- Title: VM-1325
- Summary: RUSSIAN NEWS:
- Description:00:32:30 - MLS ABOVE VIEW TWO IDENTICAL MULTI-STORY APARTMENT HOUSES STAND SIDE BY SIDE IN UNIDENTIFIED CITY (NEW YORK ?), PARKING LOT FULL OF CARS IN F/G. U. N. DELEGATE HOUSING (?) 00:32:34 - REAR VIEW OF UNITED NATIONS BUILDING WITH EAST RIVER IN B/G. LONG LINE OF FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS ON PROMENADE, AUTO TRAFFIC IN F/G. SKYSCRAPER IN B/G. MLS ABOVE VIEW DELEGATES WITH EAR PHONES SEATED IN AUDITORIUM (GENERAL ASSEMBLY ?). 00:32:44 - MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF SOVIET UNION, ANDREI GROMYKO, SEATED WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF SOVIET DELEGATION. ABOVE VIEW OTHER NATION DELEGATES IN ROWS OF SEATS. 00:32:55 - ANDREI GROMYKO AT PODIUM ADDRESSING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATION. 00:33:38 - HUGE HARVESTER CUTTING AND HARVESTING WHEAT CROP IN SOVIET UNION. MCU DRIVER OF HARVESTER IN SEAT FACING CAMERA GRAIN IS POURED INTO TRUCK DRIVING ALONGSIDE HARVESTER WITH TWO MEN IN TRUCK SHOVELLING THE GRAIN AS IT POURS OUT OF SPOUT. CU FEET OF WORKER ANKLE DEEP IN GRAIN, HE SHOVELS AS SPOUT SHOOTS GRAIN. 00:33:50 - GROUP OF YOUNG MEN, WOMEN WITH HEAD SCARVES, STAND IM MOUNDS OF GRAIN SPREADING IT WITH SHOVELS. MS TRUCK AFTER TRUCK FULL WITH GRAIN PASSES ON HIGHWAY, FARMS IN B/G. MS DUMP TRUCK FULL OF GRAIN, BACKS UP RAMP TO GRAIN ELEVATOR, DUMPS IT INTO CHUTE. MLS GRAIN POURING OUT OF CHUTES ON GRAIN ELEVATOR HIGH OFF GROUND. ABOVE VIEW SEVERAL CHUTES DOING SAME. 00:34:26 - LS SOVIET OIL FIELDS (?) WITH LARGE TRENCH IN F/G VARIOUS SCENES SOVIET WORKERS LAYING OIL PIPELINES ACROSS VAST FIELDS, UNDER RIVERS, ACROSS MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY, THROUGH FORESTS. CU VIEW PIPE BEING WRAPPED WITH PROTECTIVE COVER BY HEAVY MACHINERY AS IT IS LAIN. PAN FACE SHOTS OF YOUNG ENGINEERS (?) WORKING ON THE PROJECT. MCU PIPE IS GENTLY LAYED IN TRENCH BY CRANE. CU CRANE OPERATOR. ABOVE VIEW SAME.. 00:35:35 - VARIOUS VIEWS CROWD DIGNITARIES ATTENDING MEMORIAL CEREMONY AT FLOWER DRAPED MEMORIAL IN PARIS (?) PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE (?). CU DIGNITARY MAKES SPEECH AT SITE. GROUP OF ELDERLY DIGNITARIES SIT AND LISTEN. 00:36:04 - VARIOUS VIEWS UNIDENTIFIED COMMUNIST OF UNIDENTIFIED COUNTRY [POSES WITH OTHERS, SIGNS DOCUMENTS, MAKES SPEECH AT PODIUM. 00:36:29 - FLAG DRAPED SOVIET (?)OCEAN LINER IN HARBOR. CROWD PASSENGERS, BACKS TO CAMERA, ON DECK OF LINER IN F/G. WAVE TO CROWD ON DOCK, FACING CAMERA 00:36:39 - HUGE CROWD AT SHIPYARD, WOMEN WITH FLOWERS, APPLAUD AS PASSENGERS WALK DOWN GANGPLANK.. YOUNG WOMAN WITH BOUQUET OF FLOWERS WAVES TO CROWD AS SHE WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA. MCU YOUNG MAN BEING GREETED LOKE HERO BY CROWD WAVES AS MAN IN CROWD PINS SOMETHING ON HIS LAPEL ALREADY DECKED WITH PINS OF ALL 00:37:01 - MAN WITH BERET AND GLASSES ACCEPTS FLOWERS FROM YOUNG WOMAN ON DECK ABOVE HIM, WHO BENDS OVER RAILING TO PIN SOMETHING ON HIS LAPEL AS WELL. ABOVE VIEW CROWD APPLAUDING AS ONE OF THE MEN MAKES SPEECH ON PODIUM. 00:37:33 - PEOPLE ATTENDING SOVIET ART GALLERY (MODERN). SMALL STATUETTES OF WINGED FIGURE OVER GLOBE AND MUSCULAR MALE ATHLETE DOING SHOT CUT. VARIOUS MODERNISTIC OUTER SPACE SCULPTURES, MURALS. 00:38:14 - LS HUGE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT BASE OF HILLS. PAN HUGE ROTATING PIPE NEAR HIGH CEILING OF HUGE PLANT (HYDRO-ELECTRIC ?) 00:38:48 - LS RUSSIAN COWBOYS (?) DRIVING HUGE HERS OF DEER THROUGH HILLY, TREED PASTURE TO HIGH FENCED CORAL MS HERD STAYS CLOSE TOGETHER AS MAN WITH WHIP KEEPS THEM NEAR FENCE. ONE DEER BREAKS AWAY FROM HER AS PLANNED, MAN WITH WHO CHASES IT. MAN, BACK TO CAMERA, AND WOMAN HOLD DOWN DEER, (NOT SEEN), AS ANOTHER CUTS OFF ITS ANTLERS. CU HANDS PLACE ANTLER ON LARGE PILE OF ANTLERS LYING ON GROUND OF CORAL. DEER LEAPS OUT OF LARGE CRATE USED TO HOLD HIM WHILE ANTLERS ARE REMOVED, AND RUNS OFF, SANS ANTLERS. 00:39:39 - THE DEFINITIVE FARMER'S MARKET - HUGE DOMED CONVENTION-TYPE BUILDING WITH PEOPLE CLIMBING, THE MANY LEVELS OF STEPS GOING UP TO LARGE BUILDING. CROWDS INSIDE BUILDING JAM BOTH UPPER BALCONY AND LOWER LEVELS OF THE BUILDING WHICH IS A LARGE FARMER"S MARKET. MERCHANTS SELL FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AND OTHER PRODUCE, INCLUDING LIVE CHICKENS. 00:40:15 - STATUE OF MAN AIMING RIFLE AS HE KNEELS ON ONE KNEE ATOP PLATFORM TITLED "MOSCOW 1958" WITH LARGE TARGET BEHIND HIM - AT INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MEET OPENS IN MOSCOW (?) . MLS ROWS OF NUMBERED STALLS WHERE RIFLEMEN SHOOT. VARIOUS VIEWS YOUNG MALE ATHLETES AIMING, FIRING, VARIETY RIFLES AT TARGETS IN COMPETITION. LS VIEW TWO ROWS OF TARGETS ON SIDE OF HILL. 00:40:50 - RIFLEMAN, BACK TO CAMERA, AIMS AND FIRES RIFLE AT MOVING DEER FIGURE. CU MOVING TARGET IN FORM OF A DEER. TWO MEN WATCHING COMPETITION WEAR AUSTRALIAN BUSH HATS.. MS JUDGE AWARDS RIFLE TEAM MEDALS AS YOUNG WOMAN FOLLOWS GIVING EACH BOUQUET OF FLOWERS. 00:41:14 - RUSSIAN DANCE TROUP IN TRADITIONAL COSTUMES, DOING RUSSIAN OPERA. ETHNIC FOLK SONG AND DANCE ROUTINES. ON STAGE IN HUGE THEATER. (BOLSHOI (?). VIEWS OF SELL OUT AUDIENCE IN MEZZANINE AND TWO TIERS OF BALCONIES AS SEEN FROM STAGE.. #N 25 - 1958 00:42:46 - VARIOUS SHOTS LARGE CONVENTION HALL-TYPE BUILDING WITH COMMUNIST EMBLEM AND RED STAR RUSSIAN WORDS. (SOCIALIST PARTY CONVENTION?) 00:43:21 - ABOVE VIEW CROWD IN AUDIENCE, BACK TO CAMERA, AND LARGE CROWD OF PARTY LEADERS ON DAIS, FACING AUDIENCE STAND AND APPLAUD EACH OTHER IN UNISON, IN RHYTHMIC STEADY HAND CLAP. MS PEOPLE IN AUDIENCE AND ON DAIS DOING SAME. MS LEADERS ON DOUBLE DECKER DAIS SIT AND PERUSE PAPERWORK. LS DAIS WITH HUGE PORTRAITS OF KARL MARX, LEMIN AND OTHERS DWARFING THE PEOPLE ON DAIS BELOW. 00:43:41 - VARIOUS LEADERS SPEAK AT PODIUM, VARIOUS VIEWS MOSTLY MEN IN AUDIENCE LISTENING, TAKING NOTES, INCLUDING MILITARY OFFICER.. MLS ABOVE VIEW AUDIENCE AGAIN RISE CLAP IN RHYTHMIC UNISON. 00:44:18 - TITLE WITH MEDAL HAVING FACE OF LENIN ON IT. CU OPEN BOOK WITH LENIN PORTRAIT ON PAGE. PAN TO ADJOINING PAGE (LOOKS LIKE A DIPLOMA).. 00:44:25 - CROWD IN AUDITORIUM APPLAUDING HAPPENINGS ON DAIS, WHERE ELDERLY DIGNITARY IN BUSINESS SUIT PRESENTS AWARD (LENIN MEDAL ?) TO MAN WEARING TURBAN AND BLACK TUNIC (INDIAN OR PAKISTAN ?). MS MEN, WOMEN IN HUGE AUDIENCE APPLAUD. AS MEDAL IS PINNED ON HIS CHEST. 00:44:52 - FIVE MEN WALKING IN WAIST HIGH WHEAT FIELD. CU FARMER WITH ORIENTAL FEATURES PLACES GRAIN IN MOUTH TO TASTE IT. ABOVE VIEW CROWD FARMERS (?) AT OPEN MARKET WATCH PARADE OF FARM MACHINERY AS THEY PASS IN REVIEW. MS HUGE HARVESTER, THRASHER (?) ROLLS BY. WOMEN YOUNG AND OLD, ALL WEARING BABUSHKAS (HEAD SCARVES), WAVE TO FARMERS OILED IN BACK OF TRUCK, ONE PLAYING ACCORDION, AS IT PASSES, MEN WAVE BACK FROM TRUCK. CU HARVESTER, COMBINE, CHURNING UP WHEAT. COMBINE CHUTE POURS GRAIN INTO TRUCK AS TRUCK RIDES ALONGSIDE. CU SAME. MORE OF THE HUGE MACHINERY AT WORK IN FIELD. farm implements. 00:45:48 - ABOVE VIEW CROWD VISITORS WATCH DEMONSTRATION OF METAL WORKING MACHINES. LATHES IN MODERN PLANT. CU VIEWS AUTOMATED MACHINE AT WORK. VARIOUS VIEWS MEN AT WORK AT MACHINES IN PLANT. YOUNG MAN WORKING WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE IS INTERVIEWED 00:47:06 - PAN LARGE CROWD WORKERS, VISITORS AT SHIPYARD WATCHING FROM HIGH PLATFORMS, SCAFFOLDING, AS LARGE SHIP "LEUNA II" - BOSTOCK, IS LAUNCHED FROM DRYDOCK. MCU WOMAN ON PLATFORM TAKES BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE ATTACHED TO ROPE, LETS IT GO TOWARDS SHIP'S BOW. BOTTLE SMASHES AGAINST BOW. VARIOUS VIEWS SHIP SLIDING DOWN WAYS INTO HARBOR 00:47:47 - SERIAL VIEW HIGHWAY RUNNING THROUGH HILLY ARCTIC LAND, AERIAL VIEW TWO POLAR BEAR CUBS PLAYING IN SNOW, GIANT STONE STATUES OF ESKIMO STANDING IN FRONT OF STONE TEEPEE. TWO MEN DWARFED BY THE STATUES, WALK BY THEM. MS DOG TEAM RESTING IN SNOW. VARIOUS VIEWS RUSSIAN METEOROLOGICAL STATION IN ANTARTICA (?). RUSSIAN SCIENTIST CHECKING EQUIPMENT, SET UP LARGE WEATHER BALLOON. PAN CAMP BUILDINGS AMID BARREN FROZEN LAND. 00:48:56 - FIVE LITTLE KIDS WALK ON PATH THROUGH WHEAT FIELD TO FARM HOUSE IN PICTURESQUE COUNTRYSIDE. MS ELDERLY CRAFTSMAN SITS IN YARD WITH LITTLE BOY, BOTH DOING WOOD CARVINGS. CU MAN'S HAND HOLDING WOOD IN ONE HAND CHISEL IN OTHER, CARVING AWAY. AND CHISELLING TILT UP ELDERLY BALD MAN WITH MOUSTACHE. MCU LITTLE BOY ALSO CARVING WOOD. CU SMALL ANIMAL CARVING SITS ON OUTDOOR TABLE. 00:49:14 - INSTRUCTOR IN BUSINESS SUIT SURROUNDED BY MEN AND WOMEN EACH WITH HUGG TABLE IN FRONT OF HER / HIM, CARVING WOODEN ANIMALS. INSTRUCTOR HOLDS UP WOODEN ROOSTER CARVING. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG WOMAN, BUSILY CARVING. LOOKING UP TO WATCH INSTRUCTOR. CU MAN'S HANDS CARVING WOOD PIECE. HOLDS UP BEAUTIFUL WOODEN MOUNTAIN GOAT JUST CARVED. PAN CLASSROOM YOUNG MEN, WOMEN BUSY CARVING AT TABLES. CU VARIOUS QUALITY FIGURES AND ANIMALS CARVED BY STUDENTS. ANIMATED WOODEN FISHERMAN, PULLS UP POLE AS HE HOOKS FISH (?) 00:49:47 - CROWD IN FIELD, TILT UP TO LARGE BARRAGE BALLOON FLOATING IN AIR ABOVE THEM WITH ROPES HANGING DOWN. FOUR YOUNG MEN WITH PILOT HATS, PARACHUTES CLIMB INTO LARGE BASKET HANGING FROM BALLOON, TAKE SEAT AS BALLOON RISES GROUP HIGH INTO SKY. LS VARIOUS VIEWS MEN STEPPING OUT,.PARACHUTING TO GROUND FROM BALLOON. 00:50:15 - MAN JUMPING OUT, PARACHUTE OPENING, HE FLOATS DOWN TO FARMLAND BELOW POV BALLOON. MLS TWO MEN STAND BY AS ANOTHER JUMPS OUT OF BASKET. LS FOUR PARACHUTES IN SKY FLOATING TO EARTH 00:50:28 - MEN ON GROUND TAKE SHOTS WITH CAMERA. MLS PARACHUTE WITH MAN FLOATING DOWN TOWARDS CAMERA. POV GROUND. 00:50:37 - UNIDENTIFIED VERY TALL (COMMUNIST ?) DIGNITARY VISITS FAR EAST COUNTRY (THAILAND ?). MEN, WOMEN BOW, KNEEL TO GROUND AS THEIR LEADER (KING?).SHOWS UP. TALL CAUCASIAN MAN MAKE SPEECH UNDER TENTED AREA. KING ?) ALSO SPEAKS. KING PLACES DOCUMENT IN HOLE IN GRANITE BLOCK, CEMENTS IT IN PLACE 00:51:31 - HUGE CROWD, MANY WOMEN WITH FLORAL BOUQUETS, WAIT AS TRAIN PULLS INTO STATION WITH RUSSIAN ENTERTAINERS (?). WHICH ARE TREATED LIKE HEROES. FEMALE VISITORS ARE GIVEN FLOWERS AND MOBBED AT STATION. ELDERLY MAN IS ALSO GIVEN FLOWERS IS FOLLOWED BY CROWD AS HE WALKS ALONG PLATFORM. 00:51:47 - ABOVE VIEW ;LARGE TROUPE DANCERS, ENTERTAINERS, ON STAGE, IN ETHNIC RUSSIAN COSTUMES, START EXTRAORDINARY FOLK DANCE AND SONG PERFORMANCE. VARIOUS VIEWS MALE RISSIAN DANCER DOES LIVELY, HAPPY, RUSSIAN DANCE WITH WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENT IN HAND (BALALIAKA), ACCOMPANIED BY TROUPE OF MALE AND FEMALE DANCERS. MALE DANCERS DO THEIR FAMOUS KICK DANCE WHICH SEEMS TO DEFY GRAVITy AS THEY GLIDE ACROSS THE FLOOR. WOMEN TRADITIONAL COSTUME, HEAD SCARVES (BABUSHKAS), WITH LONG SKIRTS SEEM TO GLIDE ACROSS STAGE AS THOUGH THEY WERE ON WHEELS.) PAN AUDIENCE APPLAUSE. ethnic dance, ethnic costume. ethnic folk songs. # N-49 1958 00:52:04 - ABOVE VIEW 21ST MEETING COMMUNIST PARTY (?), WITH THOUSANDS DELEGATES SEATED IN GREAT HALL. LARGE STATUE OF LENIN ON ONE OF THE WALLS. VARIOUS UNIDENTIFIED MEMBERS ADDRESS THE CROWD FROM PODIUM. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IN AUDIENCE. 00:55:47 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE MACHINERY IN OPERATION IN GIANT PLANT. SEVERAL WORKERS WATCHES THE MACHINE IN ACTION. TWO MEN SEATED AT DESKIN FRONT OF GIANT MACHINE, SIGN PAPERS AS OTHERS WATCH. 00:56:35 - LS INDUSTRIAL PLANT WITH FOUR SMOKING STACKS. MS CROWD WORKERS WATCH, AS DIGNITARY CUTS RIBBON, MAKES WOMAN GO YO CONTROL PANEL AND TURN ON MACHINERY AT NEW PLANT (HYDRO-ELECTRIC ?). MS MALE, FEMALE WORKERS APPLAUD. VARIOUS VIEWS WORKERS AT HUGE GENERATORS (?) 00:57:22 - MEN, WOMEN IN GROUPS GOING READING, OVER NEWSPAPERS IN OFFICE OR CLASSROOM (?). CU UNIDENTIFIED MAN AT DESK ADDRESS CAMERA.. WORKERS IN HUGE PLANT AT VARIETY MACHINES, LATHES AS VOICE OVER OF MAN AT DESK IS HEARD. MS YOUNG WOMAN WITH SCARF AND MAN AT MACHINE, PAN TO ANOTHER WOMAN AT LATHE. PAN TO LATHE.. MAN SEATED AT AND OPERATING LARGE MACHINE WHICH HE CONTROLS WITH CLUTCH SHIFTS, CLIMBS DOWN FROM CONTROLS, SPEAKS TO CAMERA. 00:59:03 - MEN, WOMEN FROM VARIETY NATIONS, RACES SIT IN LARGE HALL, LISTEN TO SPEAKERS. TWO AFRICAN MEN IN BUSINESS SUITS LISTEN TO SPEAKER. MS TWO INDIAN WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL SARIS, DOT ON FOREHEADS. LS VIEW OF LARGE HALL WITH DECORATIVE CHANDELIERS. MS VARIOUS UNIDENTIFIED LEADERS SPEAK AT PODIUM, INCLUDING A YOUNG AFRICAN MAN. 00:59:41 - MEN, WOMEN VISITORS AT GALLERY (?) OBSERVATORY (?). WORLD GLOBES OF ALL SIZES ARE ON DISPLAY AS WELL AS TELESCOPES. CU PORTRAIT OF UNIDENTIFIED NOBLEMAN (?) IN COSTUME. VISITORS PERUSE GIANT GLOBE. MS TWO BOY SCOUTS (?) POINT TO AREA IN SOUTH AMERICA. 01:00:03 - PAN VISITORS PERUSE HUGE GLOBE WITH OPENING FOR PEOPLE TO GO INSIDE WHERE THEY SIT AND SEE PAINTINGS ON CEILING RESEMBLING THOSE DONE BY MICHAELANGELO ON SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING. astronomy, science 01:00:40 - VARIOUS VIEWS RAILROAD CAR (RESEMBLING SQUARE TROLLEY CAR) DELIVERING MAIL, PACKAGES AND FURNITURE TO PEOPLE IN RURAL AREAS. CU PILE OF PACKAGES WITH ADDRESSES ON THEM. WOMAN INSIDE CAR CHECKS LEDGER.. WOMAN IS HANDED PACKAGE FROM TRAIN, FOLLOWED BY SOLDIER WITH FUR HAT. MAN UNLOADS TWO WARDROBES FROM FLAT CAR IN BACK OF TRAIN. 01:01:16 - RUSSIAN SPORTS CAR RACE HIGH SPEED SPORTS CAR WITH TWO RIDERS SPEED OFF FROM STARTING LINE, ONTO HIGHWAY THROUGH RURAL AREAS. MLS ABOVE RACERS SPEED TOWARDS CAMERA ON ROAD IN FARMLANDS. MS STREAMLINED SPORTS CAR WITH SOVIET STAR ON HOOD SPEEDS TOWARDS CAMERA AND L TO R. TWO SIDE BY SIDE TO FINISH LINE. TWO WINNERS WITH HEAD GEAR, GOGGLES, SMILE FOR CAMERA. TWO OTHERS IN LEATHER COSTUME POSE. 01:02:20 - CROWD GATHER AROUND LARGE GROUP OF CHINESE ENTERTAINERS, MOSTLY WOMEN, ,AT TRAIN STATION, MALE LEADER OD GROUP IS MET BY SOVIET DELEGATION. 01:02:41 - CROWD JAM THEATER LOWER AND UPPER BALCONIES (BOLSHOI ?) CEREMONIES ON STAGE IN FRONT OF CURTAIN AS VISITORS ARE GIVEN FLOWERS BEFORE SHOW. LARGE TROUPE OF CHINESE ENTERTAINERS ON STAGE SINGING AROUND LARGE STATUE. PAN CROWDED BALCONIES. 01:03:18 - MS CHINESE CONDUCTOR CONDUCTS ALL-CHINESE ORCHESTRA. LARGE GROUP OF CHINESE IN AUDIENCE..classical music; opera. #N-37 - 1958 01:04:35 - NEWSPAPER ARTICLES IN SOVIET OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER PROVDA (?). CONCERNING 21ST COMMUNIST PARTY MEETING (?).CU VARIOUS SHOTS FEMALE MEMBERS SPEAKING TO CAMERA.. VARIOUS VIEWS WOMEN AT MEETING IN AUDITORIUM WITH LARGE PORTRAIT OF LENIN ON WALL. 01:05:09 - LS HUGE STEEL ELECTRONICS TOWER BEING LIFTED IN PLACE WITH CRANE. WORKER ON GROUND GIVES HAND SIGNALS TO CRANE OPERATOR, AS WORKER TIGHTENS BOLTS WITH LARGE WRENCH. VARIOUS SHOTS TRANSFORMERS AND POWER LINES.. WORKERS TIGHTEN BOLTS ON HUGE GENERATOR. MLS PAN POWER CABLES GOING FROM TOWER TO TOWER. 01:05:40 - SHIRTLESS YOUNG MEN, YOUNG WOMEN WITH SCARVES ON HEADS, USE WOODEN SHOVELS TO SPREAD GRAIN AS IT POURS OUT OF HARVESTER AND FROM DUMP TRUCKS INTO HUGE PILES. FACE SHOTS YOUNG WOMEN AS THEY WORK, SMILING. PAN WORKERS, MACHINES AND TRUCKS AT BUSY WORK SITE 01:06:31 - LS LARGE OFFICE-LIKE BUILDING - TILT DOWN FROM VERY HIGH CEILING TO LARGE DISPLAY SURROUNDED BY ROPE ENCLOSURE ON GROUND. PAN TO WOMEN IN WHIT LAB COATS SEATED AT ELECTRONIC CONTROL PANELS. MS LOMG WALL OF ELECTRONIC ELECTRONIC RELAYS COVERING LENGTH OF LONG ROOM. LS PAN SEVERAL FOUR STORY OFFICE-LIKE BUILDINGS. MS VARIOUS SHOTS TWO GIGANTIC GENERATORS (?) IN PLANT. CU GAUGE. 01:07:25 - LS MAN SEATED AT DESK ON PHONE IN CENTER OF LARGE ROOM, AS WOMAN IN LAB COAT CHECKS CONTROL PANELS COVERING THE WALLS AROUND THEM.. PAN OUTDOOR ELECTRIC POWER SUB-STATION (?) WITH HIGH TENSION WIRES , TOWERS. 01:08:01 - VARIOUS VIEWS MEN ON PLATFORM ADDRESSING CROWD MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS (?) AT OUTDOOR RALLY. ALL IN AUDIENCE RAISE THEIR HANDS AS THOUGH THEY ARE BEING SWORN IN TO SOMETHING. MS MAN ON SMALL PLATFORM ADDRESSES CROWD AS TWO OTHER MEN AND A WOMAN WATCH. CU SERIOUS FACE SHOTS OF TWO WOMEN IN AUDIENCE. MCU THREE YOUNG WORKING CLASS MEN LISTEN TO SPEAKER. ABOVE VIEW LARGE CROWD WATCHING, HOLD UP SINGLE SIGN.. CU CROWD AND SIGN. 01:08:35 - "1943" SUPER-IMPOSED OVER FIREWORKS FILLING SKY. RUSSIAN TANKS CROWDED WITH RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RIDING ON TOP SPEED DOWN CITY STREET PAST LARGE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. MS HANDS OF INMATES ?, WAVE FROM BARRED WINDOW OF PRISON OR HOSPITAL (?). INMATES, SOME ON CRUTCHES, ALL SMILING EXIT BUILDING WAVING MCU RUSSIAN SOLDIER CLIMBS LADDER WITH FLAG TO PLANT ON LIBERATED BUILDING. WWII 01:08:58 - FACADE REMAINS ON BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS IN CITY OF OREL, ON RUSSIA, WHICH WAS LIBERATED OM 5/8/1943. CITY WAS DESTROYED DURING THE BATTLE OF KURSK. PAN RUBBLE REMNANTS OF WIDE AREA, RAILROAD TRACKS IN F/G DEVASTATED. CU SIGN: "OREL" ON REMAINING FACADE OF RAILROAD STATION BUILDING. ABOVE VIEW RAILROAD YARD AND STATION CROWDED WITH TRAINS AND CROWD AT STATION. 01:09:19 - MS LARGE STATUE OF LENIN IN FRONT OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN CITY SQUARE. ABOVE VIEW TROLLEY ROLLS DOWN BEAUTIFUL RE-BUILT TREE LINED STREET IN OREL. YOUNG COUPLE WALK AMID FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS IN SQUARE. VARIOUS OTHER LARGE APARTMENT AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, HOTELS (?) CU PLAQUE ON BUILDING WALL. PAN ROOFTOPS, CITYSCAPE OF BEAUTIFUL CITY RESTORED AFTER WWII 01:09:56 - CROWD MEN, WOMEN MEETING IN GREAT HALL WITH ORNATE CHANDELIERS HANGING DOWN FROM HIGH CEILING.. INDIAN AND JAPANESE LEADERS ATTEND, SPEAK. 01:10:20 - MCU YOUNG JAPANESE WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL LISTENS ATTENTIVELY. UNIDENTIFIED JAPANESE (?) MAN RECEIVES AWARD (ORDER OF LENIN MEDAL ?) FROM ELDERLY RUSSIAN (?) DIGNITARY. CROWD APPLAUD. FOLLOWED BY YOUNG ORIENTAL MAN PINNING A MEDAL ON HIS LAPEL. HE AND WIFE BOW TO THE APPLAUSE. JAPANESE MAN THEN MAKES SPEECH AS DOES JAPANESE WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL KIMONO ALONGSIDE HIM. ethic dress. 01:11:02 - MS CARS PARKED OUTSIDE CONVENTION TYPE BUILDING. AUTO, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC PASSING IN F/G VARIOUS, ORIENTAL, WESTERN GROUPS CHATTING IN LOBBY OF BUILDING (INTELLECTUAL TYPES). MS VIEW CROWD SEATED IN THEATER TYPE HALL, LISTEN TO VARIETY DIGNITARIES MAKE SPEECHES. FLAGS OF MANY COUNTRIES LINED UP ON STAGE. 01:12:04 - VARIOUS VIEWS BULLDOZERS, EARTH MOVERS AT WORK IN HILLY AREA, MOVING TOMS OF EARTH. MS TWO SURVEYORS WITH TRANSIT (SURVEYOR'S INSTRUMENT MAKE NOTES. CU HUGE PILE OF DIRT BEING MOVED BY BULLDOZER TOWARDS CAMERA. MS BULL DOZER DRIVER AT HIS CONTROLS CU FRUIT (ORANGES (?) ON FRUIT TREE, LS VIEW LINES OF FRUIT TREES IN GROVE. CU CLUSTER GRAPES ON VINE 01:12:40 - MCU NEW RUSSIAN DUMP TRUCK, CIRCA 1958 ? MAN OPENS FRONT DOOR, SHOWING STEERING WHEEL, DASHBOARD, FRINT SEAT. HE DEMONSTRATES FOLDING SEAT. OTHER VIEWS SHOWS TRUCK RIDING ALONG ROAD, UP HILLY MOUNTAIN AREA AND ON BRIDGE. 01:13:30 - RUSSIAN ICE SHOW - ICE SKATERS IN SCANDANAVIAN MOUNTAIN COSTUMES DO FOLK DANCES ON ICE FOR HUGE AUDIENCE, IN INDOOR STADIUM. CROWD IS ALSO ENTERTAINED BY TWO MEN IN HORSE COSTUME DANCING AND CAVORTING ON ICE. AS CLOWN ON ICE ADDS TO THE SHOW. PRAT FALLS BY "HORSE" GETS LAUGHTER. SKATERS IN MOUNTAIN COSTUME CIRCLE STADIUM ICE THROWING FLOWERS TO AUDIENCE. ethnic dance, sports, entertainment. # n - 38 - 1958 01:15:10 - AERIAL VIEW HUGE CROWD IN PUBLIC SQUARE IN UNIDENTIFIED CITY GATHER AROUND REVIEWING PLATFORM TO SEE AND HEAR NIKITA KHRUSCHEV. PAN TENS OF THOUSANDS IN SQUARE. KHRUSCHEV ON PLATFORM WITH OTHERS WAVES HIS HAT TO CROWD. PAN CHEERING CROWD CARRYING FLAGS, BANNERS. KHRUSCHEV AND OTHER LEADERS ON PLATFORM SPEAK. 01:15:57 - GIANT LATHE - ABOVE VIEW WORKERS IN PLANT OPERATING, CHECKING HEAVY MACHINERY. CU GIANT LATHE CUTTER CUTS HUGE ROTATING METAL PIECE. WORKER AT PLANT ADDRESSES WORKERS OVER MICROPHONE. HEAVY MACHINE IN B/G. manufacturing 01:16:56 - AERIAL PAN MILLIONS CHINESE PEOPLE AT ENORMOUS RALLY. (TIANAMEN SQUARE ?) COMMEMORATION OF MAO ZETONG'S NEW FIVE YEAR "THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD" PLAN ?), LISTEN TO CHOU EN LAI AND OTHER LEADERS SPEAK. CU FACE SHOTS YOUNG FANATICAL CHINESE MEN, WOMEN CHEERING FEVERISHLY, SHOUTING , CHANTING PATRIOTIC PHRASES (?) SOLDIERS CHANTING, CIVILIAN MEN WITH RIFLES RAISE RIFLES IN CHEER. 01:18:01 - PAN HUGE PRINTING PRESSES IN LARGE BOOK PUBLISHING PLANT. CU WORKER PERUSES LARGE SHEET CONTAINING SEVERAL UNCUT PAGES OF PRINT FOR BOOK.. MS BOOKS ROLL OUT OF MACHINES, WOMEN WORKERS SHECK THROUGH PILES OF BOOKS OM TABLE. LARGE STACKS OF BOOKS AND BOXES IN B/G CU BOOK COVER WITH FIGURE OF LENIN IS FLIPPED OPEN TO FIRST PAGE CONTAINING PHOTO OF LENIN. PAGE IS FLIPPED AGAIN REVEALING TITLES (IN RUSSIAN) AND DATES 1893 - 1894. (LENIN BIOGRAPHY?) 