- Title: VM-1320
- Summary: 1986 COMMUNIST CONGRESS: WORLD COMMUNIST LEADERS ATTEND 27TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN MOSCOW, AMONG WHO ARE FIDEL CASTRO, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, GUS HALL, AND OTHERS.
- Description:00:00:50 - VARIOUS VIEWS SOLEMN MEN, WOMEN, MILITARY DELEGATES SEATED IN AUDIENCE, WEARING TINY IN EAR LISTENING DEVICES, SOLEMNLY LISTENING TO SPEAKER ON DAIS.. ABOVE LS VIEW OF HUGE CHAMBER WITH CROWD OF DELEGATES IN SEATS IN F/G SPEAKER AT PULPIT IN FRONT OF ROWS OF LEADERS ON DAIS BEHIND HIM AND HUGE COLORFUL OVERPOWERING BACKDROP WITH HUGE STATUE OF LENIN IN FRONT OF COMMUNIST BANNER. 00:01:13 - UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER GESTURES WITH HAND AS HE SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN. VOICE OVER NARRATOR INTERPRETS SPEECH IN ENGLISH. CU FACE FEMALE, MALE DELEGATES ABSORBED BY THE SPEECH, MS PAN SEVERAL HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICERS LISTENING WITH LISTENING DEVICES ATTACHED TO EAR, TAKING NOTES. MS SPEAKER AT PULPIT ANDREY GROMYKO, AND OTHERS. BACK TO AUDIENCE, ZOOM IN DELEGATES. DELEGATES IN SEATS APPLAUD. 00:02:16 - ABOVE VIEW LEADERS AND CONGRESS MEMBERS IN LOBBY DURING BREAK. MS GORBACHEV AND GROUP OF LEADERS CHAT AS THEY WALK TOWARD CAMERA. MS FIDEL CASTRO IS AMONG ONE OF THE COMMUNIST LEADERS OF THE 113 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT CONFERENCE, MCU VARIOUS BLACK AFRICAN LEADERS CHATTING WITH DELEGATES. AS WELL AS ASIAN WOMEN BEDECKED WITH MEDALS ON THEIR JACKETS. 00:03:00 - ABOVE PAN COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS FROM SOCIALIST COUNTRIES GROUPS VISITING SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, INDUSTRY EXHIBITION. GROUPS ARE TAKEN ON GUIDED TOURS OF FACILITY. CU POLISH COMMUNIST LEADERS LOOKING OVER DISPLAYS. 00:03:37 - FIDEL CASTRO AND OTHERS , WEARING PROTECTIVE WHITE LAB COATS, FACE MASKS VISIT STATE OF THE ARTS MEDICAL WARD WHERE PATIENTS ARE BEING TREATED WITH SOPHISTICATED EQUIPMENT. CU CASTRO WITH FACE MASK, PAN TO PATIENT LAYING ON OPERATING TABLE BEING TREATED. medicine, science, cuba. 00:03:51 - ASIAN COMMUNIST LEADERS ENTER ROOM, SHAKE HANDS. CU PAN TO NORTH VIETNAM DIPLOMAT (LE DOC THO ?). WHO HANDS ROSES, BOWS TO FEMALE SCIENTIST IN WHIT LAB COAT AND HAT. COMMUNIST LEADERS MARCH THROUGH FACTORY. PEOPLE WITH BANNERS WATCH. CU HARD HAT WORKER SPEAKS TO ASIAN WEARING FUR HAT. 00:04:14 - PAN RALLY BLACKS (AFRO HAIRCUTS) WHITES WITH BANNERS AS VOICE OVER TELLS HOW STRONG COMMUNISM IS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD. PAN SIGNS IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES. propaganda, 00:04:39 - EUROPEAN COMMUNIST LEADERS EXAMINE PAINTINGS IN ART MUSEUM. CU LARGE MURAL ON WALL. art 00:04:41 - TILT DOWN CONFETTI AS IT POURS DOWN FROM HIGH CEILING ONTO WEDDING COUPLE WHO MARCH INTO ROOM AS PEOPLE APPLAUD. VOICE OVER, "WE HAVE DIFFERENT NATIONAL WEDDING CUSTOMS....", AS MAN HANDS FLOWERS TO BRIDE AND GROOM MLS VIEW STAINED GLASS WINDOWS ON WALL, TILT DOWN TO WEDDING PARTY DANCING. 00:04:57 - TWO YOUNG GIRLS IN TRADITIONAL POLISH COSTUME, HAND BOUQUET OF FLOWERS TO 1ST SECRETARY OF UNITED POLISH PARTY WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI. CU JARUZELSKI SPEAKING TO SOVIET SCIENTISTS. 00:05:17 - JURUZELSKI ADDRESS CONGRESS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE AS VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. ABOVE VIEW OF THE GREAT AUDITORIUM WITH BACKDROP OF LENIN AND COMMUNIST RED FLAG OVERPOWERING THE SCENE. PAN PODIUM, CROWDS IN AUDIENCE. CU POLISH LEADER SPEAKING, "THE COUNTER REVOLUTION WILL NOT SUCCEED AND WILL NEVER SUCCEED". CU MAN AND OTHERS IN AUDIENCE APPLAUDING. ZOOM IN JARUZELSKI AS VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. MS PAM HUGE AUDIENCE APPLAUDING POLITELY AS SPEECH CONTINUES. MLS PAN MEMBERS LEADERSHIP SEATED BEHIND SPEAKER. PAN FLAGS OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES FLYING OUTSIDE BUILDING. 00:07:06 - LEADERS SEATED AROUND HUGE ROUND TABLE, 00:07:31 - MS FIDEL CASTRO AT ROSTRUM ADDRESSES COMMUNIST AUDIENCE. LEADERS IN ROWS OF DAISES IN B/G. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES IN ENGLISH. LS VIEW CASTRO AT LECTERN PAN TO HUGE AUDIENCE IN MEZZANINE AND TWO UPPER BALCONIES THAT WRAP AROUND BOTH SIDES OF AUDITORIUM FILLED TO CAPACITY. AUDIENCE APPLAUD CASTRO. MCU GOOD SHOT CASTRO SPEAKING, VOICE OVER TRANSLATING. 00:08:22 - MCU CASTRO SPEAKING ABOUT VIETNAM AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PRICE TO BE PAID BY THE IMPERIALISTS FOR......".. 00:08:29 - VARIOUS VIEWS U. S. C-47 HELICOPTERS IN ACTION OVER VIETNAM. AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARCHING THROUGH JUNGLE AREAS, GI ARTILLERY UNIT FIRING SHELLS ACROSS RIVER AS CASTRO VOICE OVER SPEAKS OF CONFLICT 00:08:52 - RAG TAG ARMY OF CONTRAS IN NICARAGUA STAND AT ATTENTION AS TWO AMERICAN ADVISERS INSPECTS THEM. TILT UP DOWN ONE OF THE RAG TAG UNIFORMS ON THE CONTRA TROOPS. VOICE OVER CASTRO SPEAKS OF INVASION OF "THE LITTLE ISLAND OF GRENADA", AND PREPARING FOR NEW INVASION OF NICARAGUA....". VARIOUS SHOTS CONTRA TROOPS IN ACTION, SPRINGING OUT OF FOX HOLE AND FIRING BAZOOKA AT TANK. VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN TROOPS, HELICOPTERS, ON MOVE IN GRENADA. 00:09:44 - MCU SANDANISTA LEADER BIJORDA CASTAGNA SPEAKS ON LECTERN AS VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. . HE TELLS HOW THE CONFLICT IS PROGRESSING. VARIOUS VIEWS SANDANISTA TROOPS CHEERING, RAISING RIFLES IN AIR AS CASTAGNA VOICE OVER IS HEARD. 00:10:39 - MS GUS HALL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY, HAS HIS TURN AT THE LECTERN. LS ABOVE VIEW HUGE BACK DROP LENIN AND RED FLAG DWARFING GUS HALL AS HE SPEAKS IN FRONT OF SOVIET COMMUNIST LEADERS SEATED BEHIND HIM, AUDIENCE IN FRONT. HALL SPEAKS OF "SO CALLED STAR WARS.....". "MOST SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD SAY THAT STAR WARS IS A DANGEROUS ILLUSION". VARIOUS VIEWS MISSILE CONTROL ROOM AND ANIMATED DRAWINGS OF STAR WARS SATELLITE IN OUTER SPACE. SAYS ITS A GUISE FOR MORE SOPHISTICATED OFFENSIVE WEAPONS. 00:11:36 - CU LITTLE EMACIATED AFRICAN BO WITH SPINDLY LEGS WALKING IN DESERT. CU AFRICAN WOMAN CUDDLING HER STARVING CHILD, ; PAN STARVING YOUNG AFRICAN CHILDREN IN PARENTS ARMS, WHO THEMSELVES ARE EMACIATED. CU ZOOM AWAY STARVING SOW LYING ON GROUND, ZOOM AWAY TO CU BONE REMNANTS MUSLIM MEN KNEELING ON GROUND, PRAYING TO ALLAH., BEHIND DOES THE SAME AS HE COPIES ACTIONS OF ADULTS, AS VOICE OVER BLAMES THEIR PLIGHT ON THE COST OF THE ARMS RACE . propaganda. starvation, graphic. 00:12:26 - CU FIERY BLAST OFF OF BALLISTIC MISSILE.. 00:12:48 - FACE SHOTS YOUNG GIRL, MIDDLE AGED MAN, PAN CROWD WITH HUGE BANNERS, BALLOONS, DURING RAUCOUS RALLY. DURING RALLY IN MOSCOW (?) MS STATUE OF LENIN IN FRONT OF RED FLAG (BACKDROP OF DAIS AT AUDITORIUM WHERE 27TH CONGRESS OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY IS HELD.. VARIOUS GOOD ANGLE VIEWS OF ALL LEVELS OF CROWDED AUDITORIUM. 00:13:46 - MS CROWD RAISES, APPLAUDS AS MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY COMES TO ROSTRUM. 00:13:58 - MIKHAIL GORBACHEV SPEAKS, IS TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH BY VOICE OVER. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS MEN ABSORBED, LISTENING TO GORBACHEV'S SPEECH. PAN HALL AS HE SPEAKS. ALL STAND, APPLAUD AT END OF SPEECH. MLS LEADER PROCLAIMS CLOSE OF 27TH CONGRESS OF SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY. ZOOM AWAY, LS CU PAN AS ALL STAND AND SING COMMUNIST ANTHEM (IMPRESSIVE VIEW). 00:16:58 - AERIAL PAN HUGE RED STAR ON STEEPLE OF BUILDING ON CORNER OF KREMLIN WALL, AND GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS IN THE WALLED IN KREMLIN. ZOOM AWAY AND CONTINUED PAN OF MULTI-STORIED COMPLEX IF GOVERNMENTAL BUI;DINGS INSIDE WALLS OF KREMLIN, AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN CITY OF MOSCOW INCLUDING RIVER AND HIGHWAY RUNNING ALONGSIDE KREMLIN WALLS. (GOOD SHOT). 00:17:40 - LS AERIAL SHOTS (SPECTACULAR VIEW) WALLED IN CITY OF THE KREMLIN AND CITY SCAPE OF MOSCOW AS VOICE OVER PEOPLE SINGING ANTHEM. 00:18:01 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1986
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1320