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Colour of the Cat

Within the context of the challenge now being presented to the West by the new and rapidly developing industrial nations of the east, this episode speculates about China's future.
Series : Roads to Xanadu | Episode : 4 | Year : 1990 | Total Duration : 56.5 Minutes | Producer : John Merson, David Roberts, Tom Levenson (Assistant Producer WGBH Boston)
Director : David Roberts |
HA Chinese garden, pan to busy intersection next door, men holding bicycles with Marlboro sign in B/G, pan down office windows, Heinz baby food billboard, VS billboards for cars, washing machines, interior of shopping mall, women shopping in fashion accessory shop with a young girl
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Access No. 125223 | 31 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS television commercials superimposed over INT of mall,
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Access No. 125224 | 21 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © CCTV / NFSA | Colour |
View from elevator as it heads up, Narrator John Merson talks to camera in glass elevator, HA views of city centre, Merson to camera, MS man on bicycle rides past billboard for Warrior cars,
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Access No. 125225 | 1 min 21 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS television commercial for Panda TV,
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Access No. 125226 | 8 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © CCTV | Colour |
Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev in China on official visit seated with Deng Xiaoping, HA student demonstrators, MS tanks on the street, WS square (Tiananmen Square?),
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Access No. 125227 | 17 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Photo - Chinese President Deng Xiaoping
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Access No. 125228 | 4 secs | 1980s | China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS people & bicycles on the street, people at conference table discussing radios at the state electronics firm Metto, VS circuit boards being copied at Shanghai factory,
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Access No. 125229 | 2 mins 4 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, Shanghai, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Metto Television Commercial for a radio
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Access No. 125230 | 58 secs | 1980s | China | © Shanghai Television / METTO | Colour |
Waterwheel, men carrying baskets down to boat, VS waterwheel used for digging holes, kilns, VS pottery at De Hua Pottery Teapots, Ext farmhouse, VS waterwheel used for irrigation, man ploughs his field using a bullock,
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Access No. 125231 | 1 min 50 secs | 1980s | China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS night neon lights, advertising in shops at night, Panasonic box carried, VS people shopping at night, electronics on shelf, VS night street & neon advertising signs, Int Metto radio factory in Shanghai China, VS workers making circuit boards, CU sign in Chinese & English stating the company's motto, circuit boards & components for radios. Mass production of electronics
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Access No. 125232 | 1 min 39 secs | 1980s | Tokyo, Japan, Shanghai,China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - people on bicycles riding past the Forbidden City in Beijing, riding to camera, archway pan up to huge portrait of Mao Tse Tung, INT building portraits of Joseph Stalin & Lenin on the wall, HA Tiananmen Square with pedestrians,
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Access No. 125233 | 19 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Professor Ezra Vogel, Harvard University
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Access No. 125234 | 35 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS people shopping in Chinese television store, vox pops with shoppers re consumerism, people carrying out TVs from the store, HA street scene with crowd of people
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Access No. 125235 | 1 min 8 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © BBC | Colour |
Archival Footage - Train along track with picture of Mao Tse Tung on the front surrounded by flags, Mao as a young man shaking hands with others, HA mass rally, Mao and Chou en Lai on stage at rally October 1949, CU cheering supporter, MS Mao waves to the crowd, HA military march past, Mao & Chou en Lai watching,
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Access No. 125236 | 39 secs | 1940s | China | © Educational & Television Films Ltd | B&W |
Interview Professor Wang Gungwu, Vice Chancellor Hong Kong University, cut to billboard of young communists, Interview Prof. Gungwu
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Access No. 125237 | 1 min | 1980s | Hong Kong | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Poster in crowd showing Mao Tse Tung & Joseph Stalin shaking hands,Politburo, Stalin & Mao posing for photos, Chinese & Soviet representatives signing documents, VS Soviet advisors & engineers in China talking to workers, men welding an industrial cylinder, railway car, VS power station construction site, Chinese propaganda film depicting a Lenin lookalike, VS Soviet science being taught in China, CU women students
