- Title: VM-1361
- Summary: RUSSIAN NEWS: # N-40 - 1961
- Description:00:31:46 - VARIOUS VIEWS NIKITA KHRUSCHEV FOLLOWED BY LARGE ENTOURAGE VISITS LARGE IRRIGATION PROJECT WHICH SUPPLIES WATER TO FARM LANDS. VARIOUS SHOTS KHRUSCHEV AND GROUP VISITING FARM, CHECKS OUT LARGE CORN STALKS IN FIELD. IS OFFERED SNACK BY FARMER. ALL APPLAUD AS HE EATS SNACK. FARM WOMEN GIVE HIM FLOWERS. PAN CORN FIELD WHOSE STALKS TOWER ABOVE THE VISITORS. MCU KHRUSCHEV CHECKS OUT HUGE CORN ON CORN STALK. MS GROUP OF FARM WOMEN ALL WEARING BABUSHKAS, WATCH, SMILE. KHRUSCHEV CHECKS OUT FARM MACHINERY. 00:33:33 - KHRUSCHEV AND OTHERS SIT AT TABLE IN MIDST OF CORN FIELD, VARIETY OF FRUIT AND SLICES OF WATER MELLON SERVED TO HIM BY FARM WOMAN. 00:33:50 - LS PAN LARGE FACTORY WITH SMOKE STACK. ABOVE VIEW. VATS CHURNING UP THICK LIQUID (CHEMICAL) PRODUCING SYNTHETIC FABRIC (?) MS HUGE ROLLS OF HEAVY SYNTHETIC MATERIAL ROLLING ON LARGE MACHINES (LOOK LIKE HEAVY WHITE PAPER OR LINOLEUM). YOUNG WOMAN AT CONTROL PANEL IN CONTROL ROOM OPERATES MACHINERY FROM THERE (?). PAN SYNTHETIC (?) MATERIAL ROLLING THROUGH MACHINES. ABOVE VIEW WOMAN WORKER WALKS ON BRIDGE DIRECTLY ABOVE SHEETS OF THE MATERIAL ROLLING ON MACHINES BELOW. 00:34:35 - VARIOUS SHOTS WATER CHURNING AT BASE OF DAM. ABOVE VIEW GIANT GENERATOR BEING ASSEMBLED IN HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAM. MALE, FEMALE WORKERS AT WORK on GIANT ARMATURE FOR GENERATOR. 00:35:01 - CROWD OF ON-LOOKERS, INCLUDING KHRUSCHEV, WATCHING GIANT GENERATOR PART BEING LOWERED INTO PLACE ARE DWARFED BY SIZE OF THE PART (ARMATURE ?). 00:35:36 - MLS ON LARGE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS WITH GIANT SIZE PICTURES OF MARX, ENGELS AND LENIN ON FACADE, AS WELL AS SMALLER ONES OF OTHER LEADERS. CROWD ENTER HUGE STADIUM. WATCH FLOAT OF RE-ENACTMENT VIKINGS ROWING LONG BOAT. COSSACK HORSEMEN RIDE INTO STADIUM. 00:36:32 - CU ARABIC-LOOKING MAN WITH ISLAMIC SKULL CAP WALKS AMID LARGE COTTON FIELD. (UZBEKISTAN ?) PAN LARGE COTTON CROP. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN DRIVING HUGE COTTON HARVESTING MACHINERY IN FIELD, WHICH COLLECTS COTTON INTO LARGE BINS. BINS OF COTTON BEING DUMPED INTO DUMP TRUCKS IN FIELD. 00:37:03 - NURSE PRESENTS BABY, WRAPPED IN BLANKET TO UNIDENTIFIED MAN AS OTHER CU ZOOM IN BABY IN CRIB. NURSES WATCH.. MAN WITH BABY IN ARMS AND MOM, ARE CONGRATULATED BY DOCTOR AS NURSES WATCH. COUPLE WITH BABY LEAVE HOSPITAL AND ENTER CAR, AS LARGE CROWD WATCHES. 00:37:33 - WOMEN WEASRING SANITIZED GARMENTS, WHITE LAB COATS AND HATS CONTAINING SMALL MAGNIFIERS SIT AT LONG TABLES, WORKING ON SMALL UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS REQUIRING TWEEZERS. CU UNIDENTIFIED ELDERLY BALDING MAN WITH WHITE HAIR, MOUSTACHE WRITING SOMETHING. CROWD OF WOMEN, MEN. WAIT AT COUNTER BEHIND TELLER-TYPE WINDOWS AS WOMAN SITS AT DESK BEFORE EACH WINDOW AND FILLS OUT FORMS FOR THOSE WAITING. MS LONG WAITING LINE INSIDE BANK-LIKE BUILDING. LS ABOVE VIEW HEAVY BUS, AUTO. TRAFFIC ON SIX LANES IN CITY TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:38:21 - LS OLD DOMED BUILDING (WAS CATHEDRAL) BUS, AUTO, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC IN F/G. MS PAN SCAFFOLDING INSIDE CATHEDRAL WITH MEN WORKING RESTORING, CLEANING RELIGIOUS ICON, STATUES AND PAINTINGS. VARIOUS VIEWS ORNATE DOMED CEILINGS WITH RELIGIOUS PAINTINGS. RELIGIOUS WALL PAINTINGS INCLUDE LARGE PAINTING OF JESUS ASCENDING TO HEAVEN, CROWD WATCHES LARGE BALL PENDULUM SWINGING BACK AND FORTH FROM DOMED CEILING TO FLOOR. 00:39:18 - SPORTS- ICE HOCKEY- VARIOUS VIEWS HOCKEY GAME IN PROGRESS. SHOTS ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE. 00:40:21 - PAN LARGE CATHEDRAL IN PARIS. (NOTRE DAME ??) MS CROWD MEN WOMEN CHILDREN RUNNING IN STREET TO AIRPORT TO CATCH GLIMPSE OF SOVIET HERO, COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN. MS SOVIET AIRLINER TAXIS ON RUNWAY. YURI GAGARIN EXITS PLANE WAVING, APPLAUDING, CROWD. CRUSHING CROWD MOB GAGARIN. SHOWERING HIM WITH FLOWERS. HUGE CROWD LINE STREETS TO SEE GAGARIN IN MOTORCADE. MS GAGARIN SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS. GAGARIN MOBBED EVERYWHERE HE GOES. space race, astronaut. 00:41:47 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1963
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1361