Morley Safer, C.B.S. News Correspondent, entered China on a tourist visa to compile this report on Communist China in the throes of the Chairman Mao's cultural revolution.
With British cameraman John Peters, Safer visited Peking, Shanghai, Canton, Sian, and Yenan, and rambled through villages, communes, schools, factories, and industrial exhibits. He also examined the influence of Mao's fanatical Red Guard.
(Film made by the Columbia Broadcasting System)
Morley Safer, a Canadian-born journalist, has been with C.B.S. since 1961. One of America's top television reporters, he received the Paul White Memorial Award for 'his courage seeking and reporting the truth as he sees it in Vietnam.' In 1966 he won the six major television reporting awards in the United States.