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220272          03:28:13 - 03:28:44            1961   Sd        B/W   

News In Brief (Brezhnev in Ghana)
Title card:  Ghana.  Airport as Brezhnev
arrives with people in bleachers greeting him on official visit.  African women & honor guard on tarmac.  He walks and waves. 

           

220522          18:40:24 - 18:42:22            1964   Sd        b/w    

Khruschev Resigns
Montage profile shots. K waving from train. K at meeting. K with Mao Tse Tung. K with Nasser. K at United Nations making speech and gesticulating - banging desk with fists. Khruschev waving with hat at parade in Red Square. Interiors meeting of Central Committee - Khruschev seated and applauded by audience and Brezhnev who has now taken over. Brezhnev making speech at microphone - some natsof.
18:42:02 Newspaper headlines and picture Khruschev. K's 70th birthday party 

 

221257          01:04:48 - 01:10:32            1972   SD        COL     

Time For Peace - Part Three - May 1972
Crowds waving red flags. RV President Nixon and others on walkabout.  Good shot Russian and US flags flying together. 
01:05:08 Nixon, Podgorny, Kosygin and Gromyko at welcoming military march past.
01:05:24 Kremlin from across the river. St Basils church.  Interior shots of Kremlin showing art and architecture. Cameramen
01:05:57 First summit meeting taking place in Katherine Hall, Nixon and Brezhnev shake hands, pose for cameras. Teleprinter, communications centre, press room, journalists tying nd on telephones. 
01:06:34 Good shots undercover food market, women shopping.
01:06:58 President Nixon and Russians sign environmental agreement, an agreement on health, agreement for co-operation in Space, agreement in science and technology, agreement on safety at sea. 
01:08:11 Reception, champagne drinking
01:08:19 St Basils. Mrs Nixon meeting with people of Moscow. Mrs Nixon at Moscow circus - performing bear, audience applaud, watching high wire act, performing horses
01:09:04 Moscow state university, exterior and interior, students. Visit to Bolshoi theatre school, young students perform ballet.  Young dancer presents doll to Pat Nixon.
01:09:57 Chandelier, President and Mrs Nixon with Russian hosts attend Bolshoi ballet. Dancers perform Swan Lake slight scratches on performance
           

221257          01:10:44 - 01:14::03          1972   SD        COL

Time For Peace - Part Four-
26th May 1972 St Vladimir Hall, Nixon and Brezhnev walking down stairs, take seats at table and sign Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1) signed.  Nixon and Brezhnev watched by many politicians. Champagne toasts
01:11:43 Leningrad, eternal flame, military ceremony and wreath laying by President Nixon. Nixon signs guest book in memory of Tanya and all those who died during siege of Leningrad. 
01:12:33 President Nixon back in Moscow sits in font of television cameras to address the Soviet people direct.  Makes speech re prospects for peace and progress made.  ...with great power goes great responsibility clipped
01:13:28 Top shot Brezhnev
and Nixon taking seat at table, signing of agreement affirming pledge to avoid nuclear confrontation, signed agreements exchanged and handshakes. 

220431          00:55:44 - 00:05:29            1974   SD        B/W   

Spinner Yelena Amosova
Pravda headlines re Brezhnev
congratulating laborious spinner of Vermonov textile plant Yelena Amosova for completing Five-year plan ahead of schedule.
Spinner walks through birch trees and in street;  spinning in factory, good CUs. 
00:59:38 Factory production meeting including workers.  Exterior factory at night - windows.  Spinner at home talks about how she beat five-year plan schedule.  Shots working at factory.  Spinner gives talk to schoolchildren.  Stills CUs spinner.

220533          00:04:44 - 00:18:00            1984   Sd        col      

High Frontier - A Defense That Defends - Film about Strategic Defence Initiative (Star Wars) Two Reels
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00:15:55 Montage -  Russian missiles - control room - cosmonauts training - rocket launch - Brezhnev with military officer / cosmonaut.
00:16;25 Interiors Reagan with Gorbachev  and on walkabout.
00:16:32 Missile launch and animation of SDI. Montage missile launches. Animation SDI. Atomic explosion.      

 

 

 

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LN 400-246  17:46:36 - 17:56:55            1920s - 1971           SD        B/W   

From Congress to Congress  [Reel 1 of 5]
[English narration]
B/W shots of Moscow, Mar66 - 23rd Party Congress at Kremlin Palace of Congresses - INT delegates stand & applaud.  Leonid Brezhnev
addresses Congress re Five Year Plan for 1966-1970.  Heavy industry montage - VO re accomplishments of 8th Five Year Plan.  Electricity pylons & power stations across USSR - hydroelectric dams. 
17:50:43  Lenins GOELRO Plan for recovery of USSR & electrification - 1920s shots of first Soviet power station; output compared to that of station built during 8th Five Year Plan.  Interiors of thermal & atomic power stations.  Construction of vars power stations & hydroelectric dams in remote regions inc. Chukotka.  Nurek plant on Vakhsh River in Tajikistan - Brezhnev tours construction site, Autumn 1970 - talks to crowd of workers.  Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station on Yenisei River - opening of tenth unit on centenary of Lenins birth, 1970 - project leader Andrei Botchkin - flashback shots of river being blocked & construction workers high above dam - turbines installed.
17:55:09  Montage showing new communities lit up by hydropower projects - little girl playing piano - neon lights.  Top shot looking down onto dam.  Botchkin surveys construction of Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, second scheme on Yenisei.  Electricity pylons.

200108          00:07:55 - 00:11:47            1950s - 1960s          COL&B/W       

00:07:55  Brezhnev seated at head of table - leading members of the Party
00:08:55  Various Brezhnev
00:09:35  Colour - Brezhnev speaking at congress - B on walkabout cheered by crowds - B in Red Square for May Day  - various B in different situations

221171          19:09:04 - 19:18:18            1958   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day Special Issue  1958 May
'Opened exhibition of All Union Agriculture'.  11May58, CU Soviet agriculture exhibition's statue on big entrance gates.  Agriculture trade fair grounds w/ pavilions & buildings, big fountain, crowds of people.  VIPs on the walkway, people applaud, Khruschev w/ other VIPs inside pavilion, look at various machinery & equipment; come out of pavilion on to balcony, huge crowds applaud, VIPs w/ Khruschev, Mikoyan, Brezhnev
, Suslov(?), take off hats, applaud, high angle big crowds of people, CU various people.
19:12:34  Soviet minister of Agriculture Mackevich on podium next to Khrushchev. Various speakers at the microphone, applause.  Khruschev's speech (SOF), gives his greetings to all collective farm people & congratulates the great success in agriculture & all other industries, public applaud, Khruschev's speech from various angles, shots of audience, high angle square, audience.
19:15:59  VIPs incl. Brezhnev
, Mikoyan on podium, listen to Khrushchev, CU Khrushchev finishes his speech by praising - Homeland, All Soviet Nation, Agriculture Exhibition & Communism, public applaud.
19:16:47  Mackevich announces that All Union Agriculture Exhibition is now open, VIPs, high angle exhibition grounds, various buildings, beautiful fountains, architecture, big squares, people crowds.  The End.
 
221170          17:14:04 - 17:23:45            1958   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1958 #38 September
Towards 21st Congress of CPSU  Stalingrad, huge crowds in city square, VIPs w/ Khrushchev, Brezhnev & others, Khrushchev waves hat, high angle applauding crowds, Stalingrad Party Secretary Zhigalin at the microphone.  Khruschev at mic (MOS) congratulates Staliningrad w/ getting Lenin Prize, crowds applaud.
17:15:16 (out of frame) Large metallurgy factory hall, various machinery, factory worker speaks on camera(SOF) says factory is determined to beat years target (in frame) & produce 275 machines on top of target.
17:16:13  Chinese Nations Put Together Their Power  Huge crowd filled square, Anti- American protest  against US troops in Taiwan region.  VIPs w/ China Premier Chou En Lai (Zhou Enlai) on podium, high angle huge crowds, Peking National Committee Chairman at microphone, shots of cheering people, people w/ guns in their hands cheering on the street.
17:17:16  Leningrad  Gorky Printing House hall, printing of 5th edition of Lenins writings.  Printing machines, man checks sheets, CU books out of machine, women check, CU book cover & first page w/ Lenins portrait.
17:18:03  Kiev  People enter large exhibition hall for Lenins Comsomol 40th anniversary, people look at posters that told story of Comsomol prizes; CU various paintings, shot of people in the exhibition hall.
17:19:25  Ternopil, one of the most beautiful Ukrainian cities high angle big square, big buildings.  Stills of WWII ruins of city.  Rebuilt Ternopil:  square w/ fountain, ext, Taras Shevchenko theater & street scene.
17:20:12  Duck farm, lake full of ducks, huge flock of ducks walking to farm, CU 4 young duck farm workers, young ducklings run across the yard for feed, CU ducklings, woman in the yard surrounded by ducklings.
17:21:02  Japanese sea coast, cliffs in the water, CU cliffs, lighthouse in the mist, CU lighthouse workers, man turns on the signal light, LS lighthouse lamp in the mist & at night.
17:22:08  Honored professor - Paul Robson'  Moscow's conservatory, Robson welcomed on stage w/ applause, LS stage, CU smiling Robson, audience applaud.  Conservatory director Sveshnikov presents Robson w/ Professors diploma, shake hands, kiss, CU diploma, people give flowers.
17:22:57  Robson sings hymn (SOF English), LS stage applause.  The End
           

LN 400-247  19:41:07 - 19:47:55            1958   SD        B/W   

Russian News of The Day  1958 #46  November   Pt. 1 of 2
'Unbreakable Unity'  Moscow's sports palace hall, USSR - People's Republic of Poland friendship meeting, high angle applauding audience, LS VIPs applaud on podium w/ Khruschev, Voroshilov, Brezhnev & others, LS stage.
19:41:52  LS podium, at the microphone Moscow City Party's 1st secretary Ustinov, Khrushchev sits next to the speaker; applause, CU Polish VIPs Wladislaw Gamulka, Alexander Zavatsky(?) & others.
19:42:10  Various speakers, Soviet worker's representatives on podium inc. writer Vadim Kazhevnikov, LS stage, VIPs & audience give standing ovation to Khrushchev walking to podium.  CU Khrushchev applauds, Khrushchev from various angles, pan over applauding audience.
19:43:00  CU Polish government leader Wladislaw Gomulka on podium,  audience shots.  CU Gamulka speaks (MOS) of friendship forever between Poland & Soviet Union; unbreakable unity of all socialistic countries, audience give standing applause w/ tv camera visible.  LS Khruschev & Gomulka shake hands.
19:43:33 'In Honor of 21th congress of CPSU'  CU Pravda newspaper article w/ Khrushchev's informative announcement about decisions of 21st Congress.  Atomic icebreaker 'Lenin' under construction.  LS ship, big  cranes, large poster stating that builders are constructing the ship as a present for 21st Party Congress.  CU shots of the ship, steam out of stack, workers in engine room, CU various machinery, workers in big motor room, ext ship surrounded w/ big construction cranes.
19:44:48  CU powerful water stream onto sugar beet roots being unloaded from trucks; piles outdoors being covered w/ earth (?) by mashine.  Shot of sign - Uslabinsky Sugar Factory.  Ext. sugar factory, int w/ big machinery.  CU workers in white coats supervise automatic machinery, CU older worker gives advice to young workers, shots of conveyors.
19:45:55  LS  Kremlin,  Voroshilov meets Ambassador of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Lazar Mojsov, delegates walk into meeting hall.  Mojsov reads his speech (MOS) & presents Voroshilov w/  his papers.  CU Voroshilov reads his speech & presents papers, shake hands.
19:46:39  Moscow, POV from metro coming out of subway; LS train over bridge, shot from train passing big buildings.  CU train driver, train thru station.  Ext. people enter train station, walk along platform.  Train arrives at platform.  (GOOD)
19:47:25  LS construction of new 2 level bridge.  CU shot from car on wide upper level of new bridge, LS lower level for trains & metro; high angle bridge, traffic on the city road.   Continued...