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Access No. 125238 | 1 min 25 secs | 1950s | Moscow, USSR, China | © China Documentary Unit | B&W |
Archival Footage - students working in laboratory,
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Access No. 125240 | 7 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Interview - Professor Cao Zongxun, Peking University - cut to Russian text book, Interview Professor,
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Access No. 125241 | 30 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Steel workers at opening of Steel Works - Chinese & Soviet shaking hands
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Access No. 125244 | 25 secs | 1950s | China | © China Documentary Unit | B&W |
Archival Footage - Rice Harvesting by hand,
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Access No. 125246 | 20 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Illustration - Commune members turning unusable hillside into agricultural land
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Access No. 125247 | 13 secs | 1950s | China | © People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing | Colour |
Illustration - Commune members with shovels in front of small house - pan down to demonstration
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Access No. 125248 | 8 secs | 1950s | China | © People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing | Colour |
Archival Footage - Commune workers walk towards camera,
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Access No. 125250 | 8 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Illustration - Commune members working the fields
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Access No. 125251 | 9 secs | 1950s | China | © People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing | Colour |
Archival Footage - threshing rice
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Access No. 125252 | 5 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Illustration - Chinese peasants working beside road harvesting crops as wagons & trucks carry away the grain.
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Access No. 125253 | 10 secs | 1950s | China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival Footage - HA masses of people building an earth dam, VS people carrying soil in baskets over their shoulders, men pounding the ground with a large boulder on poles
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Access No. 125265 | 36 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Interview - Professor Roderick MacFarquar, Harvard University
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Access No. 125267 | 55 secs | 1980s | Boston, USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - people digging up the mud along irrigation canal, MS woman uses chopsticks to look for snails which carried a deadly disease
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Access No. 125268 | 24 secs | 1950s | China | © China documentary Unit | B&W |
Illustration - Young communists carrying banners, workers in steel forging plant
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Access No. 125269 | 13 secs | 1950s | China | © People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing | Colour |
Archival Footage - MS people in commune looking at chalk drawing on the ground, brick furnaces in commune, VS smelting iron in the furnaces, winching fuel to stoke the fires, workers stoke a row of small furnaces
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Access No. 125270 | 31 secs | 1950s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Archival Footage - Chinese workers walking along ridge with tools
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Access No. 125271 | 8 secs | 1960s | China | © Visnews | B&W |
Archival Footage - Chinese workers walking along dusty road
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Access No. 125272 | 8 secs | 1960s | China | © BBC | B&W |
Archival Footage - Nikita Khruschev at podium waving his right fist around
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Access No. 125273 | 10 secs | 1960s | China | © Visnews | B&W |
Newspaper article - headline reads ÒMr Khrushchev's Outburst Surprised ChinaÓ - pan down to photo in the paper of Khrushchev & Mao together, VS other newspaper headlines concerning the rift between The Soviet Union & China
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Access No. 125274 | 11 secs | 1960s | China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Interview - Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, Australian Ambassador to China (1973-1976)
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Access No. 125275 | 38 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - old woman & others getting food ration cards, VS people eating at a soup kitchen, Reconstruction of city after WWII by civilians & soldiers, building houses. WWII
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Access No. 125276 | 23 secs | 1940s | Japan | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival Footage - homeless people sitting on the side of the road scratching themselves. WWII
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Access No. 125277 | 5 secs | 1940s | Japan | © NHK International | B&W |
Archival Footage - WS large building at intersection, MS General Douglas Macarthur walks out of building, salutes & gets into car, car drives away, MS backs of people at newsstand, MS Democracy newspaper, MS people reading newspaper. WWII
