- Title: VM-1366
- Summary: RUSSIAN NEWS: # N-3 - 1959
- Description:00:43:55 - CU NEWS HEADLINE IN U. S. NEWS , NEWS CHRONICLE, "RUSSIA SHOOTS AT MOON", DAILY MAIL "REDS FIRE AT MOON", DAILY WORKER, "MAN MACE PLANET", AND OTHERS. MS TILT DOWN FROM RADIO TOWER TO MAN IN RADIO STATION IN MOSCOW, TURNING DIALS ON CONTROL BOARD. CU TAPE MACHINE PRINTING OUT DATA. 00:44:33 - MLS MEN IN WHITE COATS IN OBSERVATORY PEERING THROUGH GIANT TELESCOPE.. MLS PAN FROM SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS TO OBSERVATORY BUILDING IN REMOTE AREA. CU YOUNG MAN LISTENS TO SOUNDS IN EARPHONES , TURNS UP DIAL ON SHORT WAVE RADIO. CU DIAL ON GAUGE SHOWING MOVEMENT. CU OSCILLOSCOPE SHOWS READING. CROWDS OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT BUILDING WAITING FOR NEWS OFFICIALS APPEAR ON BALCONY, PEOPLE CHEER. CU MAN'S HANDS HOLDING NEWSPAPER WITH HEADLINES IN RUSSIAN 00:45:27 - CHINESE OFFICIAL AT PODIUM TELLS NEWS TO ALL CHINESE AUDIENCE. UNIDENTIFIED CHINESE OFFICIALS MEETING IN LIBRARY ROOM HAVING TEA AND DISCUSSING NEWS. CU CHINESE LEADER WITH EARPHONE SPEAKS TO CAMERA. 00:45:51 - MAN WITH GLASSES PEERS SKYWARD BEFORE PEERING THROUGH TELESCOPE IN FRONT OF HIM. ZOOM IN ON MOON. 00:46:04 - AERIAL VIEW CITYSCAPE WITH SKYSCRAPERS (NEW YORK?) - MS BEVY OF CAMERAMEN TAKE SHOTS OF SOVIET FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER, ANASTAS MIKOYAN AS HE EXITS LIMO IN CITY, ENTERS HOTEL, MEETS WITH U. S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES. TWO POSE FOR CAMERAS. VARIOUS SHOTS MIKOYAN VISITING AMERICAN SUPER MARKET WITH AIDES AND PICKING OUT FOOD STUFFS AS HE WALKS AROUND WITH FOOD CART, THEN CHECKING THEM OUT AT FEMALE CASHIER AS BEVY PHOTOGS TAKE SHOTS. CU FOOD CART WITH VEGETABLES, JARS. CU MIKOYAN TAKES MONEY OUT OF WALLET, PAYS CASHIER THEN LEAVES IN LIMO. 00:47:38 - MS MIKOYAN MEETS VICE PRESIDENT NIXON, THEY POSE. 00:48:11 - MLS SURVEYORS AT WORK AT CONSTRUCTION SITE IN ARCTIC-LIKE AREA. LARGE UPRIGHT TUBULAR STACKS BEING RAISED INTO PLACE BY CRANE. PAN INDUSTRIAL SITE LOOK LIKE OIL REFINERY WITH STORAGE TANKS. WORKERS AT SITE SET OFF EXPLOSIONS IN THE BARREN FROZEN SNOW. PAN TO ESKIMOS AND THEIR ANIMALS WATCHING THE CONSTRUCTION. MEN AT OIL DERRICK DRILLING FOR OIL. LS TOWERING OIL RIG. LARGE CRANE SITS AMID APARTMENT BUILDINGS. AERIAL VIEW HUNDREDS BARRACKS LIKE BILDINGS COVERING WIDE AREA. 00:52:01 - MLS OBSERVATORY WITH TWO OBSERVATION DOMES. LONG SERIES RADAR TOWERS. HANGING WIRES ON RADAR TOWERS (?) 00:52:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG FEMALE ATHLETE DOING FLOOR EXERCISES AS CROWD WATCH IN STANDS, PHOTOGS TAKE SHOTS. ANOTHER FEMALE ATHLETE DOING EXERCISES ON BALANCE BEAM. 00:53:17 - LS MALE ATHLETE DOING FLOOR EXERCISES, ACROBATICS. ANOTHER MAN DOING EXERCISES ON POMMEL HORSE. ATHLETE DOING EXERCISES ON HIGH BAR. GREAT DISMOUNT. sports gymnastics. # N-4 - 1959 00:54:47 - MS NIKITA KHRUSCHEV MEETS WITH FOREIGN DIGNITARIES IN KREMLIN, THEY POSE FOR CAMERA. MS VARIOUS VIEWS UNIDENTIFIED DIPLOMAT PRESENTING HIS CREDENTIALS TO SOVIET LEADER. 