- Title: VM-1343B
- Summary: OUR FRIEND SUN-YAT SEN: DOCUMENTARY FILM TELLS OF CHINESE LEADER SUN YAT SEN AND REVOLUTION IN CHINA. (ENGLISH NARRATION)
- Description:00:22:26 - CU PHOTO BUST SHOT SUN YAT SEN (NOVEMBER 12, 1866 - MARCH 12, 1925). CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY AND POLITICAL LEADER WHO HAD A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE OVERTHROW OF THE QUING DYNASTY. WAS THE FIRST PROVINCIAL PRESIDENT WHEN THE CHINESE REPUBLIC WAS FOUNDED IN 1912. 00:22:39 - THREE CHINESE PEASANTS, INCLUDING ELDERLY WOMAN, PHYSICALLY PULL PLOW THROUGH FIELD (LIKE TEAM OF HORSES) AS ANOTHER DIRECTS IT. MS THREE CHINESE MEN STAND ON IRRIGATION WHEEL, LEAN ON IT (LIKE MEN LEANING OUT WINDOW), AND PEDAL THE WHEEL TO PROVIDE POWER, TO PUMP WATER INTO IRRIGATION DITCH. VARIOUS SHOTS OF OTHER CRUDE BACK BEAAKING, BUT INGENIOUS WAYS PEASANTS MOVED ATER THROUGH FARMLAND. PEASANT GUIDES OX AS IT PULLS PLOW THROUGH FLOODED FARMLAND. OTHER SHIRTLESS PEASANTS SLAM PILES OF HAY AGAINST GROUND TO DRY IT. LITTLE GIRL WALKS BEHIND OXEN, SWATS THEM WITH WHIP TO KEEP THEM MOVING TO TURN LARGE GRINDING WHEEL. 00:23:45 - PAN SUN YAT SEN'S OLD SCHOOL ROOM WITH DESKS AND POT-BELLY STOVE. CU PHOTO SUN YAT SEN WEARING TRADITIONAL CHINESE COSTUME. GROUP PHOTO OF SUN YAT SEN WITH FRIENDS. 00:24:12 - OLD FILM SHOWING JUNKS AND CRUDE HUTS ALONG WATERWAY. WORKERS LOADING AND UNLOADING SHIPS, PHYSICALLY CARRYING HEAVY GOODS HANGING FROM POLE BY TWO OR MORE MEN, DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE LOAD. MS MEN RUN CARRYING HUGE LUMBER BEAMS DOWN GANGPLANK OF JUNK, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER GROUP DOING SAME. VOICE OVER "A HUNGRY TRACTABLE MAN IS CHEAPER THAN ANY MACHINE". 00:24:31 - ABOVE SHOT HEAVY TRAFFIC OF RICKSHAWS, "THE TWO LEGGED HORSES", GOING BOTH WAYS ON STREET. MS MAN SEATED IN RICKSHAW GETTING SPEEDY RIDE THROUGH STREET. CU FEET OF RICKSHAW DRIVER RUNNING IN STREET. 00:24:39 - CINESE ROWING HIS JUNK IN HARBOR. ABOVE PAN VARIETY OF TRUNKS AND CONTAINERS ON DECK OF JUNK. CHINESE WOMAN HOLDING NUDE BOY IN ARMS AS SHE SITS AGAINST BARRED WINDOW IN ALLEWAY. VOICE OVER, "SUN YAT SEN CALLED HIS LAND, A LAND OF SLAVERY" . MS BUSY MARKET WITH CHINESE SIGNS AND BANNERS,. PEOPLE MILLING AROUND. 00:25:00 - ABOVE VIEW HUGE CROWD CHINESE PEOPLE WITH LONG PIGTAILS HANGING DOWN THEIR BACKS, FILL THE STREETS. VOICE OVER, "UNDER THREAT OF DEATH, EACH CHINESE WAS FORCED TO WEAR A PIGTAIL AS A SIGN OF SUBSERVIENCE TO THE MANCHU CONQUERORS". MS CHINESE WITH PIGTAILS WALK TO AND FRO ON CROWDED STREET. oddity. 00:25:21 - CU PHOTO SUN YAT SEN, WITH FRIENDS IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE WEAR, WHO FOUNDED THE SOCIETY FOR THE REVIVAL OF CHINA. LS VAST MOUNTAINS AND HILLS OF CHINA. 00:25:40 - DRAWING SHOWING RULER BEING CARRIED BY SERVANTS THROUGH STREET IN ENCLOSED MAN CARRIED CARRIAGES. VOICE OVER "THE RULERS ARE WALLOWING IN SLUGGISHNESS AND CORRUPTION". MS MEN, WOMEN. CHILDREN PEOPLE ON CROWDED, SQUALID ,STREET . 