- Title: VM-1208
- Summary: DIPLOMATS ON VIRGIN SOIL: 16 DIPLOMATS FROM VARIETY COUNTRIES INCLUDING U. S. AND CANADA VISIT SOVIET FARMLAND. ENGLISH NARRATION.
- Description:01:20:20 - MLS TRACTOR PULLING SLED CONTAINING GROUP OF MEN ANDS WOMEN DRESSED IN WINTER CLOTHING AND OTHER BOXCAR TYPE SLEDS ACROSS SNOWY FIELDS. GROUP SETTING UP TENT IN SNOW. MS LONG STRING TRAIN FLAT CARS CARRYING ENDLESS ROWS OF TRUCKS AND TRACTORS, OUT TO CULTIVATE THE GREAT SOVIET STEPPES (UKRAINE ?) 01:20:50 - TITLE: (IN RUSSIAN) THE VIRGIN LANDS VISITED BY DIPLOMATS 01:20:55 - MALE, FEMALE DIPLOMATS FROM 16 COUNTRIES CLIMB DOWN STEPS OF AIRLINER, ARE GREETED BY SOVIET MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SHARIPOV. CU SHARIPOV FOREIGN DIPLOMATS START WITH MEETING WITH TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE. CU SOVIET OFFICIAL BRIEFS THEM. SHOWS THEM MAP OF TERRITORY WHERE IN THE LAST 120 YEARS 500 STATE FARMS WERE SET UP AND 48 MILLION ACRES OF VIRGIN AND RE-CLAIMED LAND WERE PUT TO THE PLOW. 01:22:01 - PAN VAST EXTENT OF STEPPE LANDS BRISTLING WITH WHEAT FIELDS AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE. MLS TWO BUSES CARRYING DIPLOMATS HEADS OUT TO THE FIELDS. MS DIPLOMAT, REPORTERS STAND, SIT INSIDE BUS VARIOUS SHOTS BUSES AMID VAST ACRES OF WHEAT. PAN SAME. MS SMILING FEMALE DIPLOMAT FROM ETHOPIA SAYS TO REPORTER, "IT'S A REAL SUCCESS". CU WHEAT SWAYING IN WIND. CU DIPLOMATS WITH HANDS FULL OF WHEAT GRAIN TASTE MORSELS OF GRAIN. CU TURKISH CHARGE' D'AFFAIR. MS CANADIAN AMBASSADOR FORD TASTES GRAIN AS OTHER WATCH 01:23:14 - LS BUSES DRIVING THROUGH WHEAT FIELDS, COVERED MORE THAN 150 KILOMETERS OF WHEAT FIELD. VARIOUS VIEWS ONE OF LARGES STATE FARMS IN THE REGION WITH ROWS OF PARKED TRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT. MCU SPRINKLER TRUCK SPRINKLING LAND. 01:23:50 - FEMALE WORKER IN FIELD'S KITCHEN FRIES SOME EGGS. CU EGGS IN PAN, FIELDS SMALL PICHER WITH TEA FROM TEAPOT. MS LITTLE NUDE BOY STANDS IN BATHTUB AS MOM SOAPS HIM DOWN. 01:24:18 - DIPLOMATS SIT FOR DINNER AT STATE FARM'S DINING ROOM. MS CANADIAN AMBASSADOR, THE SENIOR MEMBER OF GROUP, IS SERVED RAM'S HEAD ON PLATTER IN ACCORDANCE TO CUSTOM. AMBASSADOR CUTS SLICE OF RAM'S HEAD, PASSES IT ONTO SOVIET AMBASSADOR. CU BRITISH AMBASSADOR LAUGHS IT OFF AS PIECE IS PASSED TO HIM AND OTHERS. 01:25:17 - MS SOVIET BUS DRIVER, BACK TO CAMERA, AT WHEEL OF BUS, AS DIPLOMATS CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY. PAN DIPLOMATS ON BUS. PAN VAST WHEAT FIELDS TO BUSES PARKED IN THEIR MIDST. VARIOUS SHOTS DIPLOMATS OUT OF BUS HAVING DISCUSSIONS IN WHEAT FIELD. CU DAPPER SOCIALIST LEADER WITH WHITE GOATEE SPEAKS TO GROUP. 01:26:06 - BRITISH AMBASSADOR ASKING QUESTIONS OF INTEREST. GROUP GATHERS AROUND GRAVE-LIKE HOLE IN GROUND WITH STEPS GOING DOWN AROUSES MUCH INTEREST BY AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR OF THE MICRO-ELEMENTS IN THE SOIL. CU AMBASSADOR STANDS ON STEPS IN HOLE AND TAKES VARIOUS SAMPLES OF SOIL FROM WALLS. ABOVE PAN GROUP NEAR BUSES IN MIDST OF FIELDS OF HIGH WHEAT PLANTS. 01:26:43 - MCU WOMEN DIPLOMATS TASTE FRESH EAR OF CORN (?). DIPLOMATS PERUSE MODERN MACHINES USED IN THE AREA. MACHINE PULLED BY LARGE TRUCK CAB IS DEMONSTRATED. 01:27:44 - VISITING DIPLOMATS GET TOUR OF PICTURESQUE HEALTH RESORT BY LARGE LAKE (?) GUESTS TOUR WOODED AREA OF RESORT. BLACK FEMALE DIPLOMAT CHECKS OUT REINDEER WHO SEEM TO ACCEPT THE VISITORS IN THEIR MIDST. MS LARGE REINDEER LOOKS AT CAMERA, CONTINUES GRAZING WITH OTHERS. 01:28:34 - LS ABOVE VIEW DIPLOMATS TAKE RIDE IN SPEED BOAT ON PICTURESQUE LAKE. 01:28:36 - LS BUS PASSES AREA OF HOUSING PROJECTS. DIPLOMATS IN BUS. PAN MODERN CLUBHOUSE AND VAST AUDITORIUM. TOUR GROUNDS 01:29:36 - CU LITTLE GIRLS WITH BOUQUET OF FLOWERS FOR DIPLOMATS. LS GIRLS GIVE DIPLOMATS FLOWERS AS THEY EXIT BUSES. DIPLOMATS SAY GOODBYE, BOARD PLANE. PAN HUGE FARMLAND.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1208