- Title: VM-1366
- Summary: 27TH CONGRESS OF CPSU: 27TH CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION (CPSU) WHERE GORBACHEV INTRODUCED "GLASNOST" (OPENNESS AND "PERESTROIKA" (RESTRUCTURING). THE NEXT CONGRESS (28TH) WAS THE LAST AND THE END OF COMMUNIST PARTY RULE IN RUSSIA. MEETING INCLUDES COMMUNIST LEADERS OF ALL REPUBLICS AND VISITING WORLD COMMUNIST LEADERS.
- Description:00:09:42 - ZOOM AWAY FROM LARGE STAR ON SPASSKAYA TOWER ON CORNER OF KREMLIN WALL TO PANORAMIC VIEW OF KREMLIN AND ITS ENVIRONS. ZOOM IN LARGE PICTURE OF LENIN COVERING MOST OF THE FACADE ON OLD LANDMARK BUILDING (LENIN RESIDENCE ?). VARIOUS VIEWS INSIDE BUILDING, OFFICE LIVING ROOM, WITH MANY ARTIFACTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO LENIN. CU HIS DESK.. LARGE BANNERS HANG OVER WIDE CITY STREETS WITH TWO-WAY AUTO TRAFFIC. MEN, WOMEN IN FUR COATS WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA. CU HAND HOLDING SOVIET OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER "PRAVDA" TELLS STORY OF 27TH CONGRESS OF CPSU. HEADLINE PHOTO OF HUGE STANDING LENIN IN GREAT MEETING HALL. OF STATE KREMLIN PALACE. LARGE GROUP DELEGATES (?) ALL WEARING ALIKE BLACK FUR HATS, SOME WOMEN, WALK TO MEETING HALL. TOWARDS CAMERA. PAN SQUARE TO STATE KREMLIN PALACE ON LEFT INSIDE KREMLIN WALL. 00:11:16 - CU SIGN ON WALL 27TH COMMUNIST PARTY MEETING (IN RUSSIAN), PAN TO LARGE STANDING LENIN STATUE. LS HUGE DAIS WITH LEADERS AUDIENCE IN F/G LENIN IN B/G 00:11:42 - VARIOUS SPEAKERS ADDRESS DELEGATES, AS CAMERA SCANS THE AUDIENCE AND DAIS. VOICE OVER ANNOUNCES NAMES OF SPEAKERS (IN RUSSIAN) 00:14:29 - MS MIHAEL GORBACHEV ON DAIS. MS KAZAKHSTAN SPEAKS FROM PODIUM, SPEAKERS OF VARIETY COUNTRIES SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES 00:16:31 - PAN HUGE AUDIENCE AND TWO BALCONIES. 00:17:24 - GROUPS DIGNITARIES, LEADERS, DELEGATES MEET IN HUGE LOBBY AND CHAT AS CAMERAMEN TAKE SHOTS OF THE GROUPS. 00:18:32 - MCU HUGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICERS IN AUDIENCE TAKING NOTES. AS LEADER FROM LITHUANIA, THEN LATVIA SPEAK. 00:19:10 - MLS ALL MEMBERS ON DAIS STAND AND APPLAUD AS COMMUNIST LEADER OF ONE OF THE SOVIET REPUBLICS TAKES PODIUM. CU MIDDLE-AGED DELEGATE WITH CHEST FULL OF MEDALS. 00:20:12 - SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNIST LEADER MAKING SPEACH AT PODIUM. 00:21:14 - GORBACHEV AND OTHERS ON DAIS STAND AND APPLAUD AS ASIAN MAN SPEAKS. 00:21:47 - ZOOM IN CLOCK ON SPASSKAYA TOWER AS IT CHIMES AT 4:00 PM. MS VARIOUS COMMUNIST MALE, FEMALE, LEADERS SPEAKING AT PODIUM. CU PAN FACES IN AUDIENCE, SOME WITH EARPHONES LISTEN TO TRANSLATED MESSAGES. 00:23:19 - ABOVE VIEW OF GREAT HALL CROWDED WITH DELEGATES AS SOVIET HONOR GUARDS PARADE DOWN AISLE TO DRUM BEAT AND STANDING AUDIENCE HAND CLAPPING. CU HONOR GUARD OFFICER WITH CHEST FULL OF MEDALS STANDS AT ATTENTION DURING CEREMONY. CU WHITE GLOVED HANDS OF MILITARY BAND MEMBERS PLAYING TRUMPETS. OFFICER ON PODIUM READS DECREE. PAN MILITARY GUARDSMEN IN NEAT LINES DOWN THE AISLES. 00:25:10 - VARIOUS SHOTS MORE WORLD COMMUNIST LEADERS TAKING PODIUM AND SPEAKING, INCLUDING WILLIAM KASKTAN OF CANADA. OTHERS SPEAKING VARIETY FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1986
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1366