- Title: VM-1386C
- Summary: RUSSIAN NEWS:
- Description:03:21:52 - LS PAN VARIOUS SHOTS CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION IN SESSION IN HUGE AUDITORIUM WITH THOUSANDS DELEGATES AND LEADERS ATTENDING. VARIOUS SHOTS VARIETY MEN, WOMEN SPEAKERS AT PODIUM, EACH REPRESENTING HIS / HER REPUBLIC. VARIOUS SHOTS OF DELEGATES IN THEIR SEATS. 03:22:03 - PAN HUGH DAIS WITH LEADERS STANDING AND APPLAUDING EACH OTHER. VARIOUS MALE, FEMALE TAKE PODIUM, MAKE SPEECHES. NARRATOR EXPLAINS IN RUSSIAN. ALL STAND AS NIKITA KHRUSCHEV TAKES PODIUM, SPEAKS. ABOVE PAN MANY THOUSANDS APPLAUDING, PAN TO UNIDENTIFIED LEADER SPEAKER ON PODIUM. MCU WOMEN IN AUDIENCE. MCU WOMEN IN AUDIENCE STAND AND APPLAUD, AS DOPES THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE. LS KHRUSCHEV FIRMLY SHAKES SPEAKERS HAND. 03:23:59 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE AND STORY IN PRAVDA (OFFICIAL SOVIET UNION NEWSPAPER). LS GIANT OVERHEAD CRANES HOVER OVER LARGE FREIGHTER IN PORT. VARIOUS SHOTS CREWMEN IN ENGINE ROOM CHECKING GAUGES, WATCHING AS ENGINE REVS UP. 03:25:09 - CU WATER BEING POWERED OUT OF PIPE ONTO PILES OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE POTATOES (?). PAN TO MOUNTAIN OF SAME. MEN HOSING THEM DOWN. VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE INDUSTRIAL PLANT. MEN, WOMEN WEARING LAB COATS INSIDE PLANT DOING VARIETY TESTS. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG FEMALE WORKER. UNIDENTIFIED PRODUCT MOVING ON CONVEYOR, DROPPING INTO PILE, BEING WASHED DOWN WITH WATER OR CHEMICAL SPRAY. 03:26:24 - LS VIEW KREMLIN ALONG MOSCOW RIVER. VARIOUS SHOTS FOREIGN LEADER, DIPLOMAT ? PRESENTING CREDENTIALS TO SOVIET LEADER AT KREMLIN. BOTH SHAKE HANDS. 03:27:03 - VIEW OF TRACKS POV CONDUCTOR AS SUBWAY (?)TRAIN PASSES OUT OF TUNNEL ELEVATED TRACKS, THROUGH LARGE CITY WITH TALL BUILDINGS (MOSCOW (?) AND APPROACHING STATION. CU ENGINEER AT CONTROLS. VARIOUS SHOTS SUBWAY ENTRANCE, PEOPLE GOING THROUGH REVOLVING DOORS INTO AND OUT OF STATION. TRAIN ARRIVING AT PLATFORM, PEOPLE WALKING PLATFORM. 03:27:49 - AERIAL VIEW PAN TRAIN RIDING ON LONG ELEVATED TRACKS THROUGH LARGE CITY. VARIOUS SHOTS BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS PASSING THROUGH CITY. AUTO, BUS TRAFFIC PASSING APARTMENT COMPLEXES ALONG HIGHWAY. 03:28:19 - MS MS SEVERAL LARGE, LUMBERING, MOTOR HOME-LIKE VEHICLES WITH TANK TRACKS ON DIRT ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA. VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE UNITS WITH SERIES OF BUNK BEDS, PORT HOKE WINDOWS, AIRLINE TYPE PASSENGER SEATS, LUGGAGE RACKS. 03:29:03 - VARIOUS SHOTS NEW CAR MODELS (CIRCA 1950S (?) ON TOP TRANSPORTER, NEW CAR BEING DRIVEN INTO TRANSPORTER VIA RAMP. MLS OVERHEAD CRANE LOWERS ANOTHER CAR ON TOP OF TRANSPORTER ROOF WITH THE OTHERS. TRANSPORTER WITH CARS RIDING ON HIGHWAY. 