Summary In "Red China", host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party. Courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon, gives viewers a look at China as it industrializes and strives to become a world power.It's starts out with footage of Chinese men pulling a boat upriver, communist soldiers marching during the 10th Anniversary celebration, and Fernand Gigon.Then "Red China" host Chet Huntley traces the consolidation of power by Mao Tse-tung and China's Communist Party then gives an inside look at the country following the slowing (or collapse) of the "Great Leap Forward" courtesy of footage from Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon. It then shift focuses on the footage Gigon captured during his 1961 visit and begins with Chet Huntley addressing the camera. Then cuts to a Chinese delegation in Canada walking with Canadian officials. Footage shows rural China from the window of a train. Gigon sits on a bed in what appears to be a hotel room and discusses filming in China and how he had to smuggle his film out of the country.

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