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BALLET    (see also Dance list)                             

 

 

X221477        16:20:33 - 16:29:46           19??    SD  COL      USSR  

Art of the Baltic Republics  Pt. 3 of 3

INCLUDING:
16:20:33  Modern house & interior w/ fireplace.  Folk dance w/ wood shoes, chorus singing & folk music ensemble play music to accompany as people watch.  Stained or leaded glass.  Modern.  Public in big hall watch ballet dance on big screen.  Then stage seen. 
16:24:38 

           

220755-03   19:08:02 - 19:18:00            1920s - 1950s          SIL       B/W               

Various - Russia related - various places and dates
INCLUDING:
19:16:38  Montgomery  in Russia .  Interior Kremlin Stalin seated with Churchill and Harriman.  Evening reception - Molotov and wife - VIPs arrive for Bolshoi ballet ? VIPs in box watching performance.
 

250039-25   04:35:42 - 04:36:04            1930   SIL       B/W    USA     

INCLUDING:
04:35:51  Woman doing modern ballet dance in see-thru dress in New York City flower show.
04:36:00
           

220804          06:03:36 - 06:05:59            1931   SD        B/W    USA     

Broadway Nightlife Gets in Full Swing
Broadway at night with lights and traffic. Interior nightclub - floorshow - chorus girls singing and dancing doing semi-strip to song A Little Lingerie.   People at tables.  Girls dancing - leg kicking - groups at tables.  Different floor show, more like ballet
           

250039-35   04:45:33 - 04:46:31            1931   SIL       B/W    USA     

Menagerie Denizens Gape At Grotesque Penguin Ballet (1931)
04:45:40  LS Pool in zoo w/ people in penguin costumes; MCU bears looking thru bars; LS penquins looking at bars from behind fence, CU of people in costume w/ flipper feet walking past agitated bears.
04:46:11  LS people in circle, in line & women removing head covering.
 

A221131-07 10:04:39 - 10:08:50            1937   SD        B/W    Germany         

Gasparone (1937) excerpt
May be Gasparone (1937).
German musical feature film heavily influenced by Busby Berkeley starring Marika Rokk & Leo Slezak.
Banquet, singing and dancing.  Huge dance routine.

250038-11   02:10:06 - 02:12:01            1939   SIL       B/W    USA     

Title.
02:10:12  Spectators watching costumed ice skaters / chorus girls in show at World Fair.  MCU of skaters; spectators.  Man spinning on stilts w/ ice-skates.  Applause; couple in hillbilly costumes twirling & man puts woman onto ice as she keeps spinning.
02:11:20  Title:  World of Sports, The - Jones Beach.  Overhead of two men on waterskis, POV from boat as skiers take skis off.  High angle going over jump; spectators applauding.  Man & woman criss-crossing on skis.  Man goes over jump & falls.  MCU crowd laughing.  Repeats fall.
 
221251-01   13:00:12 - 13:10:21            1939; 1940; 1941   SD        B/W    Poland; USSR; EnglandThe White Eagle, August 1940 - March 1941  R1 or 3
Narrated by Leslie Howard
INCLUDING:
13:06:43   CU sign on the door Polish Heart center of cultural and social life for Poles sponsored by British Council.  UK & Polish flags next to the door, officials walk thru the hallway.   President of Polish Republic in exile, Raczkiewicz meets King Haakon VII of Norway; sit at table & drink cups off tea.  CU musicians play violins, LS plane over.   Ext. building of Anglo -Polish ballet, int. dance performance of Krakow Peasant Wedding.
13:07:34       

           

221713          11:11:30 - 11:14:17            194?   SD        B/W    USA     

Two Hearts That Pass In The Night 
w/ Bob Hannon, Danilo & Jean 
SOUNDIES ARE PD.  MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
11:11:43  Man in suit singing by painted backdrop of dock.  Apache style dancers dancing around the dock.  Focus on dancers. 
 
