to serve on bases.
02.48.44 Piccadilly Circus US servicemen crossing road with other pedestrians. Busy street scenes, crowds going down underground steps. Servicemen outside BOAC house Picadilly - pamphlets thrown down showing countries of the British Empire.
02.49.35 US servicemen outside Bank of England. Coastline and White cliffs of Dover. Agriculture - combine harvester at work, pan over fields. Various painings of merchant shipping lines.
02.50.40 Animated map showing trade routes. Docks, unloading sheep carcasses, loading of coal onto ship. Crates loaded and unloaded. Flashback WWI ( World War One ) - war graves.
02.51.43 Royal family on balcony of Buckingham Palace after Coronation of George VI. Flashback WWII, Spitfires - blitz - Coventry aftermath of bombing - London, aftermath of bombing, classic shot of double decker bus in hole. Bombed out factories and industrial areas. War graves.Montage of British inventions Radar scanners. Jet aircraft flyover - doctor injecting penicillen - Television mast - Atomic bomb.Sign " Get Your Ration Books Here " queue of women, policeman checking ration books. Interiors, clerks at desk issuing books. Shopping after war, queue outside butchers. Inside shop, cash register, housewives shopping. London docks - coal loaded onto ship. New York harbour with freight ships.
02.54.40 First International Automobile / motor Show - various shots cars with glamour models including Jaguar sports car.
02.55.00 Communist parades in Germany - posters of Stalin and Mao.

LN 501-093 220522 LN 501-093 1964 b/w Sd 02.40.24
02.42.22
Khruschev Resigns
Montage profile shots. K waving from train. K at meeting. K with Mao Tse Tung. K with Nasser. K at United Nations making speech and gesticulating - banging desk with fists. Khruschev waving with hat at parade in Red Square. Interiors meeting of Central Committee - Khruschev seated and applauded by audience and Brezhnev who has now taken over. Brezhnev making speech at microphone - some natsof.
18.42.02 Newspaper headlines and picture Khruschev. K's 70th birthday party

200027 180019 1949 B/W Sd 05.05.36
05.07.27
Russian newsreels post war
May Day parade in Peking 1949 - big posters Mao - Mao reviews parade. Crowds cheering and clapping. Huge flags carried. Chou en-lai watching. Schoolchildren in parade Posters of Mao and Stalin carried.

 

SN 501-027 220584 220584 1967 b/w Sd 10.19.16
10.20.03 News in Brief - China
Mass swim in Yangtze river - posters of Mao - balloons. Men swimming wearing uniforms and pushing floats with Mao posters - raising arms and quoting slogans. Chinese army taking part in swim carrying rifles.
Stunts.

 

 

LN 501-168 LN 501-168 LN 501-168 1960's c B/W Si 05.29.37
05.35.49 Selected Scenes from Revolution Betrayed
US troops unloading Cuban arms cache . Guns laid out on floor.
Avs coastline - huts / houses. Raid on Panama and Haiti by Castro forces. Negotiations between US and Castro officials for release of captured Cubans. Latin American street demonstrationsincluding El Salvador. Newspaper headlines re Castro / Cuba / Communism.
05.34.40 Montage shots Pre WWII Nazi rally. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler speaking. ECU, Fidel Castro ranting as he speaks. Prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp. Premier Khruschev and Mao Tse-tung of Red China waving at Red Square parade Russian troops marching. Red Chinese men and women with rifles, cheering. MS, Mao Tse-tung and Khruschev greeting each other. Crowds in streets holding signs. CU of one of the signs "Cuba Si Rusia No" (as it appears on sign).

 

 

607024 220674 220674 TRD B/W SD 06:47:24 - 06:55:57 Various Russian material
Russians withdrawing from North Korea. Mao out of train greets Molotov.
06:47:49 Burning of Brest Litovsk - troops through on horseback and horsedrawn carriages.
06:49:20 Short sequences various Russian personalities incl. Trotsky
06:50:15 Beggar / woman trying to sell underwear - street scenes - shoppers look in windows - trams. Street market
06:51:04 Depression scenes men on street corners. Beggars. Busy market.
06:51:49 Various Stalin - parades and meetings. 20th anniversary parade. Incl. huge inflatable? Stalin head unfurled.
06:53:24 Georgia - Stalin's mother walks down steps of Tbilisi, Georgia house - old man who was formerly a prince and a wine grower. Various old Georgian men.
06:54:27 Crowds at railway station ?
06:54:55 Women at teletype machine - women at telephone exchange
06:55:14 Meeting - men seated round table.
06:55:30 Various shots Stalin

625773 220675 220675 TRD B/W Sd/Sil 07:42:35 - 08:12:21 Early Russia
Pre revolution industry
WWI dead - WWI soldier
07:43:11 Freeing prisoners post revolution Petrograd
07:43:50 Trotsky in exile on the show trial of Zinoviev Kamenev Piat and Radek (speaking in English)
07:47:22 Poor tatty peasants
Wounded soldiers out of back of cart - casualties
07:48:50 1917 Milling crowds - cheering - leaflets - marching for the democratic republic - Mass funeral Mars Field - Exiles welcomed back from Siberia - Militia replaces Tsarist police - Bearded man makes speech about democracy
Executive committee of Workers and Soldiers Soviet - Soviet Mensheviks a rival government to the Provisional Gov.
07.51.40 Trotsky and Brest Litovsk (Joffe and Radek ?)
07:52:06 Civil War - bridge blown up at Kolchak- men mount and ride off - Trotsky by train
White firing squad - executions - graves
07:58:55 Civil war action in snow - Trotsky pushing back Yudenich outside Petrograd - Kronstadt ? - airplane dropping leaflets
White army in retreat
08:05:03 Lenin Funeral
08:06:10 Grain sacks being counted and checked
Stakhanov
08:07:05 Red Square Parade - Stalin on mausoleum
Trotsky in exile - Trotsky speech in English again
22nd Party Congress 1961. Khrushchev, Ho Chi Minh, Mao at USSR meeting (s).

LN 501-205 LN 501-205 LN 501-205 1945 B/W SIL 03:00:09 - 03:01:14 Mao Tse-Tung
Mao and other Chinese VIPs arrive by plane, greeted by VIPs including Ambassador Hurley?, US army officers present. CU Mao smiling.
03:01:15 Interior, large surrender table. Unid. Japanese signs the handing over treaty of the Japanese Army