| Tragic Exodus: Red China Expels Eight Nuns | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1752 |
| Catalog #: | 426039 | |
| Clip Number: | 426039-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-073-01 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Peking, China | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Crying BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Exhaustion INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/ASIA: China, Beijing ( Peking ) RELIGION: Christianity, Roman Catholic RELIGION: Missionaries RELIGION: Nuns | |
| Description: | Eight European nuns, accused of spying in Peking, are expelled from Red China. One collapses at the border and is taken across on a baggage handcart. Later she dies. Their 100 year old school for diplomat's children in Peking is mobbed and damaged by Red Youth Guard who hate all foreign influences. Peking, China A fenced off compound (barbed wire) in China. MS - Nuns escorted by the Red Chinese at a railroad depot. MS - What looks like a heap of laundry turns out to be a nun laying on a baggage handcart. MS - The nun that was on the handcart is helped to walk by two other nuns. ECU - Two nuns. ECU - Hands held in prayer. ECU - Complete mental anguish is the expression on this nun’s face. ECU - A very ill nun. ECU - Nun wiping her face with a hankie and she breaks down crying. | |
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