221023          20:35:38 - 20:44:58            1940s - 1950s?       SD        B/W    NORTH KOREA

38th Parallel  [Reel 5 of 5]
[Korean propaganda film on the events leading up to the crossing of the 38th parallel.  Reel 5 portrays North Korea as idyllic.]
North Korean children at ballet class, theatre workshop, music school and choir - vars North Koreans at home listening to children singing on radio.  Reconstruction and new buildings going up in North Korea.  CU train wheel  & pan of Korean countryside as seen from moving train.  Small islands in bay.  North Korean tourists at Diamond Mountain resort looking at the Koo Rong Hun falls and the Sin Ke Sa temple. 
20:38:04 

 

250076-04   06:16:54 - 06:29:53            1940s;            SIL       COL      USA
INCLUDING:
06:25:12  MCU girls feet practicing ballet dance in socks & barefoot.  Upper bodies jumping.  MCUs kids watching / singing.  Overhead shot of instructor & kids in large circle sitting on pavement.
06:26:45 

           

220866          12:14:29 - 12:22:20            1943   SD/ SIL           B/W    USA     

[USO Ballet Russe - Shipping films]
Military vehicles past entrance checkpoint at Fort Hancock.  CU sign Fort Hancock.  Servicemen queuing up to see Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance. - poster - USO.   Ballet Russe dance on stage - Ballet Prince Igor with Franz Allers conducting traditional Russian? or Caucasian? dance;  harem women with veils dance.  Much twirling. 
Good LS audience reactions.

220793          12:10:32 - 12:18:40            1944   SD        B/W    USA     

[WWII - Count Basie & Orchestra, Glee Club, Josh White]
MCU applause & Basie comes out & plays with orchestra on stage.  12:12:30 -  12:13:03 silent
Black 372nd Infantry Glee Club in front of large audience; sings.
02:14:02  Josh White playing guitar & sings The House I Live In, accompanied by bass player. Pearl Primus jazz ballet dancing to Josh White accompaniment & singing.  Oriental woman at mic.  Shots of audience of blacks & whites. Applauding.  '..Birthday Party in your honor.' (Paul Robeson?).  Applause.

           

221037          03:00:03 - 03:04:33            1946 ?           SD        b/w     RUSSIA

Montgomery in Russia
[Sd.]  Montgomery and others in ballroom of palace.  Montgomery with Stalin seated for photocall.  Montgomery wearing Russian cossack hat and coat with Stalin - joined by Molotov.  Staff car pulls up in snow - Montgomery out wearing huge fur coat - with Russian officers enters military academy - points to sign in Russian above entrance.  LS academy building - typical Eastern Bloc architecture.
03:01:27  EXT Opera House; INT Montgomery in uniform up steps with Russian officers on visit to see Profokiev ballet Romeo and Juliet; party into royal box.  Curtains part - VS ballet performance w/ first Soviet prima ballerina Galina Ulanova.  Applause.
03:03:06 

           

250049-13   01:01:22 - 01:08:27            1946; SD        B/W    USSR

[Post-WWII - 1946, Russian Newsreel, No 10-11]
INCLUDING:
01:04:23  High angle of Moscow Red Square w/ snow on ground.  Soviet general (?) walking across bridge; exterior of Bolshoi Ballet & posters, pedestrians & electric buses.  People reading newspaper w/ picture of Stalin on front page.  building w/ posters of Stalin, Molotov and others.  Well dressed people along sidewalk & enter building (named in narration).  Int. & various people putting ballots in box. 
01:05:42

NOTE:  May be Stalin speech behind some of images.

220886          03:55:00 - 03:59:07            1947   SD                    GERMANY       

Welt im Film - Was wird mein Junge? Lehrlinge in der Ausbildung (Apprenticed)
Vars shots engineering apprentices training with Reichsbahn; int GVs training academy for construction; shipbuilding; tiling; baking; int GVs children dancing at Ballet School; wig making - hairdressing ; coal mining in Ruhrgebiet; apprentices graduate who began under National Socialism; girls learn Market Gardening and Farming; boys sweep chimneys.