03:29:47 - VARIOUS SHOTS TWO SOVIET FEMALE FENCERS (OLYMPIC ?) PREPARING FOR CONTEST, BETWEEN EACH OTHER. MS TWO FACE OFF ON PLATFORM AS AUDIENCE WATCHES. VARIOUS SHOTS CONTEST IN PROGRESS BOTH WEARING FACE MASKS. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS WINNER. THE TWO KISS AND SHAKE HANDS. VARIOUS SHOTS TWO MALE FENCERS PACING OFF. VARIOUS SHOTS DUEL IN PROGRESS. VARIOUS SHOTS WINNING MEN AND WOMEN FENCERS ON PLATFORMS BEING PRESENTED WITH MEDALS, FLOWERS, ALA OLYMPICS. 03:31:15 - PREFABRICATED WALL SECTION BEING MOVED BY CRANE AT CONSTRUCTION SITE IN N. KOREA (?) YOUNG ORIENTAL MAN (KOREAN) USES HAND SIGNALS TO DIRECT PLACEMENT OF UNIT. CU FEMALE (KOREAN ?) CRANE OPERATOR. VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG MALE, FEMALE WORKERS AT APARTMENT COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION SITE WORKING WITH SHOVELS, DIGGING. PAN APARTMENT COMPLEX UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 03:31:38 - MS PAN LARGE GROUPS KOREAN LITTLE GIRLS DANCING AND SINGING IN LARGE OPEN SCHOOLYARD AREA, CONDUCTED BY FEMALE TEACHERS. LS PAN TO LARGE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING WITH PAGODA ROOF. ABOVE PAN RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT COMPLEX. 03:32:11 - #43 (1958) 03:32:39 - LS KREMLIN WALL WITH FAMILIAR TOWERS AND BUILDINGS BEHIND WALL. MS VARIOUS SHOTS NIKITA KHRUSCHEV SHAKING HANDS WITH FOREIGN LEADER AND HIS ITINERARY, TAKING THEM AROUND TO MEET OTHER SOVIET LEADERS INCLUDING FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER ANASTAS MIKOYAN. KHRUSCHEV READS WRITTEN SPEECH AS CROWD DIPLOMATS AND WIVES IN BALLROOM LISTEN. FOREIGN MILITARY LEADER (GREECE ?) SPEAKS. 03:33:39 - VARIOUS SHOTS INDUSTRIAL PLANT (STEEL) UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SPARKS FROM WELDERS ON HUGE STRUCTURES, TOWERS. TILT DOWN HUNDREDS WORKERS GATHERED TO CELEBRATE COMPLETION OF PLANT. DIGNITARIES MAKING SPEECHES. VARIOUS VIEWS STEEL WORKERS INSIDE PLANT, MOLTEN STEEL, FURNACES. 03:34:39 - VARIOUS SHOTS GIANT REAPERS HARVESTING COTTON IN HUGE COTTON FIELD. PAN NATIVE WORKERS (SIBERIAN OR MONGOLIAN) STOOPED OVER PICKING COTTON IN FIELD. YOUNG NATIVE WOMAN WORKER PICKING COTTON. MAN WITH ISLAMIC SKULL CAP DOING SAME. 03:35:19 - CARAVAN TRUCKS PACKED HIGH WITH BALES COTTON ON HIGHWAY TOWARDS CAMERA. 03:35:31 - VARIOUS SHOTS MEN WOMEN PERUSING ART NIN ART GALLERY. VARIOUS PAINTINGS OF LENIN CONFERRING WITH FOLLOWERS. PAINTINGS OF REVOLUTION. PAINTINGS OF SOVIET MEN AND WOMEN TOILING FOR THE CAUSE. AIRMAN PULLING HIS PARACHUTE AFTER LANDING IN FIELD. OTHER PATRIOTIC WAR SCENES. 03:37:04 - CU MAN PAINTING NAME AND NUMBER ON SIDE OF EXCURSION BOAT AT DOCK. YOUNG MEN, WOMEN SPRUCING UP, PAINTING, SOME WELDING, ON BOAT. GROUP OF PEOPLE ON DOCK WATCH AS BOAT BEGINS TO LEAVE. CU YOUNG CAPTAIN AT HELM. MLS EXCURSION (? FERRY (?) BOAT SAILS DOWN RIVER. 