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Access No. 125278 | 17 secs | 1940s | Japan | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival Footage - steel works, molten steel,
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Access No. 125279 | 6 secs | 1940s | Japan | © Film World | B&W |
Archival Footage - Car manufacturing at Nissan plant - assembly line
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Access No. 125280 | 4 secs | 1940s | Japan | © John E Allen Inc | B&W |
Archival Footage - molten steel on a roller, sparks from molten steel, steel cylinders cooling
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Access No. 125281 | 5 secs | 1940s | Japan | © Film World | B&W |
Interview - Edwin Reischauer, US Ambassador to Japan (1961-66)
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Access No. 125282 | 37 secs | 1980s | USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Ext Mitsui Main Building, sign, America n officers enter building, Japanese workers sorting through documents, officers watching, CU document, documents packed into boxes & sealed, boxes onto trucks outside & truck drives off, HA union crowds in the street with placards, Meeting of union delegates, voting, Unionists & police clash outside, injured man treated, Riot police & strikers pushing in crowd
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Access No. 125283 | 1 min 16 secs | 1950s | Japan | © NHK International | B&W |
Interview - Edwin Reischauer, US Ambassador to Japan (1961-66)
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Access No. 125284 | 25 secs | 1980s | USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - bomb production. Pan along bombs lined up in factory , Men & women making bombs in factory, molten casing stacked, workshop, VS car show 1952 , Japanese civilians & American servicemen looking at cars, Nissan display, Japanese baseball game watched by US soldiers & Japanese civilians, MS Miss Universe from Japan, audience applauds, Japanese Big Band, NHK Television camera, MCU woman singing on television, MS family watching TV,
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Access No. 125285 | 1 min 25 secs | 1950s | Japan | © NHK International | B&W |
Photograph - Wartime Electronics Engineers who had produced Japan's first tape recorder - Ibuka & Morita - 1946
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Access No. 125286 | 8 secs | 1940s | Japan | © Sony Corporation, Japan | B&W |
VS large reel to reel tape recorder
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Access No. 125287 | 9 secs | 1980s | Japan | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph men who developed the transistor - Shockley, Bardeen & Brittain
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Access No. 125288 | 5 secs | 1940s | USA | © Sony Corporation, Tokyo | B&W |
CU transistor component to radio
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Access No. 125289 | 2 secs | 1980s | USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph from newspaper of Ibuka Masaru & Morita Akio, Morita enroute to the USA to obtain a license to produce transistors in Japan
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Access No. 125290 | 15 secs | 1950s | Japan | © Sony Corporation, Tokyo | B&W |
Narrator John Merson talks to camera with antiquated electronics equipment including the first Sony transistor radio & the first television set that utilised transistors
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Access No. 125291 | 1 min 4 secs | 1980s | Japan | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Interior of television factory, mobile television truck, crowd gathers to watch TV, Sumo Wrestling on television, Photographs of Dr Deming & students
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Access No. 125292 | 1 min 2 secs | 1950s | Japan | © NHK International | B&W |
Interview - Professor Seymour Melman, Columbia University New York re quality control in Japanese manufacturing
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Access No. 125293 | 1 min 1 sec | 1980s | New York, USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - camera production line, Radio production line, technicians, transistor radios & televisions
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Access No. 125294 | 1 min 22 secs | 1950s | Japan | © Visnews | B&W |
Archival Footage - car assembly line, car being sanded
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Access No. 125295 | 12 secs | 1950s | Japan | © NHK International | B&W |
Archival Footage - car assembly line, CU spinning wheel on car, CU speedometer moving up
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Access No. 125296 | 9 secs | 1950s | Japan | © Visnews | B&W |
Tractor drives through gates of Sichuan Tractor Factory, pan to sign on gate, VS production of small tractor, MS Walking Tractor demonstrated outside, Narrator John Merson talk to camera with small tractors
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Access No. 125297 | 1 min 32 secs | 1980s | Sichuan, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Walking tractor used to harvest crop, tractor ploughing a field with bullock plough in B/G
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Access No. 125298 | 14 secs | 1980s | Sichuan, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Tractor drives down road piled high with straw, Tractor pulling trailer with pigs inside WS road with huge piles of straw on the back of tractors, Tractors carry straw boxes and wooden logs