           

220754-05   17:18:16 - 17:27:38            1947   SIL       B/W   

[Post-WWII, 1947 - Russian Education and Health Services]
INCLUDING:
17:22:10 Exterior Kiev streets - snow.  People looking at billboards outside theatre. Good shot exterior Ballet theatre with tram and other traffic passing in foreground.  Interior - performance.
17:22:51       

 

221181          15:48:12 - 15:58:56            1947   SD        B/W    USSR  

Soviet Newsreel  (1947)
Narrated by Robert Magidoff
INCLUDING:
15:56:42  New Ballet Star, A  21 year old  Maya Plisetskaya of Bolshoi Ballet rehearsing, then dancing a scene from 3rd Act of Swan Lake on large stage w/ cast.
 
221230-10   18:12:55 - 18:14:06            1947   SD/SIL            B/W    USSR  

Big Four Attend Ballet
Exterior, Bolshoi Ballet.  Int. w/ large lights, chandeliers, Foreign Minister Molotov & wife arrive, greeted by Vishinski in uniform.  Ernst Bevin welcomed.  General Georga Marshall in formal dress, General Mark Clark in uniform.  Frances George Bideault & wife greeted.  All seen seated in official government box.  View of ballet of Romeo & Juliet dancer Galina Ulanova.  Applauding.

250011-05   21:12:12 - 21:13:23            1947   SD        B/W    USSR

Big Four Attend Ballet
21:12:16  Exterior, Bolshoi Ballet.  Int. w/ large lights, chandeliers, Foreign Minister Molotov & wife arrive, greeted by Vishinski in uniform.  Ernst Bevin welcomed.  General George Marshall in formal dress, General Mark Clark in uniform.  Frances George Bideault & wife greeted.  All seen seated in official government box.  View of ballet of Romeo & Juliet dancer Galina Ulanova.  Applauding.
NOTE  has light printer ride.

250049-08   00:31:17 - 00:40:30            1947 (?); 1940s;     SIL       B/W    USSR

[Post-WWII - 1947 ca, Moscow Stock Shots:  Buildings & Street Scenes]
INCLUDING:
00:35:35  Tourists in street w/ Bolshoi Ballet Theater behind them.  MCU; Cu of statue. 
00:35:50 

           

250021-06   16:39:11 - 16:48:34            1947; SIL       B/W    USSR

[Post-WWII, 1947 - Russian Education and Health Services]
INCLUDING:
16:43:06  Exterior Kiev streets, rubble - snow.  People looking at billboards outside theater.  Good shot exterior Ballet theatre, tram & other traffic passing in foreground.
16:43:35  Interior - performance.
16:43:48 

           

220384          15:02:26 - 15:11:00            1948   Sd        B/W    USA     

Wheels A-Rolling: 100 Years of Railroad Progress  [B/W]  Pt. 2 of 2
Presented by Chicago Railroad Fair (1948-1949)
Continued...  Pageant Play w/ music. 
INCLUDING:
15:03:01  Farmers & wives on hay wagon arrive, dance; train of the Burlington Line brings immigrants to farm the mid-west.  Folk dancing; hoe-down, ballet like square dance.
15:05:46       

 

221686-14   07:02:04 - 07:05:15            1949   SIL       B/W   

News In Brief (Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse & Rebuilding; Largest Passenger Plane; Cannes Film Festival, 1949)
INCLUDING:
07:04:29  Two sailors look at large sign listing USA films.  LS of large outdoor garden w/ people at tables & stage in background.  CU Erich von Stroheim drinking glass of wine.  Man at microphone kisses hand of blonde actress (?).  Edward G. Robinson at microphone.  People watching.  Ballet dancers performing; people in garden stand.  Fireworks over palm trees.
NOTE:  Need for large transport discussed beginning in WW2 but only one prototype of Bristol 167 Brabazon Mk1 was produced.  The program was scrapped in 1953.

