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Song of the Rivers
Title
Song of the Rivers 1954, 1954.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical Description
online resource (video file 1:28:29) : Sound, Black and White.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Sponsored by The World Federation of Trade Unions.
Contributors: Shostakovich, Dmitri; Pozner, V.; Kartun, Derek; McCrindle, Alex; Ensink, Ella; Reusch, Heinz; Wegner, Hans; Huisken, Joop; Menegoz, Robert.
Production Company: DEFA.
Reproduction of: GDR (German Democratic Republic), 1954.
Description based on online resource (viewed on 19 December, 2018).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
A compilation film sponsored by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) about their forthcoming conference in Vienna in October 1953. The six major world rivers - the Amazon, the Ganges, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Volga and the Yangtse - are joined by a seventh metaphorical river, the working class movement flowing inexorably towards the Third Congress of the WFTU. The film opens with a number of different nationalities of workers working together on different projects in agriculture, heavy industry and infrastructure, and shows their enjoyment in their work. The second sequence is in stark contrast, and depicts the labouring and working classes around the world living in deprived conditions and engaged in back-breaking labour. Footage of the middle and upper classes are contrasted with the poverty and misery of the working classes.
Variant and related titles
Socialism in film: the cold war and international propaganda. Module II, Newsreels & cinemagazines.
Format
Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2019
Series
Diplomatic & Political Newsreels
Newsreels & Cinemagazines
Credits
Contributors: Shostakovich, Dmitri; Pozner, V.; Kartun, Derek; McCrindle, Alex; Ensink, Ella; Reusch, Heinz; Wegner, Hans; Huisken, Joop; Menegoz, Robert.
Production Company: DEFA.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
DEFA, production company.
The World Federation of Trade Unions, sponsoring body.
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