03:37:54 - LS PAN SMALL VILLAGE NEAR WATERWAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. CU YOUNG FEMALE BRICKLAYER LAYING BRICKS, PAN TO OTHER WOMEN, SOME MEN, DOING SAME AT CONSTRUCTION SITE. TILT DOWN GIANT OVERHEAD CRANE TO LINE FEMALE WORKERS LAYING BRICK ON WALL OF BUILDING. ABOVE PAN SITE. 03:38:51 - PAN YOUNG MALE, FEMALE, STUDENTS WORKING ON LATHES IN SHOP CLASS (?) INSTRUCTOR CIRCULATES. VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG FEMALE WORKERS AT MACHINES IN FACTORIES. 03:39:44 - VARIOUS VIEWS YOUNG SCIENTISTS, WEATHERMEN (?) ATTACHING STRANGE LOOKING WEATHER INSTRUMENT (?) ON ROPE LIFTING IT UP TO HIGH TOWER IN MIDDLE OF FOREST. YOUNG MAN CLIMBS UP CENTER (LADDER) INSIDE TOWER TO TOP, HIGH ABOVE FOREST. TO CHECK INSTRUMENT. MEN INSIDE CONTROL ROOM CHECK READINGS ON GAUGES. LS MAN ATOP TOWER HIGH ABOVE FOREST TREES. 03:40:59 - VARIOUS VIEWS RUSSIAN CIRCUS ENTERTAINERS MARCH OUT INTO CENTER RING DRESSED IN EVENING GOWNS AND TUXES, TO CROWD APPLAUSE. LS TWO PAIRS TRAPEZE ARTISTS DOING DARING ACT HIGH ABOVE CROWD. YOUNG GROUP IN AUDIENCE WATCH IN AWE. WOMAN IN CENTER RING, DOING REMARKABLE BALANCING ACT WITH TWO MALE ASSOCIATES. VARIOUS SHOTS GROUP MEN, WOMEN, DOING HIGH WIRE ACT. WOMAN JUMPS FROM HUGE POST TO SHOULDERS ON MAN DOING BALANCING ACT ON HIGH WIRE. 03:42:59 - #45 (1958) 03:43:27 - AWARDS MEETING IN LARGE AUDITORIUM. CROWD APPLAUD AS LEADER HANDS OUT AWARDS TO VARIOUS MEN. 03:43:59 - AERIAL VIEW LONG LOW BRIDGE ACROSS RIVER WITH HUGE NET STRUNG ACROSS TO ALLOW LIGHTING TO BE ATTACHED TO IT SO WORKERS CAN WORK AT NIGHT (?) TO DAM UP RIVER FOR POWER PLANT (?). CU HUGE NET STRUNG HUGH ABOVE BRIDGE. 03:44:27 - VARIOUS VIEWS DUMP TRUCKS DUMPING DIRT AND GIANT TRIANGULAR CEMENT BLOCKS (LOOK LIKE WW2 TANK BARRIERS USED TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF ARMY TANKS), INTO WATER OFF BRIDGE. TRUCK AFTER TRUCK DUMPING STUFF INTO WATER DAY AND NIGHT, TO DAM RIVER. CU HUGE CEMENT BLOCKS CRASHING TRUCK AFTER TRUCK CARRYING AND DUMPING THE HUGE BLOCKS. INTO RIVER. CROWD ON RIVER BANK WATCHES. 03:45:44 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG MEN WORKING ON LARGE SHIP IN SHIPYARD. WELDING, GRINDING,. LS PAN ALMOST COMPLETED SHIP IN DRYDOCK. 03:46:33 - LS GRAND KREMLIN PALACE IN MOSCOW KREMLIN. MS VARIOUS SHOTS UNIDENTIFIED FOREIGN MINISTER HANDING CREDENTIALS TO RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN TRADITIONAL RITUAL. MINISTER READS FROM PREPARED TEXT, AMBASSADOR DOES SAME. THEY SHAKE HANDS TO FORMALIZE THE EVENT. 03:47:13 - MLS VIEW SOVIET THEATER BUILDING ALL LIT UP AT NIGHT. (GREEK ARCHITECTURE). VARIOUS VIEWS INSIDE BUILDING INCLUDING BALLROOM WITH LARGE COLUMNS, CHANDELIERS, A LARGE ART GALLERY, MOVIE THEATER. MS ROWS OF EMPTY SEATS IN THEATER, LOGES, BALCONY. LS PEOPLE ENTERING THEATER AT NIGHT. THEATER FULL WITH THOUSANDS PEOPLE WATCHING STAGE PLAY. VARIOUS SHOTS STAGE PLAY IN PROGRESS. POLITICAL PLAY (?) WITH ACTOR DEPICTING LENIN (?), SCENES TAKE PLACE IN LARGE STUDY. MCU VARIOUS SCENES SERIOUS FACED AUDIENCE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN PLOT. MORE OF PLAY IN PROGRESS. LENIN GETS DRAMATIC. 