221233          00:32:50 - 00:35:40            195?   SD        B/W    USA     

[Unid. w/o title - Ballet-like Dance By Couple in Formal Dress]
Performed in circular space w/ pillars & drapes; painted reflective pie-shaped floor.
Dancing to music of full orchestra.  Much twirling & lifts.  May be soundies.
Tacky / kitsch;  Oddities; Art Deco; Performance;

           

221473          06:01:06 - 06:22:30            195?   SD        B/W    USA     

Percussion - The Pulse Of Music
Series:  Music For Young People  Produced by Arts And Audiences Incorporated for National Educational Television And Radio Center w/ The New York Percussion Trio
06:02:18  Pianist David Shapiro introduces percussionists Ronald Gould & Arnold Goldberg to group of young school children on studio set as though in living room.  Explains how music is organization of noise.  Group divided into 3 groups & clap in varying rhythms.
06:03:45  Shapiro describes instruments:  wooden instuments hit, shaken; rattles or maracas, castenets. Chinese temple blocks played.  Xylophone played & compared to keys n piano.  Play Dance of the Comedians by Russian composer Kavalevsky (sp?)
06:08:10  Describes skin instruments:  African Lace Drum from Kenya; ??, Haiti voodoo drums.
06:09:55  Navajo drums of buffalo hide, calf skin & rabbit fur.  Metal body timbalis.  Snare drum w/ & w/o snare attachment played & explained.  Plays roll.  Kettle drums or tympanii tuned & played.
06:15:10  Triangle played.  Cymbals of various sizes from finger cymbals to orchestra.  Gong.  Bells.  Chimes.
06:16:50  Glockenspiel or bells mounted like xylophone.  Doing special effects w/ flutes, whistles, etc.
06:18:10  Introduces Ballet Music of Saint Saens  Samson et Delilah.
06:19:09  Involving the kids w/ playing gourds, maracas, conga drum, cowbells, etc. to play a Mamba.
Note:  Kids listening intercut throughout.

X221425-04 00:32:17 - 00:42:03            1950   SD        B/W    GERMANY       

Home Of The Homeless
INCLUDING:
00:36:18  Women collect rations.  Meeting of camp community; bulletin board advertising social & cultural events.  Young kids in class learning English.  Greek Orthodox women at religious service.  Kids reading in camp library.  Little boys in boxing ring.  EXT game of volleyball in yard, shell-scarred barracks in BG.  Girl & Boy Scouts.  Sign Konservatorium Warner-Kaserne in Munchen; little girls in ballet class; man playing grand piano in bare room watched by young boys.
00:38:27       

 

221617-09   21:09:55 - 21:22:00            1950s;            SD        B/W    ARGENTINA     

[Argentina Film Festival]
INCLUDING:
21:17:13  Night, flags on poles & crowd on hillside at base.  LS Ballet dancers on stage, searchlights on crowd.  Peron standing w/ others.  MS  ballet dancers.  Pan over crowd.
21:17:58

221738-01   11:00:10 - 11:15:29            1951ca;          SD        B/W    AUSTRIA         

Titles.
INCLUDING:
11:02:50  View to castle on hill, dancers perform a ballet atop the Festspiele Theater.
11:03:04
NOTE:  As You Like It actors were from Vienna Burgtheater.
NOTE:  Produced for Marshall Plan.  Users are responsible for clearing any necessary rights.

220944          11:33:45 - 11:53:02            1953   SD        COL

The World Dances  Pt. 4 o 4

INCLUDING:
Fenneman SOF re Polish dances & ballets.  Dancers in arena perform the Mazurka - men w/ peacock feathers in caps [Edmund Szablowskis Gandy Dancers].
11:37:06 

           

250044-07   14:45:01 - 14:57:04            1955   SIL       B/W               

[1955 - Moscow, Adenauer German State Visit, 09-13Sep55]
INCLUDING:
14:47:40  Moscow Ballet dancers taking bows on stage in front of ornate curtain. 
14:47:49  Adenauer, Bulganin followed by others leaving ??. 
14:48:07  Ballet production w/ elaborate set & many dancers.  VIPs applauding, getting up to leave as audience applauds.
14:48:44
NOTE:  Adenauer visited Moscow on State Visit from 09-13Sep55.  Agreement resulted to resume full diplomatic relations & trade negotiations.  Adenauer also reached an agreement on the release of last 10,000 German POWs in Soviet custody.