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Access No. 125299 | 25 secs | 1980s | Sichuan, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Mao Tse Tung applauding, young women of the revolution chanting at rally,
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Access No. 125300 | 9 secs | 1960s | China | © Melbourne University, Institute of Education | B&W |
Illustrations - Mao Tse Tung with his hand raised at large rally - pan to crowd, Poster encouraging youth to attack capitalism, Black man (probably representing America) holding crumpled banner in his hands, Rally addressed by Deng Xiaoping,
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Access No. 125301 | 24 secs | 1960s | China | © People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing | Colour |
Archival Footage - mass rally of school girls waving Mao's little red book, MS school boys with book, MS Mao Tse Tung with hand raised to the crowd, MCU girl holding book and crying, MS pro Mao demonstration down the street with banners & photographs of Mao, dancing with red flags, demonstration moves down the street
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Access No. 125302 | 34 secs | 1960s | China | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Photograph - Chinese scholars paraded through the streets in dunces hats by communist crowd,
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Access No. 125303 | 14 secs | 1960s | China | © World Wide Photos Inc | B&W |
Archival Footage - people tending fields with photograph of Mao Tse Tung in F/G - pan across field as people pick crop, planting & hoeing by hand,
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Access No. 125304 | 17 secs | 1960s | China | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
Archival Footage - huge statue of Mao in midst of rally, pan mass rally, HA portraits in mass rally, WS huge number of people marching by, MS soldier's parade,
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Access No. 125305 | 19 secs | 1960s | China | © Visnews | B&W |
Interview - Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, Australian Ambassador to China (1973-76)
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Access No. 125306 | 50 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - MS Deng Xiaoping along in open top car, POV of soldiers lining the road as car drives by, MS Deng waving from car, WS car drives past assembled military , HA cars along,
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Access No. 125307 | 26 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © Film Polski | Colour |
Archival Footage - Fruit & Vegetable market, people buying and selling, Interior of bank office , people using abacus to add up
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Access No. 125308 | 37 secs | 1980s | China | © NFSA | Colour |
MS radios on display, EXT Shanghai 20th Radio Factory, VS production line for making printed circuit boards, MS liquid used to make circuit boards that causes pollution, VS engineer and his pollution control system, Narrator John Merson talks to camera, VS students at factory school classroom,
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Access No. 125309 | 2 mins 49 secs | 1980s | Shanghai, China | © NFSA | Colour |
interview Wang Longji, Technical Director, Shanghai 20th Radio Factory (In Chinese)
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Access No. 125310 | 34 secs | 1980s | Shanghai,, China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Chinese engineers from Shanghai 20th Radio Factory training in Australia, practical & theory in classroom,
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Access No. 125311 | 1 min 18 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Professor Zhu Rongji, Vice Minister, State Economic Commission (In Chinese)
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Access No. 125312 | 28 secs | 1980s | China | © NFSA | Colour |
Sign for the Opening Ceremony of Shanghai Printronics Circuit Corp, Contracts signed between Chinese & Australian delegate, shaking hands with Chinese & Australian flags in F/G, Circuit Boards being printed, Zhu Rongji with other officials at factory, MS female worker pushing buttons, circuit boards printing, officials watching process, circuit board comes out of machine
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Access No. 125313 | 57 secs | 1980s | Shanghai, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Interview Professor Fang Lizhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (In Chinese)
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Access No. 125314 | 36 secs | 1980s | Beijing China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Row of helicopters on the ground, WS helicopters take off one at a time from the line, VS helicopters flying low
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Access No. 125315 | 31 secs | 1960s | South Vietnam | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival Footage - B-52s dropping bombs, MS bombs leaving plane, POV aerial shot of bombs exploding on the ground
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Access No. 125316 | 15 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Visnews | B&W |
Archival Footage - Robot used to weld car components,
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Access No. 125317 | 15 secs | 1950s | Detroit, USA | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival Footage - VS Car assembly line, Ford production line.
