Behind the Scenes of Communist North Korea
Behind the Scenes of Communist North Korea
Master 1848 - Tape 1 Tilting LS oil pipeline snaking through mountainous, snowy countryside in communist North Korea. High angle LS turbines inside hydroelectric plant. LSs dim, shadowy, steamy steel mill and foundry; MS North Korean man working on line in mill; TLS man welding on plant floor. LS higher educational building; TLS two male North Korean university students working at desk in room, paintings of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and North Korea leader Kim Il-Song in background. MS two Korean men working at desk, writing into ledger books; CU pen to paper, writing in Korean. CU first page of Stalin biography (Russian text). TLS/MSs political parade, Koreans marching with banners, carrying pictures of Kim Il-Song. MS North Korean mean standing in line outside polling place. Rear view TLS Korean man placing ballot into ballot box, old flag of Korea on wall in BG. TLSs Korean men using archaic technique to measure out farm land. VO: "War is carried north of the 38th Parallel. These scenes give a quick idea of North Korea... They show heavy industry there, as opposed to agricultural South Korea. Even locomotives are manufactured in the north. Culture is completely under Soviet influence. For example, one of the first projects undertaken at this university after the country's liberation from Japan in 1945 was the translation of Joseph Stalin's biography. Elections, loosely speaking. There is campaigning, but only one party. There is voting, but only one slate of candidates. The people cast either yes or no ballots. Distribution of land makes good propaganda. But as in all communist countries, it ends up state-controlled farms..."