221551-05   20:40:17 - 20:45:56            1956   SIL       B/W    FRANCE

[Queen Elizabeth & Philip, Paris Opera House, Fireworks.  08Apr56ca]
INCLUDING:
20:40:59  Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip meeting ballet dancers, walking w/ Coty & entring box.  People looking, watching.  Official group up wide stairs, women wearing furs; past official state guards w/ swords in full dress uniforms.  Well dress civilians & military in full dress uniform w/ medals up steps from above.
20:41:51  Queen in motorcade arriving, out of car & crowd waving.  Walking up steps.  Pam-Pam sign in background.
20:42:16  Queen w/ Prince into box w/ President of France acknowledging crowd or anthem.
20:42:46  Formally dressed people into ballet in formal dress. 
20:43:10  Queen smiling, waving from balcony.
20:43:56  People entering, crowds waving, motorcade & police escort from above.  Large crowd in street.  Front of Opera lighted at night.
20:44:34  Fireworks over water w/ fireboats.  French flag w/ UK flag seen in MCU, fireworks behind.  Bridge over Seine & fireworks.
20:45:47  Queen & Prince past navy sailors at attention.
NOTE:  Ballet was Le Chevalier et la Demoiselle.

221568-02   07:04:03 - 07:14:05            1956   SD        B/W    CANADA; Introducing Canada  Pt. 2 of 2
Man repairing or fixing bicycle.  Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh in studio (GOOD).  Little girls ballet class.  Village or small town, pan over rooftops.  Military review parade.  Street scene w/ soldiers on bicycles & traffic warden / police in booth.  Mayor of Caen welcomes two Canadian soldiers & shows them ruins & newly named Place du Canada
07:05:22  Air show - Fighter jet planes fly overhead over airfield.  NATO airmen in MCU.
07:05:43  Canadian Arctic - Aerials of clouds above mountain; isolated settlement in snowy landscape.  Eskimos aka Inuits w/ husky sled dogs.  Aerial NATO military base in Canadian Arctic - sleds & huskies at base.  Troop train & lines of men into barracks.  Aerial defense line w/ domes - interior domes & radar apparatus.  Wind blowing ice & snow.  Woman collecting data on weather.  Men in store.  Sending telegram?  Inuit buying fur at shop.  Buying food supplies.  Native Canadians wearing animal skin coats.  Dog sled race w/ huskies pulling sleds in snow.
07:07:55  Ice hockey game in large sports hall.  Farmer chasing loose pig in snow (GAG).  Industry:  Bulldozer pulling large load on sled & helicopter airlifting supplies for aluminum plant in Kitimat, British Columbia.  Ext. aluminum smelter.  Model of St Lawrence River to guide builders of ocean vessel route, St. Lawrence Seaway.  Oil pipeline wrapped & built.  Interior of Chalk River atomic plant - beam therapy unit to treat patient (medicine).  Students at neurologist Wilder Penfield lecture class.  Surgeons operating - brain surgery.
07:10:25  Art & sculpture class.  Kids painting.  Children in class talking animatedly.  Kids on slide.  Ore carrier ship on calm sea or Great Lakes.  Threshing machines.  Top shot night city street  (Montreal??).    07:11:25  Classical orchestra w/ harp solo.  Salvation Army band & singers.  Teenage girls putting on costume & makeup for theater production.  Ballet w/ couple in cowboy costumes.  Wrestling match.
07:12:09  Boxes & crates loaded into ships hold at night.  Monks singing plain-chant.  Calm sea at night; clouds at night.  4 motor commercial airliner landing at dawn.  Man wipes his face w/ towel  looking out of window.  Ship leaves harbor.
07:13:07  Sheep & shepherd in mountains.  Aerial four-leaf clover-shaped highway interchange.  Railway yard.  LS big city  (Montreal) harbor with large ship underway.  Globe.  End credits.
 
