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odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1993.24.16
name: label: Collection Creator
content: University of California (System). Extension Media Center
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content: University of California Extension Media Center (EMC) film collection
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content: Film reels (black-and-white sound; 730 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film presents key economic strategies of the newly independent country of Guyana including the concept of "self-help," using all volunteer labor, encouragement of cooperative industries, and nationalization of the bauxite mining industry. Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham discusses his hopes to decrease unemployment and stimulate foreign trade as well as local agricultural and industrial development. Interviewed are other Guyanese who are involved in development projects including building a cooperative market, enlarging a government school, mud brick industry, and a recently nationalized bauxite plant.

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