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The footage features a market day at Ding Xian when large crowds of men, women and children came to attend on foot or by horse carts, and goods and food were sold. The Mass Education Movement had a stand with martial arts performances and a banner saying "farming by scientific methods (用科学方法种地)".

Sidney Gamble moved to Ding Xan in 1931 to carry out surveys of village life in Northern China. The footage captured daily life of people from all walks of life in Ding Xian city and from the surrounding villages.

This is Sidney Gamble's first visit to Ding Xian where the National Association for the Mass Education Movement (MEM), led by James Yen (Yangchu Yan 晏陽初), was based. The footage documents MEM's literacy program, its promostion of better farming methods; as well as daily life in the villages. Scenes are proceeded with detailed text to explain the content and its significance.