LN 400-228  04:30:37 - 04:41:08            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1959 #16 April
'Around Lenin's places'  Portrait of Lenin, Lenin's 89th birthday, ext.  & int. Lenin Museum Gorki, people look at historical documents; park bench where Lenin loved to sit, alley where he took walks.  Moscow, Ext. Kremlin, int  people walk thru Lenin's office.  Archival footage of Lenin in Kremlin's Yard.
04:32:12  Ext. Kremlin, 1st session of leading USSR Soviet, rear shot of tall narrow meeting hall, government leaders on stage w/ Brezhnev
, LS stage, shots of audience, speakers on podium, applause.  Party member Aristov nominates Ignatov for Chairman of Ministers Cabinet.  VIPs applaud w/ Brezhnev & Ignatov.Polanskoy on the podium, audience votes, applause.
04:33:33  Cotton textile factory w/ cotton bobbins on looms(?), women workers; workers are trying out new plan where leading workers help out bottom brigades; leading team's member Valentina tells (SOF) how she decided to leave her team & come to help bottom team, knowing that she will get paid less.  Valentina works w/ team mate, shots of young women working.
04:34:36  'Africa fights for freedom', Accra, East Africa nationalist demonstrations.  People march w/ placards, speaker at microphone surrounded by huge crowd, various placards w/ - 'Freedom for East Africa', various shots of demonstration thru city.
04:35:32  Kremlin, Deputy Chairman Poleckis(?) w/ Ethiopia ambassador, speeches, exchange documents.
04:36:18  Uzbekistan, spring, CU apple orchard in bloom w/ flowers.  Cotton planting, men in big field, look at  soil, CU tractor driver, man measures planting distance in soil, high angle tractor thru field, CU planter.
04:37:02  Workers in back of lorrys driving up mountain road. Trucks on snowy road.   Workers into tramway & up mountain.  Shots thru tram window to mountains.  CU Dramatic shots of men working on tram lines high above valley.  Cable room & men in control panel room talking by telephone to the tram.  LS tram sliding through the air mountains behind.
04:37:57  Leningrad harbor w/ ice & arriving ships.  Ship from Ceylon unloading bulk rubber cargo; workers move rubber blocks, woman on fork lift.
04:38:35  People on street gather around, take pictures, CU police man blows whistle, smiles.  Dog & tiny bear cub out of car; walked down street on leashes.  Couple at dinner table, dog on floor nurses adopted baby bear, CU bear feeding from dog, woman feeds eager bear from baby bottle, CU bear w/ bottle.
04:39:35  Moscow's Bolshoi theater hall, shot of audience, folk dancers on the stage, dancers from various angles, applause.  Rumanian dance 'Beryl' performed by 2 male artists, shots of funny (clown like) dancing.
           

LN 400-242  09:31:19 - 09:41:43            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1959 #01  January
'Lenin's Prize for RFSU'  LS ext. Kremlin, high angle meeting hall, meeting of Supreme Soviet of Russian Federation, VIPs w/ Voroshilov, Khruschev, Suslov, Brezhnev & others on podium, audience & standing ovation.  Voroshilov present's Lenin's prize to Russian Federations representatives, applause, Lenin's medal put on the Republic's flag.  Russian Federation's chairman Polansky at microphone, applause.
09:32:51 'New Year's Eve'  Stalingrad, big dam construction site, huge cranes, workers prepare new turbine & finish one year early & dedicated.  Man under turning turbine taking readings,  engineer at control panel, CU smiling factory workers shake hands, LS turbine, ext dam & spillways (VERY GOOD).
09:33:52  Steel mill, factory hall w/ big furnaces, workers, man into control room, says (SOF) his team is competing for title:  Communist Labor team; all are always ready to learn & be a model industry.
09:34:45  Moscow's airport  w/ USSR & Afghan flags.  Royal Highness, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Naim greeted by Kosygin, Gromyko & VIPs. CU Naim, car leaves airport.
09:35:26  Shot out plane, Siberia.  Couple on sled pulled by reindeer arrive at collective reindeer farm census.  Reindeer herd in snowy field, people out of tent & enter tent w/ census taker.  Oil derrick, woman taking information from workers; man at control panel forwards coded messages w/ counting results.
09:36:14  Men work on Chaika auto assembly line; new Chaika model w/ CUs of details, out of factory.
09:36:50  Art Festival  Moscow art gallery, crowd viewing exhibition from Socialist countries.  USSR Culture Minister Mihaylov as sculptor Konyonkov(?) cuts ribbon. Views of hall & paintings. (VERY GOOD)  Hall of Albanian artists, CU painting.  Bulgarian painting 'Teacher in the Village', various shots of people, CU various nationality artist paintings, CU Chinese Artists Collective work:  large sculpture, CU people look at pictures, shots of various paintings & sculpture.
09:39:08  Painting of Lenin's speech in the 3rd Comsomol's meeting, people in the exhibition hall.
09:39:29 'Hello Year 1959'  New Year's Eve, good traffic & street scenes on winter night.  CU Red Square at night, snowing, CU clock tower showing 11:55 pm.  Ext modern apartment house, int., family at table, stands w/ glasses in hands Christmas tree behind, toast as clock rings midnight & girl rips off calendar page, CU calendar on 1st of January.  CU orchestra plays in large hall & people dancing waltz.
09:40:38  Santa on horse drawn carriage arrives at children's New Years celebration in Sports Palace w/ big Christmas tree in middle of arena.   CU trapeze acrobats performance, little girl smiling.
09:40:54  Live bear arrives on motorbike, little girl smiles, LS bear on the bike, acrobatic clown on trapeze, kids laugh, various shots of clown flying up & down, little boy watches w/ open mouth, laughing children.  LS Roller skate performer.  The End. 

 

LN 400-247  20:23:45 - 20:33:52            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of The Day  1959  #17  April
Lenins 89th birthday  CU Lenins portrait.  Celebration at the ornate Bolshoi Theater hall, large Lenin sculpture on stage, audience give standing applause to Soviet VIPs coming on stage incl. Mikoyan, Suslov & others.  Lenin's Guard veterans also on stage.  At microphone Comrade Kirichenko introduces Brezhnev
who speaks.  Various shots of audience.  Fragment of Brezhnev's speech (SOF) tells how all the communist party's & working people's achievements lead back to the great Lenin.  Applause, says to follow Marxism's & Leninisms lead to the great victory of Communism, public & VIPs applaud.
20:25:58  'Lenin Prize Winners'  Machine tool (?) factory, big machinery, 3 engineers are Lenin' Prize winners for their invention of new machine.  CU engineers tell (SOF) about the new machines; the new machinery in factory hall;  CU automatic machinery supervised by only 2 workers.
20:27:17  Moscow monument of the famous Russian writer & poet Vladimir Mayakovski.  CU statue, people take pictures, put flowers.  CU sculptor Alexander Kipalnikov(?) in his workshop w/ Lenin statue behind him, speaks (SoF), he's glad that people like his statue of Mayakovski on which he worked for many years & for which he was awarded w/ a Lenin prize.  CU sculptor works on a statue, stands next to unfinished sculpture.
20:28:22  LS Kremlin.  Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR Poleckis meets Ambassador of Iran M. Ansari.  Ansari & Poleckis read their speeches & exchange papers.
20:28:59  Moscow airport, snowy evening, Soviet editors & journalists greet editor delegation from GDR. East German delegates shake hands w/ greeters.  CU main editor of German newspaper 'Forverts'.
20:29:33  Swish pan to airport & people boarding airplane, reporters interview passengers, little kid answers reporter's question.  Ext new passenger plane IL-18 from various angles, interior w/ pilots in cockpit, shot from plane to clouds, passengers, air hostess offers newspapers, little baby sits on passenger's seat, another sleeps in mother's arms; shot from plane over city near Black sea, plane lands, people exit the plane.
20:30:40  Swish pan to Uzbekistan spring, blossoming trees, people walk thru blossoming apple orchard to new art museum.  CU people look at the paintings.
20:31:27  CU Fishing Collective's leader & others pull out fishing nets full w/ fish.  CU sturgeons.  Men on  boat lay the fishnets, fishermen pull out huge fish, all smile, pose w/ enormous fish in their arms.
20:32:16  '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.  Performance evening, people outside theater, enter smiling at camera,  VIPs arrive in cars, enter the theater, CU Soviet ambassador Menshikov smiles at camera.
20:33:17  Fragment of ballet Romeo & Juliet w/ Galina Ulanova as Juliet, applause, all artists on the stage.

 

LN 400-248  21:13:53 - 21:24:26            1959   SD        B/W   

Russian News of The Day  1959  #11  March
' Khrushchev's visit to GDR'   Leipzig, East Germany.  International Spring Trade Fair Khrushchev & delegates walk thru USSR exhibition hall; model of Soviet Sputnik, car models, Khrushchev w/ GDR leaders Walter Ulbrich & Otto Grotewohl look at cars & smile.  Khrushchev wearing flower chain at Indian exhibit. Shots of delegates w/ Khrushchev thru trade fair.  CU Khrushchev answers reporters questions.  Night crowds in city square.  Khrushchev & others walk thru cheering crowds, shake hands w/ public, woman presents K. w/ flowers & kisses him.  VIPs w/ K., Ulbrich & Grotewohl on podium, applause, Khrushchev at  microphone.  LS podium w/ huge picture of Khrushchev.   Applause, fireworks.
21:16:21  Plane on runway, VIPs greets K. returning from GDR.  Photographers take pictures, Khrushchev shakes hands w/ Suslov, Brezhnev, Mikoyan & other VIPs, car w/ VIPs drives away from airport.
21:16:45  '3rd meeting of UPWP'  3rd meeting of United Polish Worker's Party, congress hall, VIPs on podium incl., Soviet delegation led by Ignatov, Chinese delegates w/ Ju De(?) & others, standing applause, high angle stage.  On podium 1st secretary of the United Polish Workers Party, Wladyslav Gamulka.
21:17:46  'After Great Plan'  Big explosions, huge crane in the open pit coal strip mine, men work inside the crane, big scoop shovel.  CU coal dug up by tractor,  into the train cars.
21:18:52  Kamchatka  Big waves & fishing boat, island thru fog.  Ship on water from various angles, CU sailors in ship's control room; men pull out huge fishing net, various shots of fishermen, CU huge amount of fish pour out.  Ice on deck.   View of island mountain.
21:19:39  Kremlin, USSR Deputy Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet Ivan Kodice meets Ambassador of Israel Aria Arel(?), delegates read their speeches & exchange papers, shake hands.
21:20:21  South Tadzhikistan  Spring, blossoming trees in the field surrounded by dry mountains, tractors  on  road  to fields; pour in seeds in the planters; tractors on the field planting cotton.  CU drivers.
21:21:08  Moscow   Big canteen hall, food expert committee taste dishes on canteen's menu.  People in the cafeteria pick food from display counter, CU various dishes.  Women pick food from counter covered w/ huge variety of dishes.  Man pours tea from big tea urns; various shots of people eating in canteen.                
21:22:12  Celebration of Kazakhstan's National artist Aman Kulmamedov(?) 30 yrs. in the theater.  Shots of Amad in various theatre plays.  On stage, applause, Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister of Culture Kavusov reads  congratulation speech (MOS), applause; various people give presents, kiss, applause.  CU artist Amad.
21:23:15  'World Cup in Hockey'  USSR & USA hockey teams on ice rink; scenes from final game, end of the game, won by USSR w/ score 5 - 1, teammates shake hands.   

LN 400-227  02:00:52 - 02:10:01            1960   SD        B/W   

[Russian News of the Day  1960 #45]
Titles & first four scenes of issue missing.
Kremlin, Brezhnev
presents Voroshilov w/ Order of Lenin and Order Sickle & Hammer, for his excellent service to Communist party and soviet government, kiss on lips, other delegates seated at long table, Brezhnev pins both orders on to Voroshilov jacket, shake hands, smile.
02:01:20  'Soviet - Cuban debate'.  Kremlin, Mikoyan meet Cubas delegation w/ Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, shake hands, discuss future collaboration in trade and economic industries.  Good CUs.
02:01:49  'Labor report to Homeland'.  Biggest in the world Bratsk Dam under construction, workers, water streams thru scaffolding, man in high crane lifts concrete as woman gestures.
02:02:52  Tajikistan, apple harvest, women sort big piles of apples & pack them in boxes.  Grape harvest, CU women cut grapes, men carry big baskets of grapes, piles of grape boxes, workers check & pack grapes.
02:03:39  Ukraine, testing of huge new open pit mining machine, man in control panel, switches on mining machinery w/ buckets & conveyor belts, huge machine from various angles & tailings pile.
02:04:26  Arctic, Atom Icebreaker ship 'Lenin' on water, breaks thru ice, CU ships captain on bridge looks w/ binoculars, ship from various angles, people in control room, smaller ships lined up behind icebreaker.
02:05:20  Launching new ship 'Soviet Russia', people crowds on the shore, ship slides into water w/ flags flying from bow.
02:05:57  Ancient city of Vladimira, military band, crowds in square of freedom, in honor of city's 850th anniversary unveiling of new monument, CU statues on monument.
02:06:29  CU dolls on the conveyor belt, kids celebrate kindergarten anniversary, little girls sing & dance(SOF), kids applaud w/ big smiles on faces.  Children dance w/ little flags in their hands & sing (SOF) -  'Hurray to October'.  Very nice for youthful patriotism, pride.
02:07:29  Football (soccer) Final between Dynamo & Torpedo teams, LS huge stadium, CU cheering supporters, shot of winning goal from Torpedos Ivanov, applause, winners collect their prize trophy.
02:08:28  'Youth celebration ball'.  University of Friendship hall, international youth dance, celebrate,  international students at microphone introduce themselves in Russian (SOF) from Ghana, Venezuela, Russian factory; applause, guests watch Russian folk dance ensemble's performance, all smile, applaud.
           

LN 400-227  02:21:24 - 02:31:37            1960   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1960 #46 November
Kremlin, Khruschev & Gromyko meet Chinese People's Republic's Chairman Liu Shao-Chi (Shaoqi), Deng Xiaoping & others, shake hands, CU smiling Khrushchev, delegates at meeting table, all smile.
02:22:28  'Reports of labor victories'.  Huge metallurgy furnace construction, flaming liquid steel, smoke.
02:23:14  Minsk, people crowds in big square to mark completion of Ukraine - Bulgaria gas pipeline, various shots of pipeline laying process, pipe pulled thru water, covered w/ protective coating, shot of long pipeline through field, people look at gas fire flaming in the air.
02:23:59  Kremlin, Brezhnev meet British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts, delegates read out speeches & exchange documents, shake hands.
02:24:36  International youth evening, people dance surrounded by others applauding, CU various nationality people, talk, some w/ help of translators.  15th anniversary of International Youth organization, high angle hall, CU audience & podium  Soviet Unions youth organizations chairman Reshekov(?), applause, LS stage.
02:25:30  River view of bank from quiet water, women in experimental stone-soil production factory, work w/ various machinery, CU produced roof tiles, machinery parts, bricks.
02:26:08  Large construction site, men on high cranes raise concrete beams, workers high up on construction girders, welding.  LS building site.
02:26:33  Institute of Experimental Medical Tehnology & demonstration of machinery for treating critical kidney problems, professor in front of doctors shows dialysis machinery in operation on patient.  Patient's blood pumped thru to filter, CU surgeons & patient, medical students watch its operation.
02:27:46  Kamchatka, small plane USSR- 41937, takes off, CU pilot, high angle smoking volcano, scientists  in the aircraft look at volcano w/ binoculars, shot right inside the volcano.
02:28:23  Moscow, people in Red Square, band, delegation bids farewell to motorbike w/ sidecar race to Czechoslovakia, woman gives delegation trophy to hand over to Czechs at the border.  Photographers take pictures, shots of long line of bikes leaving, first one carries Soviet & Czechoslovakian flags.
02:28:49  Pioneer house, exhibition of children's pictures, CU various paintings, kids look at pictures, boy shows his wood sculpture self portrait, shots of paintings & their owners.
02:29:47  'Welcome'.  Moscow's train station; Kiev train arrives at platform, greeted by crowds, Ukrainian artists, writers & other guests greeted w/ flowers. high angle people.  Ukrainian artists on the podium, LS podium, USSR national artist Caryev(?) welcomes guests, applause.
02:30:32  'Abroad'.  Havana, Cuba huge cheering crowds applaud, 1st National Congress of Municipal Education, shot of Fidel Castro on the stage, speaker on the stage thanks revolutionary government for educating their nation, audience give standing applause.  Castro at microphone speaks & gestures, LS stage, Castro's speech from various angles, applause.         

 

LN 400-227  02:31:50 - 02:42:32            1960   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1960 #48 November
Ext. Kremlin, int. Brezhnev
meets president of Finland Kekkonen, shake hands, photographers take pictures,  delegation at meeting table, CU Brezhnev smiles.  Khruschev meets Kekkonen, shake hands, pictures, all  at table, smile.  Shots of various newspaper headlines - 'Friendship w/ Finland is getting stronger'.
02:33:01  'First in USSR'.  Azerbaijan LS HES construction site, CU ext., new power generating machinery operated w/ just 2 workers, int., man near automatic machines, man in control room w/ big control panel, shots of power lines, high angle near by town.
02:33:55 'In Tolstoy memory''.  Int. Ornate Bolshoi theater hall, Tolstoy's memorial meeting w/ Tolstoy portrait on the stage, audience, CU Tolstoys grandsons w/ long beards seated on stage.  Soviet government leaders w/ Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Mikoyan in audience at balcony, high angle audience.  Writer Leonid Leonov on the podium. Archival film of Tolstoy on bench in countryside, writes, saws wood, w/ his wife(?) walks towards camera.
02:34:55  Tajikistan cotton harvest, workers hand pick cotton, workers meeting in the field, woman Umarova picks up diploma of working hero, she explains how the combine works to others, applause.  Umarova drives combine through cotton field, LS combine.
02:35:47  American artists Rockwell Kent art exhibition in Moscow, people queue outside building, Kent cuts  ribbon to open, applause, people enter gallery, look at various paintings, CU art pieces.
02:36:49  Peruvian singer Yma Sumac at piano w/ her family, singer speaks on camera (SOF) w/ Russian translation over), very high angle stage, Yma Sumac sings 'Hymn for the Sun' (SOF), song's composer next to her plays guitar, CU singer, audience applause.
02:38:07  Sport.  Moscow boxing competition between Polish & Soviet army teams, exchange gifts, various shots of fights. knockout, high angle boxing arena.  CU hitting gong.
02:39:05  'Abroad'.  Italy, New apartment blocks that working people can afford.  Palermo, Sicily poor living conditions, slums, narrow streets between overloaded apartment blocks, high angle hut like apartments, CU children.  Street scene, Communist election posters, huge crowds applaud Italian communist party delegates, who walk through crowds.  Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti on podium, speaker from various angles, shots of huge audience crowd, applause.     
02:40:06  'Ukrainian Culture celebrations'.  Ext. Bolshoi theater lighted up, high angle big hall, people applaud entering guests w/ Khrushchev in the front, high angle audience.  Young girls w/ gloves run on the stage, applause, shots of various folk dance performances from various angles.  CU huge statue of Lenin & big Soviet flag behind the chorus singers, audience applaud.  Soviet VIPs in first row applaud, Khrushchev & Podgorny shout out - Hurray to Soviet Union, Ukraine & Communist party, high angle VIPs presented w/ cake, LS stage.
           

LN 400-239  03:17:52 - 03:27:25            1960s 1930s SD        B/W   

[Stories About Communists - Reel 3]
English narration.  INT Revolution Square Station of Moscow Metro - two veterans of Young Communist League who helped build subway meet for annual reunion.  Good 1930s newsreel footage of underground construction - drilling at rockface - young workers - polishing marble - female worker Tatiana Fyodorova, later Deputy to Soviet Parliament.  Present-day interview w/ Fyodorova talking about mechanic colleague Nicolai Fenomello [?] who is now disabled but who she helped return to work in Metro; shots of Fenomello touring Metro, cuts between his face & CUs of statues; supervising construction of new subway lines / stations. 
03:22:37  Shots of operational subway trains inc. PoV from train arriving in station.  Moscow scenes showing overground section of Metro.  Fenomello awarded title of Hero of Socialist Labour - presented w/ Order of Lenin & gold hammer & sicle medal.  Snowy Moscow street scenes.
02:23:58  Zoom in on Kremlin clocktower at one o'clock as bells chime; top shot long queue outside Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square; CUs people waiting to enter - all ages, men & women.
03:25:13  INT modern conference hall - Communist Party Congress? - people in audience w/ medals listening to Brezhnev speech - vars rounds of applause & standing ovation - Lenin flag.  High shot showing crowds marching through Red Square; closer shots of parade w/ Lenin banners [could be 1970 centenary celebrations of Lenins birth].

LN 400-207  12:11:52 - 12:22:33            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1961 #24  June
15Jun61  Khrushchev speech (SOF) on TV and radio, speaks of meeting w/ US President Kennedy in Vienna, discussion of peace agreement w/ Germany & soviet politics; people watch on TV; crowds listen to radio on streets, in cars.
12:14:42  Kremlin palace.  Meeting of scientists from all soviet republics.  All stand up, applaud including Khruschev & other VIPs.  MOS speeches by: Rudniy(?), Kozlov, Keldesh; others by academicians.  Final speech by Kosygin, applause.  After meeting reception, Khrushchev congratulating scientists, full hall of people applaud.
12:17:08  Mountains Susamir(?) /  Kirghizia, sheep run in snowy mountain road, camels eat snow.  Man herdign sheep. Shots of nature - river, fields.  Men build large tunnel up in mountains for north-south highway   
12:18:15  Collective farm 'Udarnik' - combines in large wheat field.
12:19:00  Kremlin palace - Khrushchev w/ VIPs enters w/ Indonesian Prime Minister & President Sukarno & wife.  Sukarno presents Brezhnev with highest Indonesian prize of honor 1st class star, both hug, kiss, 2nd class star for Gagarin.  All applaud incl. delegate wife's(?)
12:19:53  150th anniversary of Vissarion Belinsky in big theater.  Speech by Science Academy's professor, Blagoy.
12:20:26  Outside Tallinn, Estonia  Sidecar motorcycle road racing.  Long shots of race. Winner  - Estonian rider, supporters congratulate new soviet champions.
12:21:26  Moscow  Children's folk concert.  Young group of boys play accordion; perform Russian dance - Poljanka on stage.  Applause.
           

221172          20:54:13 - 21:02:25            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #33 August  Pt. 1 of 2
'All nation debate'.  Soviet people get familiar w/ party's new program, factory meeting, factory leader on the podium reads out CPSU new pogram plans, workers applaud, group of people read newspaper articles.
20:54:59  Talin, Estonia hospital workers read party's plans from the newspaper, general reads newspaper article to USSR soldiers sitting in field, shots of various industry workers reading party's plans.  Woman  worker speaks on camera (SOF) - tells how all soviet nation supports government plans.  National Soviet artist Sirov speaks on camera (SOF), tells, how proud he is of his soviet nation -  communism builders.
20:56:24 'G.Titov's press conference'.  Moscow's State University hall, high angle audience, photographers take pictures, Cosmonaut Titov on stage presented w/ medal by USSR Academy of Science president Keldish, applause, photographers take pictures.  Titovs speech (SOF) tells of his flight to cosmos, speaker from various angles, CU audience, reporters w/ tape recording machines, people give their questions to cosmonaut, high angle hall.
20:58:05  'Towards 22nd CPSU Congress'.  Shot of desert like field, big electric power station, men inside the station, various machinery, CU workers, electric power lines through field.
20:58:40  Man checks enormous open-pit mining machine, tractor drives past, huge machinery, excavating sand and through conveyors moves it in a few km distance.  CU combine driver high up in cabin, shots of various parts of machine.
20:59:18  Kremlin, Brezhnev meets Ceylon ambassador, delegation enter meeting hall, CU Brezhnev, delegates read out speeches & exchange ceremonial documents, shake hands, Brezhnev smiles.
20:59:59  Moscow's friendship house, CU Soviet & Indonesian flags, shots of audience, 16th anniversary of Indonesian Independence Day.  USSR All Union society's chairman-substitute Ivanov on podium w/ various speakers, applause.
21:00:43  Kazakhstan, grain harvest, combines in field, CU combine driver, grain poured into big piles, women move grain w/ shovels, line of trucks drive past grain storage.
21:01:17  CU ice on the sea, big ships thru ice behind icebreaker, high angle ship, captain in the helm room, high angle of ships in line through icy sea.
21:01:45  Moldavia, specially designed apple orchard, small apple trees, w/ thin  branches, but w/ nice, big apples, scientists check the apple trees, high angle field.         

 

LN 400-227  02:10:12 - 02:20:54            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #13 April
'Guests from Burma in Moscow'.  CU airplane, Burmese General Ne Win (?) w/ wife exits aircraft, greeted by USSR defense minister Marshall Malinovsky, shake hands.  Malinovsky & Ne Win walk past & salute military, national flags flying.  Kremlin, Khruschev meets General Ne Win, shake hands, talk at table.
02:11:27  Storming of Cosmos continues.  Rocket launch w/ dogs, Belka & Strelka, & rats on board, CU dogs at lift off, rats flying weightless in space, nose cone lands w/ parachute, scientists check dogs.
02:12:33  Press conference in Academy of Science, scientists tell reporters of their research results from animal flights to space, CU reporters make notes, dogs shown in front of reporters, photographers take pictures, dogs on way home by car.
02:13:14 'Towards 22nd congress of CPSU'.  Turkmania, helicopter delivers workers to desert construction site & oil drilling, CU drilling machinery, oil out of pipe, line of tractors w/ pipes for pipeline & pulling derrick.
02:14:28  TV set manufacturing factory, conveyor w/ television tubes, workers manually move parts.  Robotic manufacturing of picture tubes.  Fully automatic factory, machines, high angle machinery.
02:15:16  Kremlin, Brezhnev meets Mali ambassador, delegates read their speeches & exchange documents, shake hands, Brezhnev smiles.
02:15:56  Medical students, newlyweds Tanya & Boris, hold 16mm film & 35mm of their trip to Ceylon, couple speak (SOF) & tell that they have decided to move to Ceylon to work as doctors so they can get proper experience as there arent many doctors there, shot of medical students on their way to institute.
02:16:54  Tajikistan, sheep in field, farmers weigh young lamb on scales, CU Tajik farmers, shots of sheep.
02:17:35  Woods, CU of feet walking, hand picks up dry branch, w/ little knife shapes it into reindeer, shots of various wood figurines, CU artist Vera, sculpts figures out of wood,
02:18:29  Latvia, fashion designers in bus, look at drawings, women demonstrate new collection of work clothes, women model new comfortable clothes outside farm, inside hothouse, in textile factory, doing housework.  Gag; design.
02:19:17  Moscow, CU guest of Moscow's Friendship University Paul Robeson, applause, Robeson on stage presented w/ order of honor & painting of Patrice Lumumba, sings in Russian (SOF), audience applaud.
02:20:18  Latvia, Aluksne lake, winter, All Union ice boat race, man looks w/ binoculars, yachts on ice from various angles, winning team from Estonia, throws in the air their driver (brief).

221171          18:15:18 - 18:26:02            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #30 July
'Soviet - Sudan friendship is getting stronger'.  Khruschev meets Sudan's Prime minister - Ibrahim Abboud at Black Sea resort of Sochi; crowds applaud, take pictures, Khrushchev & Abboud smile & wave.  They drive in open top car.  Shot of the sea.  Khruschev & Abboud on balcony wave to people gathering on the beach. Khrushchev & Abboud in meeting hall stand next to table, walk out of building down the stairs towards beach, put hand around each other, talk on pier, shake hands, smile, Khrushchev waves as Abboud leaves in boat.
18:16:52  'Winners of Moscow's kinofestival'.  2nd International Moscow Film Festival.  High angle of cinema Russia, big cinema hall.  On podium USSR Minister of Culture Kurcova, audience applaud, CU of medals, prize giving, 1st prize split between 2 best movies from Japanese and Soviet producers, all winners greeted on stage, applause, big kiss.
18:18:05 'Towards 22nd congress of CPSU'.  Siberia, big rocks, newly built railway line through Siberian taiga.  Crowds gather for new railroad's opening, cut the ribbon, train goes thru big bridge over dam construction site, shots of train.
18:18:55 'Worldwide youth forum'.  Ext. of building w/ banner, young people from 91 countries gather; on podium USSR chairman of Committee of organizations of Soviet youth, Various nationalities applaud, shot of stage w/ big poster.  Various speakers incl. chairman Bobrovnikov, head of Soviet delegation.  Pavlov reads out greetings from Khrushchev (MOS), CU people listen w/ earpieces, audience give standing applause.  Delegation of Moscow children run into hall w/ flowers & balloons, kids in various national costumes dance on stage, balloons passed over audience.
18:20:42  Kremlin.  Brezhnev meets ambassador of Nepal Sinha (?), both parties read their speeches and give exchange ceremonial documents, shake hands.
18:21:21  Ukraine collective farm leader in car, thru huge field; 2 men walk through buckwheat field, look at plants.  CU pig farm leader walks past workers, checks tractor, high angle pigs outside sheds of farm.  Views of man driving swather cutting grain.  High angle farm house & buildings, CU farm leader in car drives past big fields. 18:22:26  Girls pick flowers, lots of ducks on lake, young summer workers fill food trays for young ducks on duck farm, girl rings bell, all ducks run to the farm, HA birds, CU teenagers.
18:23:08  Western Siberia, Altai mountains, mountaineering expedition along ridge & snow field, shot of climbing boots, man crosses rivers on rope, group thru snow field & rappeling down icy cliffs.  CU girl in sunglasses smiles, looks up to the sky, shot of mountains w/ clouds.
18:23:54  Moldavian folk group performing on stage, CU male singer sings in Moldavian (SOF), shot of people up in the tree. Various shots of ensemble members - play music instruments, sing, public applaud.
18:24:48 'Warshav applauds Gagarin'.  Streets packed w/ people, crowds gather in central airport to greet Yuri Gagarin, people look up the sky.  Gagarin off plane, waves & shakes hands w/ Polish Workers Party leaders, photographers take pictures.  Big crowds, Gagarin on podium in large square.  Gagarin thru streets in open car, escorted by policemen on motorbikes, roadside packed w/ people, wave flags, throw flowers at passing car.  Car stops, crowds of people shake car as Gagarin looks around, smiles, shots of Gagarin throwing flowers from car to the public.  The End.          

 

 

LN 400-228  04:20:11 - 04:30:16            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #21 May
'Prime Minister of Somalia Republic in Moscow',  Kremlin Khrushchev meets Somalia's prime minister Abdi Rashid Ali Shirmarke (aka Abdirashid Ali Shermarche) shake hands, at table, CU Khrushchev & Shermarche.
Mikoyan meets Somalian delegation w/ Prime Minister Shermarche.  Mikoyan leads Shermarche to seat at  meeting table, CU Shermarche & Mikoyan.
04:21:47  'Towards 22nd congress of CPSU'  Large factory w/ workers at punch presses.  Man speaks, SOF,  about new machinery he invented, woman feeding punch press & blanking die; men at drafting board, one tells camera how he plans new machinery in his free time, high angle factory floor.
04:22:51  Country field, CU flower, men w/ planting machines, truck arrives & workers fill planters w/ seed. CU farms leader, high angle planters in the field, tractor pulls 4 planters, high angle of field.
04:23:35  Presentation of International Lenin Prize', CU Lenin medal & prize book, prize winner writer Mikhail Sodovian(?) on stage presented w/ prize, applause, people congratulate writer.
04:24:10  Kremlin, Brezhnev presents award to USSR Soviet Ministers Deputy Chairman Nikolay Ignatov, shake hands, hug, kiss on lips, Brezhnev pins medals on Ignatovs chest.
04:24:53  USSR Academy of Science elections, people ballots, elected academic Keldish onto stage, applause, CU Keldish, audience applauds.
04:25:26  Kremlin, Brezhnev w/ Italy Ambassador Carlo Alberto Straneo, speeches & exchange documents.
04:26:11  Kabardino Balkaria, summer tourist expedition by helicopter, shadow seen on mountains lake.   Tourists off helicopter, walk thru trees to a lake, mountains behind. View of waterfall turning to mist over rocks.  LS tourists crossing bridge over river in narrow canyon.
04:27:08  Moscow, 2nd Traditional Song festival, squares filled w/ people listening to choruses, banner, big crowds near Bolshoi Theater, chorus on theater steps sings fragment from M. Glinka opera 'Ivan Susanin'' (SOF), CU chorus singers, shot of theater building, audience, fountain in the square, applause.
04:28:10  Uzbekistan, plane over mountains & view of past pilots in cockpit.  Sheep in back of aircraft delivered in 45 min. (it takes 2 months by foot).  Man w/ radio control on the field, plane lands, sheep jump out of plane & graze in pasteur.  
04:28:53  'Yuri Gagarin - guest of Bulgaria', Gagarin off airplane, smiles, greeted by crowds & Bulgarian  leaders w/ communist partys 1st secretary Todor Zhivkov, hug & kiss, photographers take pictures, Zhivkov & Gagarin thru crowds, woman runs up from behind & kisses Gagarin, crowds cheer & applaud; Gagarin w/ big smile walks past his greeters.  People waving from apartment balconies, road sides packed w/ people, Gagarin & Zhivkov in open car; people hold up big Gagarin portraits; people on bus roofs, balconies, Gagarin waving, high angle motorcade, w/ huge crowds of spectators on both sides.
           

221194          08:21:18 - 08:32:02            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #26 July
'Kazak Nation's Festival'  Plane arrives w/ mountains behind, Khrushchev off & waves hat, shakes hands w/ Kazak VIPs & kids give flowers, motorcade to Astana past waving, cheering crowds, Khrushchev waves from open car.  Meeting in large hall w/ Kazakhstan's party leaders & soviet delegates incl.  Khrushchev & Arganov applaud.  On podium 1st Secretary of Kazakhstan Communist Party Kunayev; Khrushchev on podium.
08:23:28  'Soviet-Vietnamese friendship is getting stronger'  Large Kremlin auditorium w/ meeting of USSR & Vietnamese delegations,VIPs w/ Khruschev, Brezhnev on stage, applauding audience; Khruschev hugs  Vietnam Prime Minister Phan Van Dong, high angle audience.  Various speakers & audience in CU.  Phan Van Dong on the podium w/ K. raising arm in air.
08:25:01  'Korean guests in Moscow'  29Jun61 Moscow's airport w/ Soviet & North Korea flags as Khruschev  greets Kim Il Sung & delegation; walk past military & flag waving people.  Kremlin  Khrushchev greets Korean delegation in front of photograpehrs, shake hands, sit at meeting table, CI Khrushchev & Kim II-Sung, smile.
Brezhnev meets Kim II Sung, kiss, photographers, shake hands, talk at meeting table, CUs smiling.
08:26:45  Kazakhstan  Pan over large open-pit iron mine; large shovel digging & CU shovel operator. High angle filling rail cars & ore train past camera.
08:27:38  Kiev  City street scenes, people in park, monuments, city at night, crowds watch fireworks in honor of city receiving Lenin order.       
08:28:18  Pan over grain field, swather mowing grain & combine following harvesting.
08:28:52  Large railroad maintenance machine removing old track & laying replacement track. Passenger train past.
08:29:35  CU newly constructed ore carrying ship past on Volga; captain on bridge.  CU controls.
08:30:06  Moscow, fashion show 'Holland 1961', modeling suits, blouses, skirts & coats, wedding gowns on catwalk, audience and models, applause.
08:30:56  Leningrad, USSR men's gymnastic competition; tumbling & performances on bar & parallel bars.  Trophies given for first place to Moscow athlete Victor Leonyev.  The End.       

 

LN 400-232  13:08:09 - 13:18:51            1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1961 #28 July
'Our Homeland's Wings'  Crowds at airfield, Tushino Aviation Day Parade, VIPs on podium w/ Khrushchev, Gagarin, people w/ binoculars, planes in sky spell LENIN, people smile, applaud, helicopters fly over w/  Soviet flag, USSR space ship 'Vostok', acrobats hang from helicopter, air show plans stunting.  VIP's watch    various large planes, incl. M-50 Bounder, w/ fighter jets fly over.  Parachutists land near grandstand.
13:10:48 'Honored Ghana Guest'  Kremlin, Brezhnev & President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on official visit to USSR, shake hands, have friendly conversation, CU smiling Kwame.  Khrushchev meets Nkrumah, hug, delegates w/ K., Gromyko & others at meeting table.
13:11:45  'Film-art Festival', 2nd Moscow's International Film Festival in Sports Palace, VIP's on balcony w/ Khruschev, shots of audience.  CU Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida; Joris Ivens from Holland; Soviet Producer Sergei Gerasimov, artists Elena Bistricka(?), & Evgeny & Tatyana Somoylovs.  At the mic Festival jury chairman Soviet producer Sergei Yutkevich, shot of audience, big Festival placard on stage.
13:12:28  USSR Minister of Culture Furcova, applauding audience, President of International Federation of Producer Association Otkins(?), applause. 1st Festival prizewinners Producer Sergei Bondarchuk & Vietnam actress actress Lan raise festivals flag.  Cinema Russia, crowds entering, shot of African man in colorful costume w/ big fur hat, high angle audience, LS artists lined up on the stage, LS audience.
13:13:29  CU 13 letters written by Lenin, featuring labor movement in Russia.  Institute of Marxism & Leninism presented w/ important historical letters by elderly Belgian professor.
13:14:04  Brezhnev meets Ambassador of United Arab Republic Mohamed Morada(?), ceremony.
13:14:35  Aerial tramway over valley between lime stone mines & cement factory.  CU buckets & dumping at factory.  Machinery & smoking chimneys.  
13:15:10  Snovropol,Buban youth arrives to study at machinery schools, greeted on train platform. CU Cuban students given flowers, square filled w/ crowds, people on podium, read out welcome speeches (MOS).
Cuban delegation leader at mic.
13:15:56  Tractor in big field, new process cutting grain & planting corn at same time,  machinery from various angles.  Newly planted field & new corn crop.
13:16:42  Riga, Latvia  Baltic states motorbike race on wet road, spectators, on the roadsides in woods.
13:17:37  'Yuri Gagarin in London'  Motorcade thru streets from airport to town center, Gagarin stands in open top car waving; motorcade arrives Earls Court USSR Trade Fair, Gagarin exits car.  Press conference,  photographers, Gagarin on at microphone, British VIPs present cosmonaut w/ gold medal, delegates pose for pictures.  The End.

LN 400-219  10:18:49 - 10:29:19           1961   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1961  #25 June
Soviet Nations Huge Victory.  Kremlin meeting, 20th Anniversary since beginning of war.  Public applaud, Communist party & government leaders on stage w/ (10:19:34) Brezhnev & Khrushchev in military (army) uniforms.
10:19:40  Opening speech (MOS) by Moscow's party's 1st secretary Timachev(?).  Standing applause  - soldiers led byUSSRt heroes march in w/ Soviet union flag.  Soviet Marshal Malinovsky speech (MOS). Various VIP's on podium (all MOS).
10:20:36  Closing speech by Krushchev (SOF) in uniform. CUs of audience. All rise, applaud.
10:22:39  High Prize. Kremlin, Brezhnev presents Khruschev w/ Lenin prize and 3rd gold medal, all smile, applaud, Brezhnev puts medals on Krushchev's jacket.  Khrushchev, kiss on lips, shake hands.  Others presented w/ prizes incl. Central Committee Secretary Kozlov, Deputy Chairman Uztinov(?), Science Academy President Keldish, Deputy Chairman Rudnev(?), Minister Kalmikov & Brezhnev
.
10:23:56  Ukraine. Big tire production factory, men at large automatic machinery, ready tyres on conveyor.
10:24:43  Ukraine. High angle car drives through country road.  CU of collective farms leader in car.  Tractors in field.  Man walks through crop field.  Cattle herd.  Farmer out of pig farm, talks w/ collective farm head.  Nicely dressed young people, couples walk on street, meet w/ Farms leader.
10:25:40  Kremlin interior, Brezhnev
meets Indian representative Sudimal Dakta(?), exchange speeches, shake hands, Brezhnev smiles.
10:26:18  Yuri Gagarin visits home town, Gzhatsk.  Greeted by applauding crowd, little girl gives flowers. Walks thru street hand in hand w/ his parents. On podium in big square, people smile applaud.
10:27:05  High angle seaside.  Crowded beach. Men & women on street in swimming suits.  Man w/ inflated boat on his shoulders, people sunbath, sun tans.  Tourist listens  to guide, takes pictures.  Group run into water.  Band's music instruments - trumpets, drums left lying on beach.  People swim, woman w/ furry hat & boy on catamaran, speed boats.  High angle beach, ship in the sea.
10:27:54  People in grandstand of central Lenin stadium. CU of high jumper Valery Brumel smiling.  Judges set up new high on bar - 223 cm.  Reporters w/ cameras. Shot of world record setting jump, athlete jumps, is congratulated by coach, poses for pictures.
10:28:35  Moscow, high angle city streets, Red Square.  City's young graduates meet for summer's shortest nights celebration. CUs faces, girls w/ flowers, sing, laugh, group of girls all hold hands, walk thru square, sing, guy w/ accordion, all dressed in prom dresses, guy's in suits.
             

LN 400-205  09:53:55 - 10:02:40            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1962 #40  October  Pt 1 of 2
'Khrushchev in Tajikistan'. Tajik crowds welcome Khruschev, hug and kiss on cheeks.  Delegation looks at new types of sheep in pens, piles of wool next to it.  Visit cotton fields w/ new machinery used for collection.
09:55:21  Brezhnev visit to Yugoslavia.  Streets full of people greeting Brezhnev & Tito in open top car.  City view.  Brezhnev
& Tito sign agreement for successful collaboration.
09:56:19  Soviet celebration of 13th Anniversary of Chinese Peoples Republic.  Moscow Party Secretary Egorochev at podium, applause.  Chairman Prokurov at podium; Chinese representatives making speeches (MOS).  Guests greeted with flowers by Pioneers.
09:57:24  Kremlin palace.  Soviet chairman Arganov greeting in official visit to USSR  US delegation incl. Foy Koller(?).  Cameraman CU.
09:57:59  New Russian port, arrival of ship 'Georgia' from Turkey w/ Kazak fugitive descendants from 250 years ago, forced to grow up abroad, finally returning home. Big crowds greeting them.
09:58:42  Moldavia.  Big grape fields, women picking grapes, packing them into boxes.  Baskets full of grapes lined up.
09:59:17  Asian Siberian Arctic Mischiluskin(?) end of September.  Rowing thru chunks of snow and ice.  200 years old memorial - placed there by Semjon Cheluckin.  Meteorology or weather center, people working inside with forecast predictions for shipping.
10:00:17  Moscow  New invention -  shop 'Progress' with no staff, everything operated w/ modern automatic machinery.  Future.  Woman putting milk bottles into machine.  Customers put in money, choose products and collecting them.  Nighttime shopping.  Future.
10:01:09  Lithuanian jewelry factory 'Daile' producing things from  pieces of amber from coast of Baltic sea. Different sorts of decorative mosaics made from amber. (ugly art)
10:01:53  Large concert hall concert, composer Igor Stravinsky conducting orchestra in a piece from Petrouska.  Bowing.  Public applauding. Large organ pipes behind.
10:02:40 Sport (

 

LN 400-207  12:22:44 - 12:33:23            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1962 #22  June
Kremlin palace meeting of Soviet and Mali, Africa.  Communist & government leaders incl Krushchev, Brezhnev & others w/ African delegation on stage.  Deguy(?), Moscow party chairman at mic.  All applaud,  Khrushchev speech (SOF).  Mali republic's first president Modibo Keita speech in French (voice over translaton to Russian).  Krushchev and African leader emotionally shake hands, hug.  Stand, hold hands in the air, public cheer. (GOOD)
12:26:11 Turkmenia , huge barley crop field.  Men work on combines harvesting.
12:27:01  Moscow,  International Conference of Soviet Society members.   MOS speeches by Nikolay Tihonov, by writer Aleksandr Kornechuk(?) & others; vote for cooperation & peace.
12:28:03  Huge mining equipment that replaces 1000 people in iron ore open pit mine production.
12:28:45  Moscow, opening of Italian Trade Fair & exhibition, Khruschev w/ other VIPs.  Italian ambassador Karlo Alberto Straneo(?) speech (MOS), shake hands w/ Khrushchev who makes welcoming speech. Leaders inspect exhibition - cars, machinery etc.
12:30:00  New invention - huge corn planter that can process up to 50 hectares a day.  Inventors show how the tractor works loading seed, unfolding and planting.
12:30:56  Kremlin palace, final performance of Czechoslovakian folk dance & singing group,
12:31:39  01Jun62  In honor of 40th anniversary of Pioneers organization, stadium celebrations with opening of Pioneer & schoolchildren palace.  Khruschev  (in bowler? hat) takes part.  Youth march with flags.  Very young boy accepts symbolic  golden key from palace builders.  Kids give flowers.  Krushchev surrounded by children cuts ribbon (good ribbon cutting) and all enter into huge kids play house w/ swings etc.
           

221172          21:04:58 - 21:15:38            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #37 September
'Warning to Aggressors'.  Moscow, factory workers in anti-American meeting in support of Cuba, CU workers, factory workers Anti-American speech (SOF), applause.
21:06:13  Leningrad, factory worker's protest meeting, placards in support for Cuba, speaker on podium, applause, high angle people & crowds.
21:07:00  Ukraine, women in grain field harvest crop, CU teams leader true communist -  Nadjezhda, makes  hay bundles, women listen to Nadjezhdas encouragement.  Teams leader walks through corn field w/ collective farms leader, plants higher than they are.  Communist Nadjezhda speaks on camera in Ukrainian(SOF), encourages people to be true communist.
21:08:30 'Gas pipeline in the mountains'.  Big explosion in mountains, trucks carry big pipes, high angle construction site & workers laying pipes, shot of long pipeline through field.  Man welds, pipe covered w/ protective coating w/ special machinery, high angle pipeline.
21:09:27  Belgrade, shot thru landing airplane's window, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Titov exits aircraft, greeted by Yugoslavian VIPs, cheering crowds.  Titov on podium, huge crowds of people cheering.  Titov in open top car thru city streets filled w/ supporter crowds. people cheer, applaud. Titov waves from car.
21:10:20  Moscow State University, International symposium about highest technical and humanitarian education, high angle delegation on the stage.  On podium English professor Sesil Paul(?), CU audience listening w/ earpieces.  Deputy Chairman of USSR soviet of ministers Rudnev on the podium, reads out message from Khruschev, applause, various shots of audience w/ earpieces, various nationality speakers on podium, high angle audience.
21:11:30  Odessa port, big crowds greet Soviet liner returning from Havana w/ 400 Cuban students on board  coming to study for a year, CU Cuban men, big crowds applaud, cheer.
21:12:07  CU cartoon, famous Dutch comic creator Herluf Bitstrup in Moscow on the street draws fountain, in exhibition draws group of children.  House of friendship, Moscow society members greet Bitstrup on 50th birthday, applause, Bitstrup thanks people for making him feel so welcome, signs autographs.
21:13:05  CU trophies, people compete in race in honor of 150th anniversary of Patriotic War.  Man fires starting pistol for the start, high angle runners, athletes pass on the race to bicycle riders, then its passed on to athletes in the boat race, and final part of race  - running, winning team get prize.
21:14:07  'Ensemble Lado in Moscow'.  Yugoslavian folk dance ensemble performs on stage, fragments from various dances, stage from various angles, applause.  Brezhnev, Kurcova & Yugoslavia ambassador Myatovich in audience on balcony, smile, applaud, public applaud.    

 

LN 400-227  02:42:42 - 02:52:47            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #20 May 
'Celebrations of Brotherly Friendship'.  Bulgaria, Khrushchev in open car thru city streets filled w/ cheering crowds, people take pictures, huge sign welcoming Dear Khruschev across road, people on roadside wave. 
Khrushchev greeted w/ traditional gift bread &salt, he kisses bread, pulls off little piece, smiles, high angle crowds.  Khrushchev  & Soviet & Bulgarian delegation walks thru street, shipyard; Khrushchev on podium,smiles & waves, ship construction factory workers applaud, cheer.  Khrushchev and factory leader exchange presents - ship models, applause, cheer.  Varna, square w/ huge crowds of people, Khrushchev & VIPs on  balcony, Khrushchev presented w/ traditional hat, puts it on to Khrushchev's head, applause.  Bulgarian republic's chairman Anton Yugov on podium w/ Khrushchev who smiles, thanks for a warm welcome; Varna Soviet Chairman presents Khrushchev w/ diploma of city's guest of honor, kiss, high angle cheering crowds.
02:45:36  'Famous anniversary'.  Kremlin, big hall, 40th anniversary of Soviet Pioneers in name of Lenin. CU pioneers applaud to flag brought in, shots of audience.  Speaker reads out Khrushchev's letter, standing applause.  Brezhnev  presents Pioneers w/ Order of Lenin, pins it to Pioneer flag, applause, high angle stage, CU big portrait of Lenin on the wall.  Chairwoman of Central Committee of Pioneer organization Balasnaya(?), applause.  Children give flowers & put pioneer tie around necks of Brezhnev & other VIPs.  Group of Pioneers at microphone (SOF) shout out enthusiastically that they are always ready to follow their party, high angle applauding audience.
02:47:35  Int. Kremlin, LS stage, Lenin's Order ceremony for Literature & Art public figures, Writer Nikolay Thihonov at the microphone presents various artists w/ Lenin prize, applause, CU prize winners.
02:48:26  Moscow, ext. museum building, int. exhibition of Marx & Engels:  various paintings, pictures telling Marx & Engels life story, shots of their personal belongings, book library.
02:49:11 Plane lands on Arctic ice, boxes unloaded.  Scenes from first days on North Pole 11 station, people prepare tent, enter it, man at telegraph, sends & receives signals.  Scientists surveying, make notes, plane takes off, team waves to last aircraft, high angle camp on the ice field.
02:50:12   Moscow's Sport Palace, All Union Gymnastics competition, audience applauds, high angle 1st prize winner gymnast performs on pole, applause.  Female gymnast runs up to horse & jumps over it, applause, shots of performance on poles, high angle various jumps, applause.  Winning team presented w/ main prize by Newspaper 'Pravda'.
02:51:25 'Soviet exhibition in Brazil'.  Rio de Janeiro street scenes, people crowds gather outside trade fair gates.  Ribbon cutting opening of trade show, people view exhibitis of cars, ship models, machinery, space.   The president of Brazil Joalo Goulart attends the exhibition, CU Goulart, VIPs delegation w/ president Goulart and USSR Trade minister Potolechev, walk through trade fare, high angle exhibition halls  filled w/ people.            

