New Campus at Shantou University, China, 1980s - Archive Film 1031163

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1031163 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, South China when newly built in the 1980s. Chinese students studying at the main campus, library and canteen facilities. Computer suite room - view over a young Chinese woman's shoulder as she works at a computer station, camera moves left to see a young man sitting beside her, also working at a computer, typing on a keyboard. Wider view of the I.T facilities, room, with rows of computer stations and desks, the same three students are seated there, camera moves over to another young man typing. Closer view of his hands at the keyboard. Library room with magazine shelving and long reading desks between them, a couple of students sit looking at magazines - one young man leaning over his book, camera moves down the table to a young woman also reading. Study group, white male tutor talks to students in the library, the camera swiftly turns to one of the Chinese students who talks for a while, camera occasionally zooming in and out of head and shoulder shots, eventually he continues studying and the camera moves to the magazine wrack behind him, pausing on the top. A different library room with large bookcases with books stacked on the, a row of desks with a few students sitting at them reading. Close up side view of a book one young man is reading, he turns the pages awkwardly. A row of record card drawers, a man sits leafing through the cards. Map of the campus. Outdoors - male students walking, more students on bicycles, they continue through teh quad area and into another building. Canteen - Dinner ladies wearing blue aprons fill up students' bowls, they crowd around in a fairly unorganised way. A large hot water tureen on teh floor, a girl ladles herself some hot water into an enamel bowl then passes the ladle to another student who does the same.