DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category. The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage. The documentary film was made for television in 1967 -- during the Cold War era. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Theodore H. White, directed by Mel Stuart, edited by William T. Cartwright and produced by David L. Wolper. Production costs were funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. White's access to important political figures of the time allowed him to create some rare footage, which included the wedding of Chang Kai-shek and the funeral of Sun Yat-sen. The film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category. As evidenced by his commentary throughout the films, White, Time magazine's China <b>...</b>
Part 2. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark Nelson. Playlist for A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: www.youtube.com
Young ladies change into bathing costumes (daringly but decently) and cavort in the river water. A testament to the new horizons opened up by the pleasure-loving and exuberant 1920's. A short 9.5mm Pathé film, one of the first published for home projection. Des jeunes filles changent de leurs robes en maillots de bain, à peine abritées de la caméra, et gambadent avec exubérance dans une rivière. Un testament aux nouveaux mœurs des années vingt. Un petit film Pathé Baby 9,5mm pour « le cinéma chez soi ». ----------------------------------------------------------- What a puzzling little film this is! It is a relief to see the girls free to go out an express themselves in a physical way, after seeing the well wrapped-up and staid women in most of the other early Pathé documentaries. They are full of life and exist physically, not hampered staid conventions of bourgeois behaviour - but on the other hand they are certainly objectified by the camera, which they are probably acting up to. Has anyone in real life ever seen girls gambolling in quite the way they do here? Well, one place is the Pathé documentary on Biarritz: I suspect that in both cases there was a little direction going on, with a view to what would please the male eye. And the subtitle at the end of the film is pretty shocking to modern eyes: we are asked to suppose that the camera was hidden and had the lubricious eye of a faun! So, here at the very beginning of women's freedom to express themselves in <b>...</b>
Part 3. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark Nelson. Playlist for A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: www.youtube.com
"Mujeres para un mundo mejor" - "Women for a better world". This video, realised by Mayte Pascual for the Spanish Public Television, won the 2008 III Harambee International Award. The documentary shows the importance of the role of women in the development of the continent.
