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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Informational film on development of Communist China and relationship to West. Produced by Dept. of Defense in 1967. Picture of Lin Biao (0:16). Narrator explains from Western perspective China’s plan for world revolution (0:31). Title credit (0:45). Pagodas (1:10). Great Wall of China (1:20) and stone statues (1:40). Camels crossing the desert (1:50). 20th century Chinese market (2:10). Historic footage of human powered agricultural equipment (2:30). Colonization of China by Europe (2:50). Sun Yat-sen (3:23). Comparison to George Washington (3:31). Large crowds and protests (3:44). Birth of Chinese communist party, Mao Zedong at founding conference in 1921 (3:52). Chinese peasants writing (4:05). Armed Chinese Red Guard (4:15). Chiang Kai-shek (4:22). Chinese Nationalist soldiers marching (4:25). Footage from Mao Zedong long march (5:30). Caves of Yan’an (6:05). Woman using rice flails (6:18). Communists studying (6:25). Communists working with peasants (6:50). Chinese peasants dancing (7:05). Chiang Kai-shek writing (7:16). Japanese soldiers marching (7:20). Man running pulling rickshaw (7:35). Historic Chinese policeman (7:45). Mitsubishi Ki-21 flying in formation (7:53). Bombing of Shanghai 1937 (8:00). Running Japanese soldiers (8:05). Wounded Chinese civilians (8:20). Mao Zedong outside house (8:35). Mao Zedong portrait on train (8:40). Marching red army troops with Mao Zedong portrait (8:55). Surrender of Japanese to Chinese in 1945 (9:20). Impoverished Chinese eating grass (9:35). Mao Zedong launches war of national liberation (10:00). Communist troops practice with Arisaka Type 99 rifle and Type 30 bayonet (10:03). Chinese communists practice bayonet fighting (10:21). Marching Chinese soldiers outside Great Wall (10:41). Chinese camouflaged guerrillas (10:50). Chinese communist soldier using megaphone (11:05). Soldier firing ZB-26 machine gun (11:05). Chinese soldiers firing Type 92 infantry artillery (11:09). Burning Chinese villages (11:15). War of annihilation and trains with soldiers (11:23). Mass Chinese troop movements (11:43). Gongchen tank in battle (11:51). Mass troop advances (12:12). Gongchen tanks (12:20). Troops advance over railroad bridge (12:28). Train with Mao Zedong portrait (12:33). Crowd with Mao Zedong posters (12:36). Hong Qi “Red Flag Car” (12:41). Mao Zedong shaking hands (12:43). Military parade with Gongchen tanks, artillery, and procession of Tianjin or Shanghai jeeps (12:51). Female soldier on horse (12:58). Large poster of Chiang Kai-shek. Footage from Taiwan (13:13). Mao Zedong announces people’s republic of China (13:55). Korean War (14:40). United Nations troops in South Korea (15:00). Red Chinese Army supporting North Korean troops (15:10). Combat footage in Korea (15:27). Korean Armistice Agreement signed by General William Harrison Jr. and Nam Il (15:49). Celebrating Chinese troops (16:05). Mao Zedong arrives in Moscow (16:40). Aerial footage of Moscow (16:44). Signing of Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Alliance and Mutual Assistance by Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin (16:58). Nikita Khrushchev announces De-Stalinization (17:20). Moscow State University (17:47). Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by Dean Rusk, Andrei Gromyko, and Alec Douglas-Home (18:20). Marching Chinese soldiers (18:50). Chinese ambassadors arrive in Havana, Cuba (19:19). Fidel Castro greets Chinese envoys (19:22). Raul Castro decorated by Chinese military officials (19:35). Stadium demonstration in Albania (19:53). Large Chinese political rally (20:14). Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah greets Chinese envoys (20:30). Zhou Enlai speaks with Kwame Nkrumah (20:44). Women with rifles (21:00). Zhou Enlai meets with Pakistani President Ayub Khan (21:13). China making alliances with Indonesia (21:40). Lin Biao “Long live the victory of the People’s War” (22:15). Animated depiction of Red China’s plan for global revolution (22:54). Viet Cong guerrilla fighters (23:30). Viet Cong child soldier (23:39). Viet Cong building pit-fall booby trap (23:50). Chained dead civilian prisoners, evidence of Communist war crimes (24:10). Crowd marching with portraits of Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong (24:25). Evidence of failure of Communist China influence (24:54). Crowd of protesting Ghanaians (25:00). Storming of Chinese embassy by students in Indonesia (25:17). Fidel Castro (25:30). Manila Summit Conference of 1966 (25:45). Concluding remarks (26:36). U.S. soldiers helping Vietnamese civilians construct building (26:53). Liberty bell and U.S. Constitution (27:06). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
