China on Film, Episode 2
Description
The second episode of China on Film flaunts the first-ever color film recorded of China, capturing the sacred and the profane in 1930’s Beijing. Other filmmakers show Shanghai in the jazz age, but these film reels reveal a China that might have been—China before the Japanese invaded. The cameras document the struggle for China. Just as Shanghai’s Nanjing Road was filmed in 1900, so it was filmed 50 years later, as the victorious People’s Liberation Army parades along it, Mao Zedong’s portrait to the fore.
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46 min 47 sec
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