GRAINS OF SWEAT Part 1

Description

Documentary: On planting, growing, harvesting, threshing and marketing rice. Quotations from the Chinese poem, Grains of Sweat, intersperse scenes of Chinese rice farmers and laborers. Chinese soldiers help in the fields; women bring food to field workers. Human porter trains carry grain sacks from fields to sampans. Close up of rice bowl and chopsticks.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups