- Title: VM-1330
- Summary: RUSSIAN NEWS: # N-24 - 1980
- Description:00:43:32 - BREZHNEV ENTERS PALATIAL ROOM WITH HUGE ORIENTAL RUG ON FLOOR, CHRYSTAL CHANDELIERS HANGING FROM HIGH CEILING, PROCEEDS TO PIN ORDER OF LENIN (?) MEDALS ON SEVERAL ELDERLY MEMBERS IF THE SOVIET HIERARCHY 00:46:15 - LS KREMLIN PALACE BUILDING IN MOSCOW. COMMUNIST DIGNITARIES CLIMB UP STAIRCASE TO GRAND RECEPTION ROOM WHERE SOVIET LEADERS SIT AT DAIS FOR MEETING OF CONGRESS OF SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY (>). HELD AVERY FIVE YEARS. VARIOUS LEADERS SPEAK FROM PODIUM. AGING BREZHNEV AND KOSYGIN SIT ON DAIS WITH OTHERS. PEOPLE IN AUDIENCE RAISE THEIR HAND FROM TIME TO TOME (LIKE VOTING ON SOMETHING). VARIOUS VIEWS OF HUGE AUDIENCE OF DELEGATES. 00:50:08 - ABOVE VIEW HUGE DAM WITH CRANES ON TOP. HUGE CONSTRUCTION AREA WITH VARY LARGE CRANES AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT. PAN SEVERAL HUGE SMOKE STACKS (LIKE IN ATOMIC ENERGY PLANTS.. . VARIOUS VIEWS ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS AND TOWERS. VARIOUS VIEWS WORK BEING DONE ON DAM. ENORMOUS CRANES AND OTHER HEAVY EQUIPMENT BEING USED, PAN TO GIANT CRUSHING WHEEL GRINDING ROCKY HILD INTO SMALL ROCKS.. PAN LARGE CONTROL ROOM IN ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT (?) 00:50:48 - MS GIANT DERRICK SCOOPS HUGE BUCKET OF DIRT, ENOUGH TO FILL DUMP TRUCK IN ONE SCOOP, 00:50:51 - LARGE HARVESTER / COMBINES AT WORK ON WHEAT FARM. 00:50:57 - VARIOUS HEADLINES IN SOVIET NEWSPAPER "PRAVDA".. TILT DOWN STORIES. 00:51:09 - LARGE RALLY WITH WORKING CLASS MEN AND WOMEN SEATED IN LARGE ROOM WITH BANNERS, POSTERS PHOTOS OF BREZHNEV, LISTENING TO SPEAKERS ON STAGE. ABOVE VIEW RALLY. MEN, WOMEN WORKERS POSE. WORKERS RAISE THEIR HANDS AS IN "I AGREE" (?). CU PHOTO BREZHNEV. 00:52:54 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1980
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1330