PROCLAMATION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Kuomintang troops are taken prisoner marking the end of the Chinese Civil War. Weapons are left standing still and the new flag of the People's Republic of China is raised. Mao Zedong shakes hands with people in the crowd and meets with dignitaries. A brief subliminal message shows just a few frames of an atomic bomb mushroom cloud spliced in with the other images.
Date: October 1, 1949 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:00:55:00, No Audio
DRAGON BOAT PARADE Dragon boat parade in Toronto's China Town. Colorful costumes and parade floats fill downtown city streets. Participants maneuver chinese dragons through the streets. Exterior of restaurant and store fronts in China town.
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Date: June 15, 2003 - COLOR Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:00:39:00, With Audio
CHINESE CIVIL WAR Images from the Chinese Civil War show a crowd of starving peasants with outstretched hands trying to grab food that is being distributed. They sit in the streets, eating their bread. There is also a shot of an elderly man and boy talking to an official whose back is turned to the camera.
ETHNIC ORIGIN Ethnic Origin: An aerial helicopter view shows a large harbor city. Large bodies of water dot the landscape. Camera lock off of an urban street in winter. Pedestrians bundled in winter coats walk down the frozen streets. A young couple stroll down a hospital corridor holding their new born infant. A shop owner in China Town stocks his outdoor produce crates.
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Date: January 20, 2003 - COLOR Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:00:36:00, With Audio
CHINESE WOMEN VOTE Sequence of several MS and CU showing Chinese voters (mostly female) going to the polls, being given ballots, and voting, presumably for the first time.
SARS - TAIWAN The World Health Organization removes Taiwan, China from its list of SARS infected areas to avoid. Paramedics load patient into ambulance. Taiwanese celebrate by breaking ice sculpture letters with hammers. People in surgical masks walk the streets of Taiwan. Pallbearers carry a coffin in Toronto. Hospital staff wears surgical masks.
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Date: July 8, 2003 - COLOR Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:00:46:00, With Audio
ALLIES AID INDIA Averell Harriman heads a U.S. delegation to India to study the country's need in her war with China. Meanwhile, Canadian and U.S. transport planes arrive to ferry supplies and troops to India's northern frontier. In Pakistan, Ayub Khan greets Heinrich Luebke of Germany.
Date: November 26, 1962 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:01:11:00, No Audio
INDIAN WOMEN CONTRIBUTE TO WAR EFFORT Indian women contribute to the war effort against China's invasion of their country. Women donate their jewelry and dozens flock to centers to donate blood for shipment to the northern front.
Date: November 19, 1962 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:01:05:00, No Audio
BUDDHIST PRIESTS EXORCISE THE SPIRITS Workers in the Murray House in Hong Kong complained that ghosts were defacing blueprints and interfering with electronic equipment so the Chinese government called in Buddhist priests to exorcise the spirits. Crowds watch from below while the media photographs the proceedings.
GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN HONG KONG 100,000 people show up in Hong Kong to protest government legislation that would undermine local freedoms, speech, press and the right to assemble. The protest overshadows the official commemoration of Hong Kong's hand over from British to Chinese sovereignty.
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Date: July 1, 2003 - COLOR Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:00:18:00, With Audio
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