 

221194          08:32:14 -  08:42:28           1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #24 June
14Jun62  Kremlin meeting of Khrushchev & Prime Minister of Senegal Mamadou Dia (PM till 18Dec62 when arrested attempting a coup); sign agreement of collaboration, LS table w/ delegates standing behind it, CU Mikoyan.  K. & Dia shake hands.
08:33:29  'On the country's fields' Kabardino Balkaria, aerials over large fields; tractor on field, CU sign - Corn Growing School.  Farmers out of school, look at newly invented cultivating machine.  Tractor pulling & cultivating corn,  crop duster plane over field aerial spraying.
08:34:23  Tajikistan  Barley harvest w/ combines & trucks in field.  Low angle CU of barley.  Fields & CU shots of combine driver harvesting  & grain into trucks.
08:34:59  Kremlin  Khrushchev w/ People's Republic of Poland delegation w/ Marshal Cheslav Vicep(?).
08:35:31  Gorky 1st Modern Music Festival   People in square overlooking river, photographer takes pictures, people on the street.  Workers listen to orchestra performance in long factory hall, applause, give flowers to artists.  Festival hall, CU conductor Kiril Kondrashin in front of orchestra w/ American pianist Van Cliburn, CU pianist, applause, Cliburn shakes hands w/ conductor.  People give flowers to Clibern.
08:36:59  Synthetic wool factory looms.  Strands out of machinery in manufacturing new type synthetic wool 'Lavsana'.  CU fake wool.  New artificial wool products on display, men look at shirts, woman tries on blouse.
08:37:42  House of Soviets, 15th Medical Science Meeting.  Various medical professors & scientists speaking on podium. Various shots of stage and audience.
08:38:37  Newly invented track vehicle GPI 37 driven thru uneven field; men open car hood & look at motor.  CU track & vehicle drives on field,  thru lake, through long grass.
08:39:21  Full stadium watches Igor Ter-Ovenesyan of USSR set long jump record, CU Igor speaks w/ his coach, shot of record setting jump, applause, CU Rigor smiles.  Broad jump; track & field meet.
08:39:58  'Happy farewell'  15Jun62  Crowd on train platform asl Khruhchev leaves for Rumania.  VIPs incl. Brezhnev, Kosygin, Suslov and others; kids give flowers to K.  K. waves from moving train doorway, photographers take pictures, people wave, CU waving VIPs.
08:40:46  'Uzbekistan's 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

221194          08:42:37 - 08:53:20            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #33 August
USSR cosmonaut pictures against animated background & years they flew to space: 1st Y. Gagarin 12Apr61, 2nd G. Titov 06Aug61, 3rd 11-15Aug62 A. Nikolayev & P. Popovich, title - 'Happy Returns'.
15Aug  Big army helicopter lands, soviet cosmonauts Nikolayev & Popovich quickly out & into into car.    Khrushchev & Brezhnev sits at table, K. speaks on telephone w/ Nikolayev (SOF), congratulates them & says how proud he is & gives his best wishes.  K. hands phone to Brezhnev
who congratulates cosmonauts (SOF).  People outside house where cosmonauts are staying, CU Nikolayev getting shave, cosmonauts eat at big table.  CU photographer, Nikolayev & Popovich exit & smile standing on podium, people cheer, pick up autographs thrown in crowds, CU newspaper page w/ cosmonaut pictures & autographs.  People wave as cosmonauts enter plane.  Ukraine village houses, int. cosmonauts father Roman Popovich on telephone surrounded by family members, people crowd to greet cosmonauts parents, shake hands, kiss, applaud, CU Popovich's mother very moved, CU photos of Popovich and Nikolayev.
08:46:44  Leningrad.  Huge crowds in big square, applause, speaker on podium, people march thru streets w/ placards, cheer; people gather in various squares  to show their support to cosmonauts, CU people.
08:47:17  Moscow  Factory workers meeting, speaker on podium (SOF) in the name of all factory's workers, gives congratulations to cosmonauts & to USSR scientists & technicians who built the space ships.
08:47:56  'World is amazed'  Czech travellers give interview in front of state university (SOF), how happy they are to be in Moscow when cosmonauts competed their trip, & give greetings to 'real future travellers'.
08:48:31  Budapest,  People in streets buy & read newspapers.  People watch television w/ cosmonauts on  TV screen, people around radio, men around car listen to the radio.  World aerobatic champion Jozsev Toth speaks on camera (Russian translation over), to give pilot team's best wishes to cosmonauts.   English language newspapers in CU, watching television.
08:49:29  Sofia  crowds buy newspapers, crowd applauds people on Soviet embassy balcony.  Factory worker meeting in big factory hall, speakers on the podium.
08:50:00  'Homeland praises its heroes'  Moscow big plane in the air surrounded by fighter jets.  Waiting VIPs & others.  Popovich & Nikolayev down red carpet to VIPs w/ K., Nikolayev gives his account (SOF) of mission.  Popovich says (SOF) ship was perfect & he is ready for next mission.  K. hugs Nikolayev, long kiss on lips, then hug, kisses Popopvich, high angle other VIPs give congratulations.  K. & cosmonauts walk past  crowds, high angle delegates, shot of cameramen on scaffolding.
08:52:15  Motorcade, Nikolayev & Popovich in decorated open top car, wave to roadside crowds.  VIPs in convertible w/ Brezhnev
, Khrushchev.  Red Square from various angles, huge crowds around Lenin mausoleum, government leaders w/ Khrushchev & Popovich, Nikolayev, Gagarin & Titov, CU happy people applaud, cheer, CU all 4 cosmonauts side by side, various shots of cheering people.  The End         

 

221194          08:53:27 - 09:03:55            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #26 June
'Important Austrian guest'  Moscow airport, plane arrives w/ Federal Chancellor of Austria Dr. Alfons Gorbach greeted by Khruschev & VIPs incl. Mikoyan on official visit to USSR,  Hand shaking, flowers.  K. & Gorbach review military, delegates shake hands w/ VIPs.  K. at microphone & Gorbach at mic before leaving.  Kremlin, K. greets Gorbach; at meeting table.  Gromyko next to K.  Gorbach meets Brezhnev & take seats at table,
08:55:46  Kremlin  Meeting of Russian Federations of Central Regions, high angle meeting hall, VIPs enter to aplause. Khrushchev on podium, audience watching.  K. CU & gesturing (good).
08:56:58 'On the Kuban fields'  Large grain field, combine pulling planter as it harvests grain.  New invention also pulls straw behind as it cuts grain.  CU farmers check the tiny corn plants.
08:58:08  High angle electrical generating plant w/ coal? on conveyor belts.  Ore poured in machinery, high angle factory hall, workers check on big automatic machines, CU control panel, woman looks at TV monitor, conveyor w/ ground coal (?) piled in outdoor storage.
08:58:59  June  Ext. USSR State University yard & students review for exams, waiting in hallways, shot of students in exam room supervised by teacher, CU student Valentin,writes exam, working in metallurgy factory w/ various machines, student answers teacher's questions who writes grade in book.  Valentin shows others that hes passed, smiles, friends shake hands. 
08:59:55  Moscow  Filmmakers return from International Film Festival, producer Mikhail Romm, script writer Daniel Khrabrovitskii & actor Aleksei Botalov off plane.  CU Filmmakers show trophy for film 'Nine days of One Year'.  Mikhail Romm speaks (SOF) on camera, says how glad he & his team are for winning first prize.
09:00:39  Bird flock fly in air, CU black head gulls.  Gulls fly over small island in lake, CU birds, shot of eggs in grass, gulls on water, birds fly up in the air, shot of sky filled w/ gulls.
09:01:23  Outskirts of Riga, go-cart racing, various shots of the race, spectators, racer drops out. Checkered finish flag, applause, CU winner given prize.
09:02:18  'Leningrad's 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.

221159          21:37:26 - 21:48:01            1962   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1962 #39 September  
Khrushchev's visit to Ashgabat, shot of aircraft, people applaud, Kruschev exits plane, waves hat, shakes hands, kisses Turkmenistan's government leaders, children give flowers, women present traditional gift - home made bread & salt, applause, Krushchev tastes bread.  Delegation  past crowds, photographers.  Brief thru city's streets w/ cheering crowds in open top car.
21:39:08  Belgrade, Yugoslavia airport.  Arriving plane, Brezhnev exits, wife behind him, greeted by President Tito & partner, smile, shake hands, kids give flowers.  Troops reviewed, band.  General salutes, delegation past troops. Tito at mic, reads speech from notes (MOS), Brezhnev at microphone.
21:40:13  Brezhnev & Tito thru streets in open car, police motorcyles on both sides, streets filled w/ crowds.  Brezhnev enters hall, smiles, greeted by Tito & wife.  Tito & Brezhnev at small table, both smile.
21:40:41  Huge steel mill.  Men inside factory next to the big furnace w/ sparks flying in air, shots of large machinery, big ovens w/ molten steel, CU workers, banner.
21:41:44  CU wheat, field.  Harvesting, combines thru fields.  Grain from huge piles poured  w/ augers into lorry & trailers & trucks driven away.
21:42:19  Kuybyshev (aka Samara), big square, workers' meeting, speakers on podium read out Soviet governments greetings (MOS), various speakers on podium, people applaud.
21:42:47  Kremlin, Soviet delegates & delegation from Cameroon meet to sign trade agreement.  USSR Foreign Trade Minister Patolichev & Cameroon National Economics Minister Kango (wears sunglasses).  Delegates shake hands.
21:43:20  Chelyabinsk region country side, round building;  new, automatic milking dairy farm; inside round hall women put milking machines on cows, high angle farm hall.
21:43:57  New hydroplane motor ship 'Tihar' in water, CU shipbuilders on board, shot of passenger cabin w/ 300 seats, people in conformable chairs.  Shot through window.
21:44:24  Moscow, filming set movie 'War and Peace'.  Shots of soldiers escorting prisoners responsible for setting fire to Moscow, people incl. young boy, tied up and shot, CU Sergei Bondarchuk as character of Pierre Bezukov; also the film director.  Bondarchuk talks w/ his cameraman.
21:45:14  Budapest world championship in weightlifting, shots of various weighlifting classes by US & Soviet leading sportsmen N.Shamansky & Y. Vlasov, audience applaud.  Winner Y. Vlasov on podium w/ prize, supporters applaud.
21:46:24  Moscow, Bolshoi theater, American actor Jerome Hines in make up room, gets ready to perform as Boris in opera Boris Godunov, puts on tsar's costume.  Fragment from opera, stage full of actors  J. Hines sings (SOF), curtains close, standing applause.

LN 400-201  01:59:39 - 02:09:49            1963   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1963 #39 September
Khruschev in Cubana  CU road sign to rice growing collective farm, big crop field, irrigation dam & canal, rice harvest, CU combines in field, cut the crop, collect rice grain.  Rice poured into big piles in outside storage, CU smiling workers, man moves grain w/ shovel.  Khruschev w/ farmers walk thru field, looks at rice straw, shake hands w/ workers, talks w/ female worker.  Collective farm central house, farms oldest blacksmith presents Khrushchev w/ traditional greeting bread and salt, crowd watches, man holds huge bread in front of Khrushchev who laughs, tries the bread, Khrushchev & Chairman Voronov on podium, waves his hat, Khrushchev speaks to people, applause, shot of people crowd.  K. leaves in open car.
02:01:36  In The Interest of All Nations  25Sep  LS Kremlin.  Meeting of CPSU CC for Moscow ratification agreement; Brezhnev at head of table, CU Brezhnev, deputy foreign minister Kuzhnecov on podium, shot of  delegates at meeting table.  Brezhnev reads proposal forbidding use of nuclear weapons, delegates vote in favor, applause.  Brezhnev
signs agreement, delegates come to shake Brezhnevs hand, all smile.
02:02:54  People on street, read newspaper article of Soviet government announcement against China.Factory worker on cameras (SOF) says that all USSR people are disgusted w/ Chinese governments actions, & give their support to the Chinese people.  Machinery workers gather around table, listen to man reading newspaper (SOF) letter from Chinese specialist who was studying in their factory.  It says he will never forget USSR peoples brotherly kindness, woman tells (SOF) that the truth will come out sooner or later.
02:04:02  Tataria, LS oil drilling derrick in woods, workers drilling & placing pipe.  CU workers, shots of drill.
Tractors pull derrick to new site.
02:05:06  LS Moscow's State University, CU French artist Frederick Lounguet - grandson of Karl Marx, paints LS of state university, shot of cars on the road.  CU name plate of Marx - Engels museum, F. Longuet sits at  table w/ museum workers, CU various museum staff.  Marks & Engels personal belongings.  Longuet give his grandfathers photo collection to them, people look at photographs, CU pictures of Marx, his wife, oldest daughter Jenny & son-in-law, daughter Laura, friend Elizabeth Tomanovskaya.  Longuet w/ others at table, ext people in the museum yard, gates.  
02:06:34  Meeting of art conservationists in meeting hall; looking at various restored paintings in the gallery. Group in workshop of restoration specialist, artist Leonid Ilhcin, CU, looking at paintings displayed on table as artist explains the restoration process.
02:07:27  'Abroad'  Birmingham, Alabama, crowd into church, funeral of 4 black girls killed in racial bomb attack on church, coffin out of church, photographers, distraught grieving mother, young boy's carry coffin..
02:08:31  'Basketball USSR - France', Moscow, Soviet & French teams line up opposite each other, applaud, exchange souvenirs, various shots of game, spectators applaud, CU score board France - 45. USSR -71, applause.  The End

221208          00:05:03 - 00:10:22            1963   SD        COL&B/W       

Starry Road  R3 (Continued) & R4 of 6
Valentina Tereshkov dressed in space suit, escorted by other cosmonouts boards the bus, applouse, LS bus on road, Valentina gives her last interview in the bus, high angles of  bus arrival.
00:05:57  16Jun63 Valentina Tereshkova exits bus, walks up the stairs of gantry, waves, other cosmonouts applaud, lift goes up the tower.
00:06:52  Valentina seated in space ship Vostok 6, scientists around table in meeting room w/ 30 min to lift-off on the screen, space ships door closed & fastened.  Valentina inside, prepares for lift off, look in the mirror attached to her suit, 15 min to lift off, Valentina in the space ship, 5 min on screen, Valentina gives last message, 1 min on the screen, poepe in the control room at the panels.
00:07:52  Start! Huge flames & sparks, rocket Vostok 6 lifts off, LS space ship high in air, people w/ binoculars, huge aerials, people at control panels & computers, scientists in meeting room, people in control room, women type received data, scientist at map, look at space ship's location. Aanimation?
00:09:04 People at video receiving centre control panel, Valentina sends her video message for government leaders, CU Brezhnev, Khruschev & Molotov at table listen to Valentna reporting ( SOF) that all machinery of the space ship is working perfectly and she is feeling great.
00:09:36  Khrushchev speaks on phone to Valentina, gives his best wishes & tells how proud he is that she is the first Soviet woman in space, Brezhnev next to the Khrushchev w/ huge smile, VIPs from various angles, CU Valentina in space craft, Krushchev continues his wishes.    