03:49:02 - MLS MARINA FULL WITH FISHING BOATS. FOUR FISHERMAN WALKING SIDE BY SIDE ON WHARF TOWARDS CAMERA. VARIOUS SHOTS SMALL RESIDENTIAL HOMES IN FISHING VILLAGE (?) TWO YOUNG BOYS AR T TABLE WORKING ON MAP. DAD PICKS UP BRIEFCASE, MOM ACCOMPANIES HIM OUTSIDE TO CAR PARKED OUTSIDER MODEST HOME. 03:50:11 - SPORTS - MS TWO SOCCER TEAMS TROT OUT TO FIELD. HUGE CROWD IN STANDS IN B/G. MCU LARGE ORNATE TROPHY SITS ON GROUND ON SIDELINES, TEAMS ON FIELD IN B/G. VARIOUS SHOTS SOCCER GAME IN PROGRESS. CU FACE SHOTS ENTHUSIASTIC FANS. PLAYERS KICKING BALL, FALLING TO GROUND. CROWD GETTING INTO IT AS FAVORITE TEAM SCORES. MS PLAYER OF WINNING TEAM ACCEPTS TROPHY, AS PHOTOGS TAKE SHOTS. 03:51:59 - MULTIPLE WEDDING - ABOVE VIEW SEVEN BRIDES AND GROOMS EACH RIDING IN CARAVAN OF HORSE AND BUGGIES, HUGE CROWD FAMILIES, FRIENDS, SPECTATORS LINE BOTH SIDES OF COBBLESTONE STREET, TO WATCH. CARAVAN RIDES INTO PARK WHERE CEREMONY WOLL BE PERFORMED (?). MS WEDDING COUPLES MARCH THROUGH CRUSHING CROWD TO OUTDOOR CEREMONY IN PARK. 03:52:19 - CU PHOTOGRAPHER TURNS ON STROBE LIGHT IN STUDIO. PAN SEVEN BRIDES AND GROOMS POSING FOR GROUP WEDDING PHOTO. 03:52:28 - VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE OUTDOOR BARBECUE (WEDDING DINNER) WITH HUNDREDS FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE. LONG LINE OF COOKS TOIL OVER ABOUT A DOZEN BARBECUES HANGING DOWN FROM OVERHEAD PIPE RACK. HUNDREDS PEOPLE SITTING, EATING AT PICNIC TABLES, BEING ENTERTAINED BY BAND, PLAYING POLKAS. VIOLIN PLAYER LEADS BAND. VARIOUS SHOTS WEDDING COUPLES DANCING ON DANCE FLOOR. 03:53:10 - #14 (1959) 03:53:39 - VARIOUS SHOTS FOREIGN LEADER AND ITINERARY Y EXIT PLANE, ARE GREETED BY SOVIET LEADERS AND PHOTOGS. PAN CROWD APPLAUDING WITH SMALL FLAGS IN HAND. ALL GET INTO LIMO. TAKE OFF. VARIOUS VIEWS MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION SITE FOR DAM (?) HYDRO- ELECTRIC STATION (?) SUPERVISED BY TWO DIGNITARIES WEARING FUR COATS AND HATS. MS PAN HUGE SITE WITH GIANT CRANES. 03:55:59 - VARIOUS SHOTS TOUR GROUP IN GIANT HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT ARE AWED BY MASSIVE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES. CU DIGNITARY SPEAKS TO GROUP. DEMONSTRATION BY MAN AT CONTROLS CAUSES LIGHTNING LIKE BOLTS (LIKE IN FRANKENSTEIN LAB). 03:56:47 - CU PICTURE OF YOUNG SHAKESPEARE (?) ON STAGE CURTAIN AT FAMED BOLSHOI THEATER. VARIOUS SHOTS ELDERLY ACTORS PERFORMING RUSSIAN VERSION SHAKESPEARE (?) ON STAGE ACTORS WEARING SHAKESPEAREAN ERA COSTUMES. AUDIENCE LAUGHTER AT COMICAL LINES. VARIOUS SHOTS BOLSHOI WELL-DRESSED AUDIENCE. MS DIGNITARY ON STAGE MAKES SPEECH TO AUDIENCE. 