00:56:06 - VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, SOCIALIST, HISTORIAN, WRITER, POET, SCHOLAR AND SOCIALIST W. E. B. DUBOIS, RECEIVING LENIN PEACE PRIZE AT 93 YEARS OLD. 00:56:33 - ABOVE VIEW OIL REFINERY, RUSSIAN WORKERS IN CONTROL ROOM OF REFINERY MEN, WOMEN CHEMISTS (?) WORKING IN LAB. 00:57:40 - VARIOUS VIEWS MEN, WOMEN WORKING UN MACHINE SHOP. MCU WOMAN AT LATHE. YOUNG FEMALE TEACHER AT TEACHING CHEMISTRY (?) BLACK BOARD IN B/G 00:58:01 - ABOVE VIEW ENDLESS LINE OF TANK CARS ROLLING ON RAILROAD TRACK. CU UNIFORMED ENGINEER AT CONTROLS. VIEW OF LONG LINE OF FREIGHT (BOX CZARS, TANK CARS, ETC.) AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE. AS SEEN FROM TRAIN AS IT TAKES CURVE ON BRIDGE. MS ENGINEER PEERS OUT WINDOW OF DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE, TOWARDS CAMERA AS HE SLOWLY COMES TO STOP. 00:58:30 - LS INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WITH SMOKING STACKS OBLITERATING VIEW OF COMPLEX. VARIOUS VIEWS FIERY MOLTEN STEEL BEING POURED, ABOVE PAN OF FURNACE AREA. 00:59:00 - LS STRIP MINING SITE WITH CRANES AND DERRICKS. VARIOUS SHOTS MAN OPERATING DERRICK. LARGE BUSKET OF ORE POURING ONTO PILE. CU VIEW HUGE SCOOP SCOOPING UP ORE BY THE TON. GOOD ABOVE SHOT OF DERRICK AT WORK, DUMPING BUCKET OF ORE INTO DUMP TRUCK., TRUCK PULLING AWAY. TRUCKS, TRAINS PULLING AWAY FROM SITS WITH LOADS OF ORE. 00:59:49 - VARIOUS VIEW NEW, MODERN BUSES. CU INSIDE BUS, DRIVERS COMPARTMENT AND PLUSH SEATS. MCU BUS PULLS OUT OF GARAGE TOWARDS CAMERA, HAS LOGO LIKE GREYHOUND BUS EXCEPT IT IS A LEAPING LION. 01:00:17 - INSIDE MANUFACTURING PLANT MAKING LARGE PREFABRICATED WALL-LIKE UNITS FOR APARTMENT HOUSES, LS VIEW CRANE LIFTING PREFABRICATED UNITS AT APARTMENT HOUSE SITE, 0` 00 48 CU ROLLING WAVES AND ROUGH WATERS OD RIVER RAPIDS, TILT UP TO CLIFFS AND HILLS SURROUNDING RAPIDS. CU MAN IN WOOLEN HAT AND COAT SPEAKS ON PORTABLE PHONE AS ANOTHER PUSHES LEVER WHICH SETS OFF HUGE EXPLOSION WHICH LEVELS A LARGE HILL. AND SENDS HUGHE CLOUD OF DIRT AND DUST OVER AREA. VARIOUS VIEWS WORKERS APPLAUDING RESULTS. 01:01:55 - CU VARIETY COUNTRIES FLAGS WAVING IN WIND AT SITE OF WINTER SPORTS EVENTS. LS SKIERS FLYING THROUGH AIR AS THEY LEAVE RAMP IN SKI JUMP COMPETITION. ONE FALLS SKIDS DOWN ON HIS SIDE. ABOVE VIEW SKIER, BACK TO CAMERA STARTS DOWN RAMP. FRONT VIEW SKIER IN FLIGHT AFTER LEAPING OFF EDGE OF RAMP MORE OF SAME (VOICE OVER GIVES NAMES IN RUSSIAN). VARIOUS SHOTS SKIERS ON CROSS COUNTRY COMPETITION, THROUGH WOODS, DOWN SMALL HILLS. CU OFFICIAL HAND HOLDING TIME CLOCK, WINNER CROSSING FINISH LINE. WINNERS POSING. # N-2 - 1959 01:03:50 - SOVIET UNMANNED MOON SHOT - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES TELLING OF RECENT SOVIET UNION SPACE EXPLORATION EDITORIAL CARTOONS SHOWING MOON AND SPACE VEHICLE. 01:04:11 - CARTOON SHOWING ROCKET SHIP IN FLIGHT SENDING SIGNALS WHICH ARE PICKED UP BY RADAR ON EARTH. MS COMMUNICATION CENTER WITH MEN, WOMEN, WORKING AT RADIO CONTROL PANELS. 