00:26:03 - PHOTO SUN YAT SEN IN WESTERN BUSINESS SUIT. MS W BATTLESHIP'S GUN TURRET TURNS UNTIL GUNS FACING CAMERA. OTHER WARSHIPS IN HARBOR. VARIOUS VIEWS FLAGS OF WESTERN NATIONS INCLUDING U. S. A., FLY OVER CHINESE BUILDINGS AS WESTERN COUNTRIES EXPLOIT AND GRAB FOR POWER IN CHINA. CU SIGN "BRITISH PROPERTY". GERMAN NAVAL OFFICERS IN GROUP PHOTO. VOICE OVER, "THE GERMAN INVADER REACHED OUT TO THE VERY EDGE OF THE WORLD". LARGE GERMAN SIGN WRITEN ON CLIFFS OF SHANTUN PROVINCE "OUR AGE OLD GERMAN LAND, FATHERLAND" . MONTAGE ZOOM IN PHOTOS OF VARIETY FOREIGN MILITARY MEN AND BUSINESS MEN IN CHINA. CU DAPPER WESTERNER WITH BLACK MOUSTACHE AND PIPE IN MOUTH, DIRECTS CHIMESE MAN TO DO TASK. VOICE OVER "GRAND FATHERS AND GREAT-GRANDFATHERS OF AGGRESSORS IN VIETNAM". propaganda 00:27:02 - CU FACE SHOT CHINESE MAN WITH STRAGGLY GOATEE; ( INTERESTING HARDENED FACE). 00:27:25 - VARIOUS SHOTS WESTERNERS PLAY GAME OF POLO USING RICKSHAWS AND CHINESE DRIVERS, MAN SWINGS AT BALL WITH POLO STICK, FALLS OUT OF RICKSHAW. VOICE OVER : "THERE IS NO END TO THIS HUMILATION". oddity 00:27:48 - VARIOUS DRAWINGS, DEPICTING THE "BOXER REBELLION", WHEN MILLIONS OF INFURIATED PEOPLE ROSE UP IN BATTLE AGAINST THE FOREIGNERS. DRAWING OF REBELLION LEADER CHONG PETCHET (?). OTHER PHOTOS OF WARRIOR CHILD AND WOMEN IN COSTUME.. MS PHOTO OF CAPTURED PATRIOTS (?), BEING LED TO THEIR EXECUTION. 00:28:43 - VARIOUS VIEWS WARSHIPS SPEEDING TO CHINA BY THOROUGHLY ALARMED WESTERN POWERS. MORE AND MORE TROOPS WERE SENT TO CHINA FROM AMERICA, FRANCE. CZARIST RUSSIA, GERMANY. MONTAGE PHOTOS OF TROOPS FROM VARIETY WESTERN COUNTRIES. 00:29:02 - MS DRAWING OF CHINESE MAN BEING BEHEADED AS WESTERN SOLDIERS LOOK ON. 00:29:08 - GROUP PHOTO WESTERN DIPLOMATS, DIGNITARIES, POSING AFTER MEETING WHICH PUT AN END TO THE LAST VESTIGES OF INDEPENDENCE OF CHINA, REDUCING CHINA TO A COLONY,DEVOID OF ANY RIGHTS. PHOTO SUN YAT SEN "NOW THEY ARE READY TO CUT UP CHINA INTO LITTLE BITS, DIVIDE THE SPOILS LIKE THIEVES...". VARIOUS VIEWS CHINESE PUPPET GOVERNORS POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH THEIR WESTERN MASTERS IN B/G. 00:30:08 - VARIOUS SHOTS 1905 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. CU PAGES OF CHINESE NEWSPAPER BY SUN YAT SEN, FLIP OVER AS VOICE OVER TRANSLATES THE WRITING, ".......... RUSSIA CAN HELP US BY SHOWING THE WAY FOR OUR REVOLUTION". TILT UP PAGE OF CHINESE WRITINGS. PHOTO SUN YAT SEN READING BOOK. PAN CARVINGS DEPICTING HU CHANG REBELLION (1911) WHICH QUICKLY SPRED TO SOUTH AND CENTRAL CHINA. VARIOUS OLD PHOTOS OF CHINESE SOLDIERS, SAILORS DURING REBELLION. REVOLUTIONALY TROOPS ROUTED THE MANCHU ARMY. THE MONARCHY IN CHINA COLLAPSED 00:31:55 - PHOTO OF SUN YAT SEN ASSUMING POST OF PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 00:32:07 - PICTURE OF LENIN, AS VOICE OVER QUOTES HIM ABOUT SUN YAT SEN. 00:32:25 - MEN RIDING IN RICKSHAWS AND OTHERS CARRIED IN COVERED CHAIRS BY BEARERS. 00:32:35 - CU TILT UP FROM FEET TO HEAD,PHGORO OF POWERFUL FEUDAL LORD OF NORTH CHINA WHO SUN YAT SEN WAS FORCED TO YIELD HIS POWER. "THIS MIDGET OF A GENERAL, AFTER FORCING HIMSELF INTO THE PRESIDENCY, DISOLVED PARLIAMENT, DECLAREED ALL REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS IN CHINA ILLEGAL, AND UNLEASHED A REIGN OF TERROR AGAINST THEM". 00:33:15 - LS ABOVE PAN CHIMESE CITYSCAPE. PHOTO SUN YAT SEN AND WIFE, SOON CHIN LING, WAS AT HIS SIDE THROUGHOUT THE STRUGGLE, DURING DEFEAT AND VICTORY. 