X221170        17:03:17 - 17:13:48            1958   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
17:11:59  Introduction of new truck.  Man shows interior, thru countryside, lorry up mountain road.
17:12:45  Hungarian Ice Ballet  Moscow sports palace, LS ice ring, Budapests ice theater group, perform folk dance on ice, skating two-man horse & clown dance on ice (GAG), horse falls down & shakes legs in the air, stands up & poses for applauding public, skates up to couple sitting on heart shaped bench hiding behind umbrella, horse pushes off umbrella, sits between them.  Finale all artists skate around the ring, throw flowers in to public.  The End.

           

221436-04   23:02:32 - 23:03:12            1958   SD        B/W   

Austria            News In Brief - Austria (Ballet School)
Woman playing concert grand piano, looking past at nine very young girls in tights practicing ballet dancing w/ woman instructing; doing splits, standing along wall holding up foot.  Practicing on toes & turns.  Mostly pudgy, fat children.
 
220932          23:15:20 - 23:16:12            1959   SD        B/W               

News In Brief: New York
Queues around block outside NY Metropolitan Opera House for standee tickets on sold-out first night of Bolshoi Ballets Romeo and Juliet.  Arrivals of UN Sec. Gen. Hammarskjold, Russian Ambassador Menjukov and Elsa Maxwell.  Curtain up on stage after performance, dancers bow.

 

X221421        16:00:10 - 16:10:57            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of The Day
INCLUDING:
16:08:54  American Ice Ballet  Moscow performance of syncronized dancing on ice skates.  CU audience, Elisa Caseys solo performance w/ baton twirling; audience applauds, clown in sailor uniform, runs thru audience onto the ice.  5 time world champion & 2 time Olympic champion Dick Button shows complicated jumps & turns, applause.   People come close to the ice ring, applaud the artist, kids give flowers, CU artists, hand-in-hand on the ice, skate past, high angle shots of performers.  The End.



X221421        16:21:32 - 16:23:21            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of The Day
Bolshoi Theater Ballet in USA  New York City intersection, Bolshoi Ballet posters at Metropolitan Opera, long ticket queue; people read newspapers, sit  & lay on pavement for overnight wait.  Women w/ sewing kits, men review music notes. 
16:22:09  Night, performance evening, people outside theater, enter smiling at camera,  VIPs arrive in cars, enter the theater, CU Soviet ambassador Menshikov smiles at camera.
16:22:34  Fragment of dancing of ballet Romeo & Juliet w/ Galina Ulanova as Juliet, applause, all artists on the stage.  Flowers.  

X221329-05 11:42:30 - 11:52:59            1959  SD      B/W               

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
11:51:54  Winter Fancy.  Moscows Sports Palace, 1st performance of Soviet ice ballet ensemble.  Group of girls in long dresses dance on skates in line on ice.  Other couples perform dance w/ complicated lifts. Women skaters perform Russian folk dance. (suddenly ends)

221515-06   00:52:27 -  01:01:34           1960   SD        B/W    USSR  

Story of Soviet Schools  Pt. 2 of 3
INCLUDING:
00:54:58  Children in the physical activity class, jump on the trampoline; perform on high bar, horse, young girls in ballet & gymnastics class.
00:55:38

X221194-04 08:32:14 -  08:42:28           1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
08:40:46  Uzbekistans artist concert  Kremlin  Solo performance by Uzbek ballet dancer Kalivanova, stage from various angles, audience applaud.  Uzbek folk dance ensembles Bahor performance, various angles. Final song by opera singer w/ orchestra & chorus, LS stage.  The End
NOTE:  One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

X221194-06 08:53:27 - 09:03:55            1962   SD        B/W    USSR  

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
09:02:18  Leningrads Ballet in Moscow  Ext. Kremlin palace, int. audience in big hall & performance by Leningrads Kirov ballet, fragment of Soloviev-Sedoi ballet Taras Bulba, Zoporozhtse dance, shots of performance from various angles, applause, LS stage.   The End.
NOTE:  One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

X221165        07:51:37 - 08:02:20            1962 SD        B/W               

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
08:01:20  US New York City Ballet in Moscow.  Dancers dancing Swan Lake.  Fragments from Stravinskys ballet Agon (?), Symphony of Far East, audience applauding.