03:58:23 - HUGE PEACE RALLY IN ENGLAND - YOUNG CROWD GATHERING WITH SIGNS, PEACE SYMBOL. SIGNS: "THE BOMB TESTS MUST STOP", "AUSTRALIA", "FRANCE" , "CYPRUS". YOUNG WOMAN MARCHING WITH CHILD IN STROLLER, CHILD IN BABY CARRIAGE WITH PEACE SIGN. MAN MAKING SPEECH TO CROWD IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE. 03:59:24 - VARIOUS SHOTS MODERN FURNITURE ON DISPLAY IN STORE. YOUNG COUPLES EXAMINING THE FURNITURE. YOUNG GIRLS BEING SHOWN NEW CAR BY SALESMAN. 04:00:07 - SPORTS - SKIING. MS VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG SKIERS ON LIFT TOWARDS CAMERA. LS ABOVE VIEW OF SLOPES FROM TOP OF RUN. SKIERS TAKE OFF FOR RUN IN CONTEST. VARIOUS SHOTS SKIERS SPEEDING DOWN HILLS. SKIER FALLS, TOPPLES OVER. JUDGES WATCH SKIER SPEED PAST FINISH LINE. YOUNG MAN TAKES PHOTOS. 04:01:14 - VARIOUS SHOT SQUAD SOVIET YOUNG MEN (SOLDIERS ?) LINED UP IN SNOW BOUND FIELD AS ONE OF THEM (LOOKS LIKE TEENAGER), SALUTES HIS COMMANDER BEFORE CLIMBING INTO GLIDER. CU YOUNG MAN IN COCKPIT OF GLIDER AS REST OF SQUAD PULL THE PLANE UNTIL IT BECOMES AIRBOUND. CU FACE SHOT WIND BLOWN TEENAGER, WEARING AVIATOR HAT AND GOGGLES, IN COCKPIT WHILE IN FLIGHT. AERIAL VIEW SNOW BOUND AREA. POV GLIDER. MLS GLIDER COMES IN FOR LANDING ON SNOW. 04:02:14 - RUSSIAN ICE CAPADES - VARIOUS VIEWS CHORUS OF MALE, FEMALE SKATERS IN COLORFUL COSTUMES, PERFORM ON ICE. TROUP FORM CHORUS LINE ON ICE. FEMALE FIGURE SKATER PERFORMS WHILE TWIRLING A BATON, DOES ACROBATICS. MALE COMIC RUNS THROUGH AUDIENCE, THEN STUMBLES ONTO ICE DOING ALL SORTS OF CONTORTIONS TO KEEP HIS BALANCE UNTIL HE FINALLY FALLS DOWN. FACE SHOT MAN IN AUDIENCE CHUCKLING ALONG WITH REST OF AUDIENCE. MALE FIGURE SKATER DAZZLES AUDIENCE WITH IMPECCABLE PERFORMANCE. AUDIENCE STANDS AND CLAPS TO THE MUSIC AS ENTIRE CAST OF SKATERS COME OUT FOR FINALE. 04:04:07 - #17 (1959) 04:04:30 - CU PHOTO VLADMIR LENIN. - HUGE FACE PICTURE OF LENIN ON CURTAIN OF BOLSHOI THEATER IN MOSCOW. DAIS THER LENGTH OF THE STAGE, WITH SOVIET, COMMUNIST, LEADERS, IN FRONT OF CURTAIN. VARIOUS VIEWS MANY THOUSANDS LOYAL COMMUNISTS FILL THE THEATER AND ITS MANY BALCONIES. SOVIET LEADER LEONID BREZHNEV ADDRESS AUDIENCE FROM PODIUM. ANNIVERSARY COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION (?). 04:06:23 - VARIOUS VIEWS DIGNITARIES TOURING HUGE MACHINE PLANT. CU EACH ONE ADDRESSES CAMERA. VARIOUS SHOTS AUTOMATED MACHINERY AT WORK. 04:07:42 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE STATUE FAMED RUSSIAN DWARFS PASSING PEDESTRIANS. SEVERAL WOMEN LAYS FLOWERS AT BASE OF STATUE. YOUNG MAN TAKES PHOTOS. MS YOUNG RUSSIAN SCULPTOR, WITH BEARD, SPEAKS TO CAMERA. BUSTS OF LENIN AND OTHER FAMOUS RUSSIANS IN B/G. CU BUST OF LENIN, AND OTHER. MS SCULPTOR WORKING ON BUST WITH HAMMER AND CHISEL. 04:08:48 - LS GRAND KREMLIN PALACE WITH TOWER AND KREMLIN WALL IN F/G - SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER (?) STANDS STIFFLY AT ATTENTION AS HE FACES FOREIGN LEADER (AMBASSADOR) IN FORMAL MILITARY UNIFORM, WHO HANDS THE SOVIET LEADER HIM HIS CREDENTIALS IN TRADITIONAL RITUAL. 