HUNTING HORNS: RED ARMY IN THE NORTH

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Year
1976
Reference
F14657
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1976
Reference
F14657
Media type
Moving image
Series
hunting horns
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:29:30
Production company
Pacific Films
Credits
Sound: Craig McLean
Sound: John Van Der Reyden
Cameramen: Rory O'Shea
Cameramen: Warrick Attewell (aka Waka)
Cameramen: Rick Allender
Cameramen: Michael Hardcastle
Graphics: Stephen Hill
Production Assistant: Sue May
Assistant Editor: Adrienne Rogers
Music Direction: Steven McCurdy
Music Performance: Jan Preston
Theme Music Composed: Douglas Lilburn
James Bertram Charcoal Drawing (Courtesy “Islands”): Evelyn Page
Stills: Alexander Turnbull Library
Executive Producer For Television One: Peter Morritt
Editor: Rick Spurway
Producer: John O'Shea
Director: Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa)
Music Direction: Jan Preston

James Bertram talks to James McNeish of unrest, war and revolution in Europe and Asia 1930-1950.

Bertram discusses the role and dangers of being a war correspondent in China, visiting Japan in 1937 in an attempt gauge the Japanese attitude towards war, Peking before the revolution, invasion of Peking by Japanese, his relationship with the Chinese military, travelling with the Eighth Route Army, meeting a jovial Mao Zedong (Tse-tung), his own involvement in the revolution.

Biographical Note: Prior to the war Bertram performed aid work with the China Defence League, for whom he gave fund-raising lectures in a tour of the US, and led a convoy of supply trucks from Haiphong in Indochina to Yan'an. Part-way through this journey England declared war on Germany, and he returned to New Zealand. Shortly later he returned to Hong Kong to continue work for the China Defence League.
He spent a few months as relief press attaché to the British ambassador in Chungking, but returned to Hong Kong until it was seized by the Japanese in December 1941. A volunteer gunner, he became a prisoner of war in awful conditions until the Japanese surrender nearly four years later.
After the war Bertram returned to Japan as an adviser to the New Zealand delegation to the Far Eastern Commission.
- Adapted from Wikipedia.com