THE HUMBLE FORCE

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Year

1980

NFU Picture/Sheet No.

599

Technical details

Colour 50 mins.

Cat. Refs. 1984-85 p.17; 1986-87 p.21.

Viewing copies

VHS BITC (Preview copy)- BITC 309

Full Description

From both ends and on each side of the Great Wall, Chinese people tell their stories which span the revolution. As the most travelled European in China, Rewi Alley provides background to the diverse insights into work, culture and events in China before and after the revolution. Sequences of Tai Chai, a Shanghai film studio, the Yangtse River, the Old Silk Road, and the giant Sleeping Buddha(recorded by Marco Polo), the remote Yumen oil fields, Mongolian horse herdsmen and wrestlers are linked by interviews with old peasant revolutionaries, a Yuman oil worker, and a silk filature worker; telling from within China some of the human events which chart the complex and radical changes which made the China of today. A National Film Unit/Phase Three Films Co-production

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