           

221514-06   08:44:00 - 08:49:30            1965   SD        B/W    USSR  

INCLUDING:
08:44:30  Performers putting on costumes & make-up; musicians tuning; dancers warming up.  Soviet Circus on Ice; ballet dancer Natalia Bessmertnova.  Overhead skaters performing, raised on trapeze, dropping skirts & swinging onto trapeze & balancing.
08:46:51  Women performers coached and rehearsing.  Acrobatics on ice rehearsing on skates w/ jumps & flips.  Gags.
 
221514-07   08:49:30 - 08:58:06            1965   SD        B/W    USSR  
Spotlight operator, three bears skating alone; bear in tutu skating as a couple w/ trainer.
08:50:01  Comedians, clowns.  Aerialists spinning by teeth.  Costumed dance troupe.
08:50:47  Ballet Giselle w/ Natalia Bessmertnova  Audience applauding in huge Bolshoi (?) theater.  Stills  Rehearsing w/ Olga Yurdon (sp?).  CUs loading film camera; w/ ??  Dancing Giselle on stage.  Training.
08:54:52  Act 1 when Giselle goes mad, in performance.
08:56:37  Dancing w/ partner. 
08:57:23  LIghts, projection booth; acrobat doing elaborate flip; pianist w/ orchestra; dancers; actors in film, on stage; violinist.  The End.
NOTE:  Very good ballet dance.

X221190        03:59:52 - 04:10:07            1966   SD        B/W    USSR  
INCLUDING:
04:08:50  Installing prefabricated housing.  Subway exit, Boshoi ballet, park & fountain; pedestrians & traffic.  Moscow University.  The End.
 
X221412        22:19:53 - 22:30:02            1966   SD        COL      USSR; UKRAINE         

Spring in Kiev
INCLUDING:
22:22:40  Shot of Opera & Ballet Theater in name of Shevchenko, traffic past theater, high angle big square in front of the building.
22:23:08 

 

X221192        02:00:00 - 02:08:10            1967   SD        COL      LITHUANIA; USSR      

A School of Beauty Appreciation  Pt 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
02:03:56  Young girl sewing in room furnished in traditional Lithuanian style; other boys & girls at tables reading wearing different uniform to other kids.  Boys wearing suits study at long table; mosaic portrait of Lenin on wall.  Large school theatre, teacher watching among empty seats as students practice dance in traditional costume on stage.  Library study tables w/ reading lamps.  Girl dances twirling ribbons in gymnasium; ballet lesson.  Pan down wall of glass bricks by stairwell.  Older boys & girls dancing traditional waltz in couples to Strauss music. 
02:06:53 

 

X221649        05:20:53 - 05:31:28            1967   SD        COL      USSR  

The USSR National Games
INCLUDING:
05:27:00  Armed Forces sportsmen march across field & do routines including riding motorcrycles on platforms held by others.  Perform w/ reflectors & flags in ballet mass routine. (VERY GOOD)
05:28:09  Parachute drop into stadium.  Balloon (?) rockets launched,  More mass performances on field.  Dynamo Sports Club doing mass patterned domino-like performances & marching.  Lights playing on them.  Women & hula-hoop performance & other synchronized maneuvers.  Motorcycles.  Finale w/ Red Star outline & cards.  Fireworks.