01:18:48 - ABOVE SHOTS LARGE MULTI-STORIED BUILDINGS, HOTELS, APARTMENT HOUSES IN ATTRACTIVE TREE-LINED SQUARE WITH TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIANS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS 01:18:58 - PEOPLE ENTERING LARGE MUSEUM (?) IN BANK-LIKE BUILDING. PEOPLE PERUSING VARIETY LARGE POSTERS DEPICTING PATRIOTIC THEMES. CU PAN POSTERS DEPICTING WORKING MEN AND WOMEN. PAINTINGS OF FAMILIES IN EARLY 1900S. MURAL SHOWING LENIN TALKING TO GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN, VARIOUS OTHER PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES WITH PATRIOTIC THEMES AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. PAINTINGS MEN AND WOMEN ON BIKES, CHILDREN PULLING CART WITH FLOWERS. CU HOUSEWIFE WITH FOLDED ARMS, HEAD SCARF, APRON AND OTHERS. MS GROUPS OF PEOPLE PERUSING PAINTINGS ON MUSEUM WALLS. 01:20:05 - RE-CONSTRUCTION OF UNIDENTIFIED CITY LEFT IN RUINS BY NAZI IN WWII. - AERIAL VIEW TREE-LINED PROMENADE IN FRONT OF LARGE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING WITH GREAT PILLARS IN FRONT, SURROUNDED BY BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES. OTHER WELL- LAYED OUT CITY BUILDINGS.. AERIAL VIEW OF SAME AREA SHOWS THE MASSIVE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY NAZI BOMBING.. GROUND VIEW OF SAME. WOMEN WITH BABY CARRIAGES WALK THROUGH THE BEAUTIFULLY RE-BUILT SQUARE. CU FOUNTAIN IN SQUARE. MS HUGE AMPHI-THEATER WITH LARGE SCULPTURED FIGURES ON TOP AND FACADE. CU SCULPTURES. MORE OF BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS IN CITY. 01:20:52 - PAN ABOVE VIEW THOUSANDS WHITE GEESE SWIMMING AROUND IN POND AT GOOSE FARM. ;HUNDREDS GEESE EXIT POND ONTO DRY LAND AS THEY SEE GROUP OF YOUNG FEMALE WORKERS IN WHITE LAB COATS, (SENSING FEEDING TIME). CU PAN YOUNG GIRL WORKERS. PAN GIRLS THROWING FEED ON GROUND AS THOUSANDS OF BABY CHICKS RUN TOWARDS THEM. CU BABY CHICKS SCRAMBLE TO EAT FEED FROM GROUND. 01:21:27 - MS YOUNG GIRLS SQUATTING DOWN WITH BASKET OF FEED AS THOUSANDS OF YOUNG HATCHLINGS GATHER AROUND. ABOVE VIEW THOUSANDS HATCHLINGS SWIMMING IN POND. 01:21:42 - LS LARGE ROCK FORMATION JUTTING OUT FROM COAST. CU TILT UP ROCK FORMATION. BUILDING AND LIGHTHOUSE SITTING ON THE ROCKY SHORE. CU LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER INSIDE CHECKS OUT THE MECHANISM WHICH CONTROLS THE LIGHT. WOMAN (WIFE ?) DOING SAME, TAKING NOTES. MS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER REPLACES LARGE BEACON IN THE TOWER. TURNS IT ON. THEN MAKES IT START ROTATING. CU FACE SHOT OF MAN AS LIGHT AS IT TURNS. SHINES BRIGHTLY ON HIS FACE.. FACE DARKENS AS LIGHT PASSES. 01:22:31 - VARIOUS VIEWS LIGHT TURNING AND SHINING THROUGH FOG. 01:22:51 - AMERICAN SINGER AND COMMUNIST PAUL ROBESON IS HONORED AT INDOOR RALLY. ROBESON WALKS TO PODIUM TO CHEERS OF AUDIENCE. CU ROBESON JOINS AUDIENCE IN SELF APPLAUSE. 01:23:13 - ROBESON ACCEPTS AWARD, GETS KISSED ON CHEEKS. WOMEN GIVE HIM FLOWERS, KISSES ON CHEEKS. ROBESON STANDS BEFORE CAMERA, SINGS BIBLICAL SONG TO "DANIEL". theater, hollywood, movies, politics, opera 01:24:21 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1958
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1325