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Access No. 125318 | 27 secs | 1960s | Detroit, USA | © BBC | B&W |
Interview Professor Seymour Melman, Columbia University, New York
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Access No. 125319 | 42 secs | 1980s | New York, USA | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - VS robotic car production line.
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Access No. 125320 | 22 secs | 1980s | Japan | © Austrade | Colour |
Archival Footage - aerial shot of huge number of cars in parking lot at wharf as cars are driven onto ship
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Access No. 125321 | 13 secs | 1980s | Japan | © NHK International | Colour |
Archival Footage - space rocket on launch pad, launch on television screen, watched by technician, CU faces of technicians watching the launch, WS launch of rocket, INT control room, WS rocket launched, LA rocket moves into the sky,
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Access No. 125322 | 38 secs | 1980s | China | © China Documentary Unit | Colour |
CU floating metallic disc - super conductor, VS liquid nitrogen poured into vat, VS professor & researcher in laboratory working on super conductors, CU computer screen, disc placed over liquid nitrogen, CU disc floating just above the nitrogen, CU face of professor, CU disc pan to face of professor watching it, MS people walking into Beijing West City District Civil Science & Technology Industrialists' Society, INT people gather around table, they are scientists who have set up as private consultants
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Access No. 125323 | 1 min 45 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Steel works, sparks flying and workers in protective suits. Steel commune in Manchuria.
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Access No. 125324 | 16 secs | 1960s | Manchuria, China | © BBC | Colour |
INT meeting of scientists who have become independent consultants, one discusses his work at a steel works
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Access No. 125325 | 9 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan over Jinjiang or ÒStove CityÓ showing ceramics factories, pan across ceramics outside factory, INT factory with craftsmen working with hand tools, Ceramic tiles in wooden crates, Committee members, fuel for kilns being piled up, MS fuel (dried wood) put into kiln, WS smoking chimney with ceramic pots in F/G, WS houses for workers, EXT ceramic factory, VS pieces of rock being sorted & chipped into bricks, MS woman carrying load of river mud in baskets over r her shoulders, EXT brick houses, MS decorations on houses, EXT large house, INT house family having tea, MS Confucian altar in house with tape recorder in the middle,
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Access No. 125326 | 3 mins 12 secs | 1980s | Jinjiang, China | © NFSA | Colour |
VS people dancing at disco, intercut with people working in the radio factory, MS man walking along street with tape recorder in his hand
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Access No. 125327 | 40 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - VS Metto Radio advertising, people buying radio in shop, Metto commercial, MS shoppers in the street, man buys radio, Commercial
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Access No. 125328 | 35 secs | 1980s | Shenzhen, China | © Shanghai Television | Colour |
Archival Footage - Student rally - 1989 in Tiananmen Square
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Access No. 125329 | 19 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival Footage - May 4th 1919 - VS student demonstration in Tiananmen Square, students carrying placards,
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Access No. 125330 | 21 secs | 1910s | Beijing, China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival Footage - 1989 tank crashes through a barricade in Tiananmen Square, WS huge crowd of students running from soldiers with rifles, tank along, man arrested by soldiers, having identification photo taken, people running alongside bicycle carrying wounded protester, MS woman crying being held up by others, WS Goddess of Democracy statue in square pulled down
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Access No. 125331 | 37 secs | 1980s | Beijing, China | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
People walking on the street
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Access No. 125332 | 5 secs | 1980s | Shanghai, China | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival Footage - Metto Radio television commercial
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Access No. 125333 | 15 secs | 1980s | China | © Shanghai Television | Colour |
VS fun theme park, WS pagoda narrator John Merson stands on balcony talking to camera, CU face of young boy , CU face of young man, CU profile of man smoking cigarette, CU faces, MS cart carrying people goes by, VS panda statue outside theme park, John Merson talks to camera with theme park in B/G
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Access No. 125334 | 1 min 12 secs | 1980s | Shanghai, China | © NFSA | Colour |
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