X221129-04 05:45:54 - 06:02:13            1968 1935   SD        B/W   

Yesterdays Champions Today
INCLUDING:
05:51:13  Zoya interview, speaks of job as surgeon to return patients to normal lives.  In hospital w/ patients: ballet, soccer player & other athletes.  Physiotheraphy room, people exercise.  Surgeon consults patients in swimming pool, talks w/ young athletes in hospital hallway.  Walks thru hospital corridor w/ another doctor.
05:52:57

NOTE:  One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

221609          05:28:04 - 05:36:07            1969   SIL       COL      ROMANIA        

President Nixons World Trip  Reel 6, Pt 1 of 3
INCLUDING:

05:33:15  Girls perform ballet display outside school. 
05:33:58 

 

X221172        20:11:06 - 20:21:47            1971   SD        B/W    USSR  

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
20:20:35  Art.  Days of Paris Communes 100th anniversary, Moscow, stage of Bolshoi theater, scenes from Assafievs ballet The Flames of Paris, dancers on stage & dance toward public w/ guns in hand, applause.

221257          01:03:07 - 01:10:32            1972   SD        COL     

A Time For Peace  R1 Pt 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
01:09:04  Moscow State University, exterior & interior, students.  Visit to Bolshoi theatre school, young students dancing ballet.  Young dancer presents doll to Pat Nixon.
01:09:57  Chandelier.  President & Mrs Nixon w/ Russian hosts attend Bolshoi ballet.  Dancers perform Swan Lake.
 
X221159        21:00:16 - 21:10:25            1972  SD      B/W    USSR  

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
21:08:04  Festival Russian Winter, shot of Kremlin at dark.   Closing concert, soviet ballet dancers,  Vladimir Vasiliev & Ekaterina Maximova perform fragments from L. Minkus Don Quixote, audience applauds.
21:09:27
  

X221423        20:00:00 - 20:10:19            1978   SD        B/W               

Russian News of the Day
INCLUDING:
20:08:38   USSR ballet professional Maris Belzharput puts on ballet Isadoro  w/ Maya Plisetskaya dancing solo.  Shots of artists talking. Maya performing to La Marseillaise.  Public applaud.  Lots of flowers on stage.
 
220354          14:34:35 - 14:40:24            1980s SD        COL      USA     

[MWR program for recreation]
INCLUDING:
14:37:09  Childrens sports:  Judo or karate class / martial arts; ballet; small children dancing in day-care hall.  Childrens Center leader  talks about organisation.
14:37:53

220347          11:28:16 - 11:33:01            1980s SD        COL      USA     

[Exercise & Its Benefits]
Air Force Now trailer.
Girl  in flowing dress dancing ballet style w/ stage lighting.  Man talks re benefits of exercise against ageing.
Aerobics center.  Middle-aged women do floor exercises.   Montage of recreational tennis, volleyball, football (soccer).  Woman with pink headband jogs in slow motion.
11:31:41  Man on treadmill with heart sensors & heartbeat showing on computer screen.  Swimming. Walking.  Couple cycling.  Girl in flowing dress ballet dancing as at beginning.

ALN 400-268            17:00:51 - 17:07:14            1983   SD        COL      UZBEKISTAN; USSR;  

Tashkent Radio Quiz  R2 of 2   --  NOTE:  COPYRIGHT MUST BE CLEARED.
INCLUDING:
17:03:05  Ballet dancers on stage performing w/ visiting German dancer.  Audience watching, applauding.
17:04:36  CU ballet dancer face, talking w/ women & interviewed.  Algeria worker interview translted.  Young visitors at airport tell of positive experiences.
17:06:18

200566          00:07:52 - 00:12:58            1987   SD        COL                 

USIA Television TV Satellite File No. 5000 (sic):  USA/USSR Relations, Pt. 3 of 4
INCLUDING:
00:09:32  Statement on humanizing element of exchanges.  Horowitz playing piano in Moscow w/ audience applauding.  Bolshoi ballet dancing in USA.  Russian children visiting Lincoln Memorial.  Soviet kids on US Outward Bound type obstacle course.
00:10:36

 

X270004        07:00:00 - 07:11:44            2003 Sept       SD        COL     

ISRAEL            Masada Ceremony
Part of Ceremony to mark Masada as World Heritage Site
INCLUDING:
07:03:55 ballet on stage.
07:05:07

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