- Title: VM-1333
- Summary: 27TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY 3: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV SPEAKS AT 27TH COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS. HE WAS LEADER OF SOVIET UNION FROM 1985 TO 1991, WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN TEARING DOWN BERLIN WALL, ENDING COLD WAR, PERESTROIKA,. ENDING RULE OF COMMUNIST PARTY IN RUSSIA, HE RECEIVED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1991.
- Description:00:35:27 - CU SAYING BY LENIN AND SIGNED BY HIM (IN RUSSUAN), ZOOM BACK SHOWS PICTURE OF LENIN ON DOCUMENT. RUSSIAN TITLE WITH "XXVII" (27 TH CONGRESS OF SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY). 00:35:33 - MLS LJT UP KREMLIN WALL AT NIGHT WITH LARGE DRAWING OF STANDING LENIN, AUTO TRAFFIC IN F/G. 00:35:38 - LS LARGE STATUE OF LENIN (NIGHT) IN SQUARE. TRAFFIC IN F/G. MS SAME. MLS GUARDS STAND AT ATTENTION AT LENIN GRAVE AT BASE OF KREMLIN WALL. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS CARRY LARGE WREATH TO PLACE AT GRAVE, AS GORBACHEV ABD OTHER LEADERS FOLLOW (NIGHTIME). CU SAME, MS GORBACHEV, GROMYKO AND OTHERS ALL IN FUR HATS, WINTER COATS, STAND AT ATTENTION. MLS VIEW LANDMARK CLOCK TOWER ALL LIT UP. 00:36:24 - OLD FILM SHOWING LENIN MAKING ANIMATED SPEECH FROM PLATFORM ( RECORDED VOICE HEARD IN B/G)> 00:36:41 - MS LARGE STATUE OF LENIN IN FRONT OF HUGE RED FLAG OVERLOOKS AND DWARFS THE DAIS AND CROWD OF DELEGATES IN HUGE HALL (KREMLIN PALACE OF CONGRESS ?). SLOW ZOOM BACK SHOWING SPECTACULAR VIEW OF SIZE OF STATUE AND FLAG IN RELATION TO THOSE IN AUDIENCE, AND SHOWS LEADERS FILING INTO SEATS ON DAIS. MS VIEW OF AUDIENCE OF COMMUNIST MALE FEMALE DELEGATES ALL APPLAUD. 00:37:15 - MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (FAMILIAR BIRTH MARK ON FOREHEAD) STANDS AT DAIS AND READS FROM PREPARED DOCUMENT. ELDERLY ANDREY GROMEYKO AND OTHERS SEATED IN B/G. ALL ON DAIS, INCLUDING GORBACHEV, APPLAUD.. MS HUGE AUDIENCE GIVE STANDING OVATION. MCU PAN AUDIENCE. ZOOM IN ON MAN'S HAND CLAPPING, ZOOM AWAY PAN TO DAIS WITH ALL STANDING AND APPLAUDING. 00:38:07 - LS ABOVE VIEW DAIS AND GORBACHEV CONTINUING HIS SPEECH. MS SAME. MORE APPLAUSE AFTER EACH PAUSE FROM GORBACHEV..CU FEMALES IN AUDIENCE. 00:40:20 - GORBACHEV WALKS OFF DAIS TO PODIUM WHERE HE MAKES LONG SPEECH, LAYING OUT HIS PROGRAM. STANDING OVATION AS GORBACHEV WALKS TO PODIUM. 00:40:49 - VARIOUS GOOD ANGLE SHOTS OF GORBACHEV AS HE MAKES LONG SPEECH FROM PODIUM. (SHOWN IN UTS ENTIRETY). AUDIENCE OF THOUSANDS REACTION, MANY TAKE NOTES.. GOOD SHOTS OF HUGE MODERN AUDITORIUM 00:51:15 - GORBACHEV FINISHES SPEECH, WALKS BACK TO PODIUM WHERE HE JOINS IN STANDING OVATYION 00:51:49 - GORBACHEV ASKS ALL TO STAND IN SINGING OF SOVIET NATIONAL ANTHEM. PAN SPECTACULAR VIEW OF AUDITORIUM , DAIS, AND AUDIENCE AS ALL STAND AND SING NATIONAL ANTHEM. ALL APPLAUD AFTERWARDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1986
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1333