01:04:43 - CU WOMAN'S HANDS AT CONTROLS OF SHORT WAVE RADIO. MAN TURNS AWAY FROM SHORT WAVE RADIO, LIFTS HIS EARPHONES, SPEAKS TO CAMERA. FEMALE, MALE, FACTORY WORKERS LISTENING TO RADIO. MLS OBSERVATORY WITH SEVERAL DOMED OBSERVATION TOWERS. CU ELDERLY SCIENTIST PEERING THROUGH TELESCOPE[E IN OBSERVATORY. NEWS ANCHOR ANNOUNCING OVER MICROPHONE. LARGE PHOTO OF MOON IN B/G. CU SAME. YOUNG MALE FACTORY WORKER PROUDLY TELLS HOW HE FEELS ABOUT EVENT, OTHER WORKERS GOING UP, DOWN, ESCALATORS IN B/G 01:06:38 - CARTOON OF SPACE EXPLOIT, ELDERLY MAN LOOKING OVER SHOULDER OF CARTOONIST AS HE DRAWS. CU DRAWING. 01:07:17 - VARIOUS LANDMARK BUILDINGS IN SOVIET REPUBLIC (?) MS VIEW LARGE THEATER WITH SEVERAL BALCONIES (BOLSHOI (?) CROWD IN AUDIENCE APPLAUDING. MS DAIS WITH SOVIET LEADERS INCLUDING MIKITA KHRUSCHEV APPLAUDING BACK. SPEAKERS ADDRESS AUDIENCE. PAN TENS OF THOUSANDS PEOPLE IN LARGE CITY SQUARE WITH STATUE OF LENIN IN CENTER, TO LARGE APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH SOVIET LEADERS INCLUDING KHRUSCHEV IN FUR HAT ON BALCONY WITH MANY OTHER SOVIET LEADERS. PAN PEOPLE APPLAUDING SPEAKER KHRUSCHEV. .01 08 42 LS CROWD GATHERS AROUND AIRLINER AS SOVIET LEADER ANASTAS MIKOYAN AND OTHERS EXIT PLANE AS MOVIE CAMERAS ROLL. MIKOYAN SPEAKS OVER MICROPHONES AS BEVY OF REPORTERS, PHOTOGS TAKE NOTES AND SHOTS. 01:09:47 - MS LARGE FAMILY SEATED AROUND DINNER TABLE WITH MAN AT HEAD OF TABLE HOLDING CHILD ON LAP. VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG WOMAN SEATED AT TABLE SHOWING PILE OF POSTER DRAWINGS AND DIPLOMA LIKE DOCUMENTS TO YOUNG MEMBERS OF FAMILY. 01:10:15 - LS SMOKE INUNDATES INDUSTRIAL PLANT (STEEL MILL). VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE STEEL MILL WITH FLOWING MOLTEN STEEL, AND WORKERS. 01:10:36 - MCU WIND BLOWN WAVES IN STORMY, ROUGH SEA MS ABOVE VIEW BOW OF LARGE OCEAN LINER AS IT SAILS THROUGH STORMY SEA. VARIOUS VIEWS OFFICER ENTERING CABIN WITH COUPLE AND CHILD, SITS AND INTERVIEWS THEM (ABOUT ACCOMMODATIONS (?). YOUNG WOMAN INTERVIEWS TWO MEN IN ANOTHER CABIN. LS SUN SETTING ON HORIZON POV LINER. 01:11:39 - UNIDENTIFIED ELDERLY MAN (PAINTER ?) PICKS BOOK FROM HIS LIVING ROOM LIBRARY. PAN WALL FULL OF VARIOUS SIZE PAINTINGS. CU SAME. 01:12:32 - LS LARGE AUDIENCE IN THEATER WATCH ONE RING CIRCUS ON CENTER STAGE. PERFORMERS DO VARIETY ACROBATIC ACTS. COUPLE ON SMALL ROUND TABLE DO PERFORMANCE ON SKATES. SPINNING AROUND IN CIRCLE. MAN IN AUDIENCE IS HELD BY SKATER AS HE DOES A GIANT DIZZYING SPIN ON TABLE. WHEN FINISHED DIZZY MAN STAGGERS AWAY FROM STAGE. TRAPEZE ARTISTS DO THEIR THING HIGH ABOVE AUDIENCE. CIRCUS CLOWN LIGHTS FIRE ON TOP HAT OF ANOTHER CLOWN. ANOTHER CLOWN WACKS MAN ON HEAD WITH AXE, AXE STAYS ON MAN'S HEAD MAN JUMPS ROPE ON TRAMPOLINE AS HE JUMPS THROUGH HULA HOOP AT SAME TIME.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1959
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1366