00:33:37 - POLITICAL CARTOON WHEN WWI BROKE OUT, SHOWING JAPAN WITH HUGE KNIFE CARVING UP MAP OF CHINA AS WESTERNERS WATCH. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOOD SPREAD. 00:33:52 - AERIAL PAN HARBOR WITH SHIPS AND JUNKS, TO PEKING CITY BUILDINGS. ZOOM IN 1917 GROUP PHOTO WHEN SUN YAT SEN WAS MADE A GENERALISSIMO. ZOOM IN ON HIM IN GENERAL UNIFORM. HE WAS AGAIN THROWN OUT OF GOVERNMENT BY FOREIGNERS . POLITICAL CARTOON SHOWS HUGE FOREIGN GENERAL CONTROLLING CHINESE LIKE PUPPETS. CU PHOTO OF SUN YAT SEN AS HE FORMED FRIENDSHIP WITH RUSSIA IN 1917 DURING THEIR REVOLUTION. DRAWINGS SHOW CHINESE AND RUSSIAN WORKERS SHAKING AND EMBRACING. 00:34:50 - CU RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER SHOWS ARTICLE TITLED "CHINA'S WAR". PAGES FLIPPING IN RUSSIAN BOOK, WHICH HAILS REVOLUTION IN CHINA. CU LENIN ARTICAL IN RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER TELLS OF SUN YAT SEN. PHOTO OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST MAN WHO WAS SENT TO CHINA TO HELP CHINESE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. PHOTO OF ANOTHER RUSSIAN WHO MADE BOMBS FOR SUN YAT SEN. 00:36:16 - OLD FILM SHOWING "CONFERENCE OF VICTOR POWERS" AT VERSEILLE. THEY RESOLVED TO HAND OVER THE CHINESE PROVENCE OF CHANTUNG TO JAPAN. DRAWING SHOWING CHINESE STUDENTS AND OTHERS IN PROTEST. SUNN YAT SEN RODE THE WAVE OF THIS PROTEST TO REVIVED THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, CALLING IT THE KOUMINTANG (KMT). DRAWING SHOWING SEN MAKING PROTEST SPEECH. LS VARIOUS VIEWS INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS. PHOTO SHOWS SUN YAT SEN WITH ONE OF THE LEADERS OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, LEE CHE POW. CU PHOTO OF LEE. 00:37:38 - "1924" SUPER-IMPOSED ON RALLY AT FIRST SESSION OF THE KOUMINTANG WHICH FELL ON THE DAY LENIN DIED. ZOOM IN PHOTO SUN YAT SEN AT RALLY AS VOICE OVER READS COMMENTS SEN WROTE ABOUT LENIN 00:38:05 - RARE FILM SHOTS SHOWS SUN YAT SEN DURING HIS LAST DAYS, LEADING GROUP OF FOLLOWERS UP WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. ANOTHER SHOT SHOWS HIM WITH MILITARY OFFICERS AS HE PREPARED ARMY OF THE SOUTH TO MARCH AGAINST PEKING REACTIONARIES. LS CHINESE ARMY MARCHING WITH RIFLES. OTHER FILM SHOTS OF SUN YAT SEN. 00:38:56 - AN ILL SUN YAT SEN SHAKES HANDS WITH OTHER LEADERS AS HE SETS OUT TO UNITE THEM. CU MONTAGE PHOTOS OF SUN YAT SEN AT VARIOUS STAGES. DRAWING OF SUN YAT SEN ON HIS DEATH WITH WIFE AND OTHERS NEXT TO HIM AT BEDSIDE. 00:39:45 - MEMORIAL PORTRAIT OF SUN YAT SEN SURROUNDED BY FLOWERS. CU PHOTO OF HIS WIFE. 00:40:15 - AERIAL VIEW GREAT WALL OF CHINA. VARIOUS VIEWS RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACKING JAPANESE AT THE WALL DURING WWII IN 1945. WWII BATTLE SCENES. JAPANESE PRISONERS PILE UP THEIR RIFLES ON THE GROUND. THEY WERE HANDED OVER TO CHINESE REVOLUTIONARIES. 00:40:59 - SOVIET SOLDIERS KNEEL TO ONE KNEE TO HONOR SUN YAT SEN 00:41:26 - STATUE OF SUN YAT SEN. FLOWER WREATH PLACED AT HIS MEMORIUM STATUE. LS THOUSANDS OF BALLOONS RISE TO AIR IN SQUARE. 00:41:51 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1966
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1343B