221208          00:17:21 - 00:21:19            1963   SD        COL     

Starry Road  R5 (Continued)
Valentina Tereshkova walks cross the airfield, meets Valery Bykovsky, emotional meeting between both Soviet heroes w/ hug, kiss, surrounded by other Soviet cosmonauts incl. Gagarin & applauding people, people give flowers, Valentina & Valery walk w/ hands around each other, smile.
00:17:43  River Volga from the shore, LS ship on the water, team of soviet cosmonauts & scientists on the celebration cruise, Gagarin behind the helm, V. Tereshkova & V. Bykovsky saw a log, applause, all smile, CU Gagarin at helm.
00:18:07  Tereshkova & Bykovsky on board give thumbs up sign, chats away w/ big smiles on their faces, Beautiful sunset over river.
00:18:20  Shot through plane window, CU pilot, narration by Tereshkova, telling that they left Volga for Moscow on the 22nd of June, CU pilots, plane cabin, Tereshkova & Bykovsky at table, eat cherries, CU Valery looks out window, narration by Tereshkova, tells they both felt very nervous and exited about upcoming meeting, high angle city.
00:18:54  Plane lands, greeted by military orchestra, Int. plane Valery & Valentina check each others looks, ext, stairs w/ red carpet connected to the plane (GOOD).  Valentina tells Valery to keeps his head higher up, smile.  Tereshkova & Bykovsky exit & walk down the red carpet, Valentina says she remembers when she was listening to the radio in a factory as Urij Gagarin was walking down this carpet, high angle cosmonauts on the red carpet.
00:20:20  Cosmonauts walk up to the VIPs on podium, crowds applaud, Valery & Valentina at microphone give their report to Homeland, Communist party & Khrushchev, LS cosmonauts on the podium w/ VIPs incl. Brezhnev
, Podgorny, Mikoyan & others.  Khrushchev hugs & kisses Tereshkova, people cheer, applaud, Khrushchev & Bykovsky hug & kiss.  Both cosmonauts go to their family members, hug, kiss, people applaud & cheer, Khruschev holds up hands together w/ Valentina & Valery, all smile.  

221208          00:21:28 - 00:31:05            1963   SD        COL      Starry Road  R6
Moscow, motorcade thru city, Khrushchev & Tereshkova & Bykovsky in open top car, wave to crowds at roadside, pass tv camera man on platform; motorcade from various angles, high angle over bridge near Kremlin, Red Square filled w/ greeting crowds, LS VIPs on podium.
00:22:25  Speech by Valery Bykovsky (SOF), thanks Soviet government & communist party for giving him the great honor to fly in space.  CU audience, applause, praises - Long live Communist party of USSR! Khrushchev next to the speaker applauds, praises Soviet government & leader Khrushchev. Applause, Khrushchev & Bykovsky hug & kiss, high angle square.
00:23:49  Speech by Valentina Tereshkova (SOF), thanks Lenins Central Commitee of Communist Party & Soviet government for giving her the great opportunity to fly in space, applause.  Thanks Khrushchev for his fatherly love & care towards Soviet cosmonauts, (Khrushchev looks very serious) thanks Moscow's citizens for warm welcome, applause, various shots of the crowds.
00:25:00  Khrushchev's speech (SOF) praises all Soviet Cosmonaut heroes, thanks their parents, CU Bykovsky's parent & Tereshkova's mother, applause, tells that he has no doubt that in near future there will be even more advanced space ships, LS podium, people cheer w/ flags, placards, VIPs incl. Gagarin,Tereshkova, Khruschev, Bykovsky, Brezhnev & others hold up joined hands, people cheer, smile, applaud, CU Soviet cosmonauts all smiling & holding hands up in the air, high angle Red square.
00:27:33  Celebration reception in Kremlin Palace, VIPs incl. Brezhnev, Bykovsky, Khrushchev, Tereskkova, Mikoyan & others walk up the stairs, applaud.  Brezhnev
presents Tereshkova & Bykovsky w/ honors,VIPs applaud, smiling Khrushchev & others.  International Women's Forum greets Valentina Tereshkova at their meeting, various nationality women applaud, cheer in the audience, Valentina on the stage waves w/ neckerchief, smiles & applauds.
00:28:28  Motorcade w/ Valery Bykovsky in flower covered convertible car thru Moscow neighborhood where he was born, huge crowds on the streets cheer, applaud, present Valery w/ traditional Bread & Salt, Young Pioneers wave as Bykovsky puts on their present  of a Pioneer hat, applause, Valery on the podium in front of huge crowd of people.  Sign: Yaroslavl.  Motorcade w/ Valentina Tereshkova in open top car, people crowds cheer, applaud, Valentina on podium in filled stadium.  Tereshkova in various places around home town, greeted by huge crowds, ex work mates.
00:29:35  CU plaque of honor in factory saying:  Here worked First Woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, Valentina shows that she still remembers how to work on textile machinery.
00:29:58  Tereshkova & Bykovsky in the motorcade thru Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, greeted By Castro in Cuba.  Vlentina & Gagarin exit car outside United Nations building, reporters take pictures for a resolution of Space as a Atomic free zone, CU Gomyko, Tereshkova & Gagarin, shake hands w/ ?   The End.

221165          07:09:45 - 07:20:33            1965   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1965  #48  November
07:10:13  Day, Kremlin palace, 1st meeting of Soviet Cinematography delegations.  Standing applause, VIPs on stage w/ Brezhnev.  Opening speech (MOS) by Professor Lev Kuleshov, public applaud.
07:10:47  Greetings from Central committee by party's secretary Demichev (MOS).  Cinematography chairman on podium.  Close shots of audience.
07:11:25  Delegates in entrance hall.  Speech on camera by producer Sergei Geraseman(?), others speak on camera incl. writer Chirigis Aytmatov(?), actress Natalia Fathejeva (all SOF).
07:12:30  2nd part of meeting, shot of audience, on stage delegation of best actors, artist and popular movie stars.  Actor in soldier uniform addresses public (SOF).  All applaud.
07:13:54  Soviet Union house meeting in honor of Mikhail's Kalinin's 90th birthday.  Big portrait of Kalinin. Communist party veterans on stage.  On podium USSR Highest Court's chairman Gorkin.
07:14:28  Kalinin's village in snow.  His home opened as museum.  Flashback w/ various shots of Kalinin makes speech (MOS), walks on podium w/ Stalin & other VIPs, presents woman w/ prize.
07:15:04  Kalinin's speech (SOF), calls himself as not just Communist Party's member but as it's son too.
07:15:22  Kremlin, cooperative agreement signed w/ Finland by Finland's Foreign Minister Karje Lainen(?) & USSR trading minister Potolechev(?).  All present applaud, both ministers shake hands.
07:15:52  Urals district.  Oil industry, refinery, factory.  Workers in control room, man at desk check papers, woman shows around new worker, man at telephone.  CU gages.  Train w/ tank cars of petroleum.  Man puts soviet flag high up on refinery tower.  Refinery at night, smoke or steam from chimneys.
07:16:45  Men work w/ heavy machinery in mine, drilling coal.  Workers out of tunnel w/ flashlights & head lamps.
07:17:15  Meeting hall, public applaud, best miners on stage w/ big Lenin's Statue, presented w/ prizes.
07:17:35  Moscow, House of Foreign Country Friendship.  Soviet photographer's exhibition.  People look around gallery, display w/ best photographers prizes, diplomas.  Shots of various photographs w/ people of all ages in all sorts of situations.
07:18:46  Outside Moscow, woodland in snow & children ski down hill, group of boys hold together in line w/ stick, close up of little girl, woman ski w/ small dog on lead, field w/ many skiers.
07:19:15  People ice-skating, couple skate holding hands - man looks straight at camera, little girls hand in hand, dance on skates, girl skates, falls down.  Man w/ kids slides down the hill on sleds, falls & people laugh, boy covered in snow.
07:19:43  Dominican Republic/ Santa Domingo, protesters run thru streets in demonstration against US troop arrival.  Military car w/ soldiers, arrest guy, drive away.  Huge crowds shout w/ posters in hands.   

 

604278          00:05:07 - 00:11:35            1966               COL     

Brezhnev at Red Square Parade 1966
(viewing notes say May Day but shots are military ) Colour
Good scenes military parade including Kosygin, Gromyko and Podgorny onbalcony of Lenins mausoleum

 

LN 400-241  07:32:11 - 07:42:15            1968 c            SD        COL&B/W       

Fulfilling Lenin's Behests  [Reel 5 of 5]
Moscow Central Documentary Film Studios  [English narration]
INT meeting of foreign scientists discussing Soviet nuclear power programme - miniature flags inc. Britain & USSR visible on table - man points to diagram on wall & scientists stand around scale model of plant.  B/W stills montage: Lenin w/ HG Wells; atomic & hydropower plants; scientists & workers; VO 'Soviet people say 'Let the atom be a worker and not a soldier''.
07:33:45  Portraits depicting Lenins quest for peace.  Scenic shots of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] in Summer - street scenes showing pedestrians, tourists, women in colourful print dresses; cutaways to b/w stills of WWII bombardment of city & devastation.  WWII stockshots of battleships firing, fighter planes in flight, tanks advancing across icy plains; victory celebrations in Leningrad [staged?].
07:37:11  Biskayorovska Cemetery where 632,000 defenders of city buried - Eternal Flame - visitors w/ flowers walk through - statues & murals - CUs people reading inscription on memorial wall, man crying.  Leningrad street scenes & daily life.  INT workers in factory.
07:40:06  High shots across parade in Red Square - huge crowds w/ many Soviet flags, red banners & Lenin portraits - recording of Lenin speech played - father carrying little girl dressed in red on shoulders - Brezhnev et al waving from top of mausoleum.  End titles.

221232          22:22:40 - 22:32:13            1969   SD        COL&B/W       

Glory To The Heroes of the Cosmos  Reel 1 of 2
4-motor USSR commercial jet accompanied by jet fighters seen air to air; flag waving crowd w/ band waiting Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Alexsei Yeliseyev & Boris Volynov off plane & march down red carpet & stand in front of VIPs w/ Brezhnev.  Shatalov reports (SOF) completion of Soyuz 4 space flight which had first docking & exchange of astronauts between two space ships. He says they feel excellent & are ready to complete the next task for their homeland.
22:24:33  Soyuz 5 Captain Volynov reports (SOF).  VIPs congratulate cosmonauts, shake hands, kiss, kids    give flowers, cosmonauts walk past cheering crowds.  CU people wrapped in warm scarfs, hats, smile, cheer.
22:26:37  B/W Shots of Soyuz 4 launching 15Jan69, video of cosmonauts in space ship, docking, space walk.
22:28:19  Cosmonauts in open car motorcade passing cheering, flag waving crowds lining road road sides.  POV past crowds en route to Kremlin.
22:29:31  Int. CU applauding audience, cosmonauts standing on stage receiving flowers from children; VIPs w/ Brezhnev behind.  Grishin on the microphone (MOS)
22:30:28  Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov speech (SOF), speaks of space ships Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 successful mission accomplishments & thanks government & nation for warm welcome back to land, intercut shots of audience,hall, LS speaker, applause.
22:31:40  Cosmonaut Boris Volynov speech (SOF) about excellent condition of space ship Soyuz 5, tells of his experience in manually piloting the craft, applause.

