Face of Red China, Part 1

Peer behind the bamboo curtain with Face of Red China, Part 1, a piercing archival documentary where Walter Cronkite’s steady voice guides Canadian reporter Gerald Clark through a 1958 lens of China’s Marxist dawn, filmed by Rolf Gilhausen. This mid-century reel hums—rice paddies ripple with communal toil, city streets pulse, factories churn, hands heave dams skyward sans machines, a nation reborn in sweat and red resolve. The camera sweeps—families fracture under new bonds, indoctrination hums in classrooms, Soviet shadows loom, steel rises from clay. Grainy frames hum—Cronkite probes, Clark unveils—a mid-20th-century lens on China’s vast upheaval, raw and relentless. Archival Moments revives this crimson chronicle—subscribe to witness more from the reels of history!