- Title: VM-1345
- Summary: 26TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY: RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (NO ENGLISH TRANSLATION) - WORLD LEADERS MEET, SPEAK AT 26TH COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS IN MOSCOW.
- Description:00:07:57 - MS SPASSKAYA AND NIKOLSKAYA TOWERS IN THE KREMLIN, ZOOM AWAY ABOVE VIEW OTHER SNOW COVERED BUILDINGS WITHIN KREMLIN WALL IN MOSCOW. HUGE PICYURE OF LENIN ON WALL OF MODERN STATE KREMLIN PALACE, WHERE SOVIET COMMUNIST CONGRESS MEET. VARIOUS VIEWS PEDESTRIANS, TRTOLLY CARS ON BUSY MOSCOW BUSINESS DISTRICT. HUGE PHOTOS OF MARX, ENGELS AND LENIN ON FACADE OF GOVERNMENT BUILDING. LARGE PORTRAIN OF LEONID BREZHNEV ON LARGE BUILDING. ZOOM IN LARGE "XXVI" (26) AND OTHER RUSSIAN WORDS, ON FACADE OF HUGE CORNER BUILDING IN MOSCOW. (ADVERTISEMENT OF 26TH CONGRESS). 00:08:44 - CU BLACK NEWSMAN TYPING HIS STORY (?) ANOTHER MAN IN PHONE BOOTH SPEAKING ON PHONE. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS MEN ON PHONE. WOMAN ON PHONE PAN TO TV CAMERA BEING AIMED BY CAMERAMAN. 00:08:55 - ABOVE PPN CROWD DELEGATES TO 26TH CONGRESS IN LARGE LOBBY OF STATE KREMLIN PALACE BEFORE COMMENCEMENT OF MEETING. VARIOUS SHOTS MALE, FEMALE, DELEGATES, MOST WITH MEDALS ON THEIR LAPELS, HAVING DISCUSSIONS IN LOBBY. 00:09:09 - LS KING SIZE BUST OF LENIN TOWERING OVER DAIS OF DIGMITARIES STANDING, APPLAUDING LEADERS, INCLUDING BREZHNEV, FILING INTO THEIR SEATS. PAN AUDIENCE APPLAUDING. 00:09:34 - MS UNIDENTIFIED DIGNITARY STANDS TO SPEAK FROM DAIS, BREZHNEV SEATED ALONGSIDE HIM, FIDEL CASTRO (?) IN B/G. 00:09:49 - VARIOUS SHOTS SPEAKERS ADDRESSING AUDOIENCE, ANDREY GROMYKO, OTHERS, SEATED IN B/G, MORE PAN OPF AUDIENCE. ABOVE PAN OF DAIS AND LARGE AUDIENCE ON GROUND LEVEL AND TWO WRAP AROUND BALCONIES. 00:15:55 - LONG LINES OF MILITARY HONOR GUARDS, BOTH ARMY AND NAVY ENTER HALL, STAND AT .ATTENTION DOWN EACH AISLE, ALL STAND AND APPLAUDE AS THEY MARCH DOWN AISLES. 00:16:26 - ARMY GENERAL, SPEAKS AT PODIUM. CU VARIOUS FACE SHOTS OF ARMY AND NAVY MEN. 00:17:43 - AERIAL VIEW KREMLIN WALL ALONG MOSCOW RIVER AND KREMLIN BUILDINGS INSIDE WALL. 00:17:50 - END. * NOTE: (SEE VM-1946 FOR MORE OF 26TH CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST PARTY)
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1981
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1345