- Title: VM-1359
- Summary: GLORY HEROES OF THE COSMOS: SPACE RACE - "SOYUZ 5" - THREE SOVIET COSMONAUTS BORIS VOLYNOV, ALEKSEI VELISEYEV YEVGENY KHRUNOV, ALEXANDER SHATALOV ARE HONORED BY SOVIET PEOPLE AND LEADERS INCLUDING BREZHNEV AFTER SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT IN SPACE VEHICLE SOYUZ 5. space flight, astronaut, space race, cold war.
- Description:00:01:18 - MLS SOVIET FOUR ENGINE AIRLINER IN FLIGHT, ACCOMPANIED BY SQUADRON OF MIG FIGHTER PLANES. PAN CROWD, REVIEWING PLATFORM WITH DIGNITARIES, SOVIET ARMY HONOR GUARD AND MILITARY BAND AWAIT LANDING OF AIRLINER CONTAINING FOUR COSMONAUTS. MS AIRLINER TAXIS TO A STOP ON TARMAC. CU PAN LOVING CROWD WAVING FLABS. LS COSMONAUTS AND SPACE OFFICIAL (?) EXIT AIRLINER WITH ENTOURAGE, MARCH SMARTLY DOWN RED CARPET AS ARMY BAND PLAYS IN F/G. CU PAN FACE SHOTS YOUNG WOMEN IN CROWD WAVING FLAGS AND SMILING LOVINGLY. THE FOUR COSMONAUTS SALUTE AS ONE AFTER THE OTHER LOUDLY REPORTS TO LEONID BREZHNEV AND OTHER LEADERS WHILE SALUTING. (VAPOR FROM COLD WEATHER EMITS FROM THEIR MOUTHS. PAN ENTIRE SOVIET HIERARCHY. BREZHNEV KISSED EACH ON LIPS AS DO OTHERS. CROWD OF CHILDREN GIVE ALL BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS. COSMONAUTS HUG AND KISS FAMILY MEMBERS. 00:04:33 - CU PAN ADORING, SMILING CROWD, MOSTLY YOUNG WOMEN, WAVING AND CHEERING AS COSMONAUTS AND LEADERS WALK BY. 00:04:56 - LS (B/W) ROCKET LAUNCH WITH "SOYUZ 5" ABOARD. - CU VARIOUS SHOTS (POOR QUALITY FILM) COSMONAUTS IN SPACE VEHICLE DOING VARIETY OF CHORES, INCLUDING DOCKING WITH SOYUZ 4. ON JANUARY 15, 1969. SPACE WALK WAS ALSO RECORDED. 00:06:38 - VARIOUS SHOTS SOVIET COSMONAUTS MOTORCADE AND HUGE CROWDS IN ROUTE PROUDLY CHEERING. 00:07:15 - AERIAL MOTORCADE CROSSING MOSCOW RIVER BRIDGE AND KREMLIN IN B/G. MS COSMONAUTS STANDING IN FLOWER COVERED OPEN LIMO. 00:07:50 - MCU PAN APPLAUDING CROWD INSIDE THEATER OF THE STATE KREMLIN PALACE, AS COSMONAUTS STAND AND APPLAUD BACK FROM DAIS. KIDS RUN UP WITH FLOWERS. MS PAN BREZHNEV, PODGORNY AND OTHERS APPLAUDING. EACH COSMONAUT MAKES SPEECH. 00:12:30 - VARIOUS SHOTS LEONID BREZHNEV TAKES PODIUM AND SPEAKS. 00:14:48 - PRESIDENT OF USSR NIKOLAI PODGORNY SPEAKS AS FOUR COSMONAUTS STAND BY PODIUM. PODGORNY GIVES EACH MAN A MEDAL AND A KISS. EVERYONE APPLAUDS FROM AUDIENCE AND STAGE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1969
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1359