04:09:19 - LIT UP SIGN, "MOCKBA" (MOSCOW) ON AIRPORT BUILDING, SNOW FALLING. SOVIET LEADERS WAIT IN SNOW AS FOREIGN DIGNITARIES EXIT AIRLINER AT MOSCOW AIRFIELD, THE VISITORS ARE GREETED WARMLY, ALL SHAKE HANDS, CHAT. 04:09:54 - PAN HUGE NEW SOVIET TURBO-JET AIRLINER ON TARMAC WITH CROWD CREWMEN, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND DIGNITARIES AS WELL AS PASSENGERS PREPARING TO BOARD ON MAIDEN FLIGHT (?) CU FEMALE PASSENGER WITH CHILD IN ARMS IS INTERVIEWED. PAN LARGE AIRLINER "AEROFLOT" ( AIRLINES) WRITTEN ON FUSELAGE. VARIOUS SHOT PILOT, CO-PILOT AT CONTROLS.. VIEWS PASSENGERS IN SEATS. UNIFORMED STEWARDESS PASSES OUT MAGAZINES. SMALL CHILD IN SEAT. ANOTHER BY HER MOM. AERIAL VIEW RESIDENTIAL AREA ALONG RIVER. PLANE COMING IN FOR LANDING. VIEW OF LANDING FROM PASSENGER'S VIEW POINT. 04:10:59 - MS PAN FLOWERING TREES. GROUP MEN , WOMEN NATIVES OF UZBEKISTAN (?) WALKING ALONG FLOWERING TREES TO LARGE BUILDING HOUSING ART GALLERY. VARIOUS SHOTS UZBECK NATIVES, SOME WEARING ISLAMIC SKULL CAPS, PERUSING PAINTINGS ON WALL. CU VARIOUS VIEWS PAINTINGS DEPICTING UZBECK NATIVES LIFESTYLES. YOUNG COUPLE WITH ORIENTAL FEATURES DISCUSSING PAINTING. TEEN BOY WITH SKULL CAP PERUSING WALL PAINTINGS. 04:11:49 - MEN WOMEN IN KNEE DEEP WATER PULLING IN FISH NETS. CU FISH OF ALL SIZES SPLASHING AROUND IN NET AS IT IS PULLED IN. CU WIGGLING, THRASHING FISH FROM NET, EMPTIED ONTO DOCK . HUGE NET STRETCHING IN CIRCLE FROM BOAT IS SLOWLY PULLED IN VIA WINCH, FISHERMAN SIGNALS WITH ARMS TO WINCH OPERATOR. MEN AND WOMEN PULLING IN NET. FISHERMAN STRUGGLES TO LIFT HUGE FISH. ANOTHER POSES WITH HUGE FISH IN ARMS (STURGEON ?) FISHING INDUSTRY. 04:12:42 - BOLSHOI BALLET COMES TO NEW YORK - LS HEAVY CITY TRAFFIC, CROWD, OUTSIDE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK. LARGE BILLBOARDS UNDER SIGN "METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION", "THE BOLSHOI BALLET". VARIOUS YOUNG ,ALE, FEMALE BALLET FANS SEATED ON GROUND, SOME READING PAPERS, OTHERS LEANING AGAINST WALL, PROBABLY WAITING THROUGH THE NIGHT TO GET INTO THE THEATER, CUPS OF COFFEE IN HAND, SMOKING, READING BOOKS, SLEEPING ON GROUND AGAINST WALL OF THEATER, ANXIOUSLY AWAITING OPENING OF THEATER. TWO YOUNG GIRLS SITTING ON GROUND KNITTING. MIDDLE AGED COUPLE SEATED ON GROUND READING SHEET MUSIC. LS THEATER OPENS AT NIGHT, LINE OF ENTHUSIASTS BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THEATER. ELITE BEGIN ARRIVING BY LIMO, FURS, EVENING GOWNS, TUXEDOES. 04:13:39 - MLS BALLET IN PROGRESS, PRIMA BALLERINA DANCES, ACCOMPANIED BY CAST IN MEDIEVAL COSTUMES. AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AS DANCERS TAKE BOWS. CAST APPLAUDS BACK (RUSSIAN STYLE). CLASSICAL DANCE, MUSIC. 04:14:19 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1958
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1386C