Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Great Red Chinese propaganda film regarding the political and ideological influence of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) and how it led to the creation of China's atomic weapons program.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Military preparations for nuclear blast. Men digging, moving dirt. Construction of false town
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Military preparations for nuclear blast. Lab work in a tent, chemistry.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Military preparations for nuclear blast. Pan across bomb casings. Pan across instruments set up to record the bomb test.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Military preparations for nuclear blast. Soldiers performing a drill. Soldiers marching in the desert.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Women bring water to soldiers. Women in cultural arts troupe dance (with guns on their backs) to provide a form of recreation/relaxation for the military personnel. Also an impromptu soccer game. Playing basketball. Rest and relaxation
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Soldiers getting supplies. Men sewing uniforms in the field.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Men in trucks moving equipment to the nuclear bomb test site. Dummies in uniforms are placed on the test site. Animals in cages are placed on the test site. Various equipment to be used to measure the bomb.
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
1st nuclear bomb test (atomic bomb) takes place on 10/16/64. Pages of a Chinese calendar. Shots of clocks and equipment. Atomic blast with great shots of mushroom cloud, Cheering onlookers jump up and down knowing test is "successful"
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Recovery workers including women suit up and go into contaminated area to assess damage and record data from the nuclear bomb test (atomic bomb). Recovery workers return joyously
Great Victory of Mao Zedong's Thoughts aka Mao's Little Red Video
Premier Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai) announces success of the first nuclear bomb (atomic bomb) test to the public