LN 400-229  22:32:22 - 22:38:37            1969   SD        COL     

Glory To The Heroes of the Cosmos  Reel 2 of 2
Stage w/ big Lenin portrait behind, speech by cosmonaut Yevgeny Khrunov (SOF) about his & Alexsei Yeliseyev's experience transfering from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, applause.
20:33:20  Speech by Alexsei Yeliseyev (SOF) about great opportunity to be on two space ships in one flight & taking part in lunar orbits docking, tells that all machinery and programs on the space ships were working as planned, thanks government for great support, applause.
22:34:00  Standing applause as Brezhnev walks to podium.  Brezhnev's speech (SOF) tells how proud all Soviet Union is of their cosmonaut heroes, applause, high angle audience, Brezhnev's speech from various angles.
22:36:03  Cosmonauts walk to the front & stand next to Podgorny on the podium, Podgorny speaks (SOF) in name of Soviet government & all Soviet Union in congratulating cosmonauts.  CU Podgorny announces that cosmonauts have deserved the Highest Prize of Homeland.
22:36:48  Podgorny presents cosmonauts w/ medals, pins them to their jackets, shakes hands, kisses, audience cheers & applauds, various shots of applauding cosmonauts & applauding audience, VIPs on the stage w/ Podgorny & Brezhnev,
22:38:27  CU monument w/ rocket on top pointed skyward.  The End

LN 400-220  12:19:51 - 12:30:32            1970   SD        B/W   

USSR  1966-1970  
31Dec70  Busy street at night, buildings decorated w/ New Year lights, moon in the sky, city squares in snow.  Clock tower shows 10 min. to midnight.  On central TV & radio Brezhnev
gives his New Years speech (SOF).
12:21:11  Night scenes of city, traffic on road.  Map of USSR w/ 108 newly built cities marked w/ shiny dots. Shots of various new cities, people on street, new apartment blocks, high rise apartment building site w/ tall cranes, women builders.
12:21:54  Kids on sleds, skis slide down little hill.  Family w/ skis on their shoulders. Children play in outdoor swimming pool.  High angle of big swimming pool.  Electric power lines. Man walks high up on power line. Shots of constructions over lake.  Hydro-electric station building site (dam).  Man welds, truck load of big stones into water.  High angle dam construction.  People working on various constructions.  Inside factory.  Various shots of dam, spillway.
12:23:21  Steel industry.  Workers in steel production factory.  Big machinery, sparks of melted steel, various shots in & outside of  factory.  High angle of flaming steel, men at control panel, machinery, steel poured in to big container. men in the dark next to the flames, one smokes.
12:24:21  Siberia,  Oil industry.  Constructions, helicopter lands, camels at construction site.  Man in high crane, lift goes up.  High angle of woodland covered in snow.  Man looks up in the sky, helicopter flies over w/ construction materials delivering by air.  Oil lines built.  Worker in huge oil refinery.
12:25:41  Chemical industry.  Women work in synthetic production factory, machinery makes synthetic thread bobbins, various shots of women at work.
12:26:03  People in well-stocked shoe store.  Women in fabric store, look at garment.  Grain industry.  Combines in the field, grain poured in huge heaps, man moves it w/ spade.  Aerial of combines in huge field.  Cotton harvest.  Tractors collect plants, men in back of truck move cotton.  Various tractors in garage, in exhibition, moved by crane.   New tractors by dock or railroad; train thru forest w/ long load of new tractors.
12:27:17  High angle of farm. Cattle herd, woman strokes cow.  Lorry drives thru dairy farm, pours food.   Milk poured in big container, various machinery.  Milk bottled.  Village house, shots inside rooms, television in corner.  High angle street w/ newly build houses.  Education.  Medical(?) students at lecture. Students study in library, book about Lenin.  Girl w/ face protective mask.  Guys in laboratory.  High angle of factory, various machinery.
12:28:33  People look at airplane. Aircraft in the sky. Rocket launched.  1st automatic Soviet space ship lands in cosmos on moon.  High angle of city at night, hoses, streets squares  Brezhnev
's speech on TV (SOF, continued). Clock tower rings midnight.  Man welds high up in construction. Flask back of workers in various industries- in factory, on field, people applaud in tractor exhibition, ship goes of shore, men up in power lines, steel factory. High angle of big smoke coming out of ail factory.             Sell one minute at per reel rate.  
  

LN 400-239  03:17:52 - 03:27:25            1970?            SD        B/W   

Stories About Communists (1970?)
Revolution Square Station w/ retired worker who worked on station.  CU of statue of worker, cut to newsreel footage of actual building of subway w/ men working in tunnels, shoveling, building cribbing, pouring concrete.  Drilling.
03:19:18  Finishing concrete, polishing walls & signs.  Men into tunnel.  Woman tightening bolts on forms.
03:19:55  Entering subway or parliament?  Woman who worked on building it talks about it.  Statue of woman in subway.  Statue of man in subway.
03:21:18  She talks more about man who had lost both hands in WWII but wanted to continue working on the subway.  She took responsibility for the man so that he could work on with his previous group.  More shots of working drilling and excavating more recently.  View of subway trains and POV from engine into station.  Cas passing.  Several stations.  Train above ground w/ Moscow univeristy behind.  Man receiving awards.
03:23:33  Winter and pedestrians walking in front of apartment blocks; cars and vans behind. 
03:23:58  Clock tower, lines to Lenin's Tomb.  CU of people moving in line in summer time.  High angle of Red Square.  Interior of Communist Party meeting in very large hall.  Brezhnev
at microphone speaking (SOF w/ English voice-over).  1970 Party Conference per banner.  Standing ovation.  Applause.
03:26:55  Red Square parade filling square, banners, balloons.  Good Lenin banner.  The End.

LN 400-205  09:11:55 - 09:22:33            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1971 #29  August
09:12:18  Great Commonwealth. 25th session of international help in Bucharest.  Big government building, leaders of the USSR member states seated in conference room, flags, chairman Alexsei Kosygin.  Shots of representatives listen w/ headphones, camera man in background.
09:13:21  1st Session of Supreme Council meets in Kremlin, leaders of Communist party & Soviet govt. applauding in opening of session.  Brezhnev making speech - putting forward as candidate for soviet minister chairman position deputy Mikhail Solomencov.  Everybody approves nomination.
09:14:31 Deputy and party's central commitee secretary Andrei Kirilenko at podium.  (09:14:43) Mikhail Eons on podium; 09:14:52 Mikhail Solomencov confirms new members of Russian federation, vote & applauding.
09:15:15  7th Moscow International Film Festival.  USSR chairman Romanov welcomes members & guests    Producers & filmmakers from Italy, Japan, USSR, France, Vietnam given prizes.  Applause.
09:17:04  Summer semester for Uzovskys working youth.  Students on railroad platform leaving to help build the country.  Friends sing, play guitar & accordion, others dance.  Goodbyes to family & friends, hold hands through train windows, carriages slowly moving. People waving.  (09:17:44) One destination is Sherbokov (?)   Collective farm in name of Sherbokov(?); road signs.  Ukrainian & Polish students smiling & building wooden house.  Others lay bricks.   Sign with street name put on finished brick wall; group picture.
09:18:31  Countryside.  Lakes w/ water flowers.  Flowery meadow, tractors mowing grass for silage; 4 farmer brothers Vorobjovi in colorful shirts check the mower then all of them back to work.  Group gathering hay.   Machinery chopping & stacks of bagged hay outside the barn.  Series of large haystacks.
09:19:45  Khazahstan.  High angle shots of desert like field, truck driving through.  Rocky coast of Mongoshlak(?) island, new city of Shefcenko(?).  Streets with few cars & buses, people walk past.  World's largest water filtering plant operating on nuclear energy to satisfy demand for drinking water in the fast growing city; control room w/ technicians & chief who's been awarded Lenin's Prize.
09:20:48  People drink fresh filtered water from automatic machines on streets.  Kids in swimming pool.
09:20:58  5th Athletic Olympiad between all USSR countries, athletes march w/ flags in stadium; 18  new worldwide & 19 European records set in different categories.  Montage of winners - men sprint, swimming, gymnastics, boxing, cycling, weights.  Award ceremony in stadium filled with competitors & fans. Winners carry big prizes together with their teammates march around the stadium waving to the crowds.  Large TV camera seen.  Applause

LN 400-205  09:43:46 - 09:53:43            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1971 #26  July
5th meeting, USSR writers in Kremlin palace.   Multinational representatives of soviet literature standing & applauding; in front Brezhnev & leaders of Communist party and soviet government, Lenin's statue behind.   Soviet writer Nikolay Tihonov at podium.  Speakers include Georgia Markov, Sergey Mihalkov,Vasilij Kazochenko from various republics, w/ shots of people listening.  Public stands & applauding.
09:46:17  'In Friendly Atmosphere'  Ext. Kremlin palace.  Int. Soviet chairman Nikolai Podgornij (Podgorny) welcomes Italy's Foreign Minister Aldo Moro; shake hands.  CUs  Meeting room, delegates at long table. Italian minister meets Kosygin, Gromyko &  other Government leaders; another meeting.
09:47:30  Ulan Bator, Mongolia city streets, monument.  CUs Happy people walking.   (09:47:49) Moscow  officials celebrate 50th anniversary of Mongolian People's Revolution.  VIPs & Mongolian guests.  Jagotkov (?) at podium.  Flowers presented by Pioneers; applause.  VIPs at podium speak (MOS).  Names of honor.
09:49:07  'Answering Your Letters'  Gas flame above oil or gas refinery; site of first natural gas (?) storage tank.  Shots of workers constructing & welding on steel frame; tighten guide wheels.  General shots.
09:50:05  Uzbekistan, wheat combines, various shots.  CUs drivers.   Piling grain outside the storage sheds, some more poured from combines.
09:50:40  China production factory.  Machinery & processes making plates, bowls, cups; factory workers decorating dishes with hand painting. Displays with all kinds of beautiful china.
09:51:32  USSR Armenian Doctor of Science in agriculture Anaida Ananen in greenhouse showing different   tomatoes developed by her.  Cutting in half huge tomatoes; together with others checking the outside field harvest.  High angle of hothouses. She is greeted with flowers & given honor of Social Labor Hero.
09:52:24  Sport, Representatives from 60 countries take part in  cycling competition, 21 rounds around Moscow, ca.100 km. Streets full of supporters.  Road race through citys streets. POV & from various points. Winner - soviet cyclist Valerij Ljevechok(?) presented with winners cup.
           

LN 400-206  11:45:04 - 11:55:37            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1971 #08  February
50th Anniversary of USSR State Planning Committee(SPC).  Shot of original decree.  Meeting room.  Woman on chair w/ rollers & computers w/ punch cards working in one of governments scientific research institutes, produce computer print-out Five Year Plan documents to be delivered to all soviet councils.
11:46:12  Official 50th Anniversary celebration in Kremlin palace.  Communist partys & USSR Gov. leaders w/ Brezhnev & others.  Promoslov at podium.  Speeches BY - Suslov, Baybokov (MOS).  Applause.
11:47:42  Red Square, delegations from  USSR SPC put large wreath at Lenin's tomb.
11:48:08  Big refinery, working with new inventions of sulphuric acids producing.  CU of workers at control panels, tanks, filling railroad cars and cooling towers.
11:49:03  Bucharest, Romania.  Citys streets, traffic.  Meeting of the foreign ministers of the Warsaw Agreement (Warsaw Pact Nations) countries.  CU of various ministers seen at tables w/ Mikoyan.
11:49:55  Busy street with cars driving past.  50th anniversary of newspaper 'TRUD'. Opening speech by Nikolai Podgornij (Podgorny) congratulates newspaper w/ homelands highest reward,  Public rises to applaud.  Lenin's order put on to newspapers flag.
11:50:51  53 years of Soviet army & fleet.  Radar antenna & military in control room.  Solders handling  rockets & raising.  Navy submarines & ships at sea.  Parachute jumpers out of large planes; rockets on runway in front of fighter jets.  Young soldiers in classroom.  Class w/ Army equipment.  Soldiers run to tanks in forest in winter snow & climb inside.  Drive through fields of powdery snow (good) .
11:52:14  Factory workers w/ Leningrad's scientists invent new shiny non - rusting steel (chrome?).  Men in factory & manufacturing machinery
11:53:09  United Arab Republic traditional dance group performing for ten years, now performs in Moscow. Women in dressing room dress in traditional dresses.  Arab men dancing on stage joined by women to perform popular dance - El Debka.  Public applaud.
11:54:08  Sport.  Paris,France  International weightlifting competition, USSR sportsmen achieve 6 worldwide records. Taking part is the strongest man on earth - Vasiliy Aleksejev,. GOOD SHOTS. 

 

LN 400-208  13:01:01 - 13:11:36            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1971 #19  May
Tbilisi, Georgia.  High angle city view.  50th anniversary of Soviet Power & Georgian communist party. Building decorated with banners; city's concert hall, large celebration meeting of Communist party & Soviet Government leaders w/ Brezhnev
& soviet delegations.  Opening speeches (MOS) by Party 1st Secretary Mzhivanadze(?) & Brezhnev.  Georgia presented w/ award of October revolution.
13:02:57  50th Anniversary parade on city's streets, crowds walk past party leaders on podium. children on bicycles, women dressed in white dresses.  Pigeons let in air. Shot of Lenin's statue.
13:03:33  Kremlin palace  Meeting of communist leaders incl. Brezhnev
,  Podgornij (Podgorny), Kosygin & GDR sociaistl party delegates w/ Erich Honecker, & Chairman Will Shtopo(?)
13:04:34  Government leaders w/ Brezhnev, Kosygin & aviation minister at USSR air show inspect Tupolev TU-144 supersonic planes & helicopters.  Transport plane IL-76.  Giant helicopter. 
13:06:43  Kremlin palace.  Kosygin meets Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.  Photographers take pictures.  Brezhnev meets Trudeau, has small meeting.  Podgornij in meeting with Trudeau.  Kosygin & Trudeau sign protocol of Soviet-Canadian consultations, other delegates applaud.
13:09:20  Moscow.  in Soviet House  large meeting of International Red cross & Red Crescent . Opening speech by Zaharov (MOD). Public applaud
13:10:09  19May71 USSR Pioneer birthday.  Pioneers parade in Red Square. Lay wreaths outside Lenins Tomb.  Kuprejev's speech.  Kids march past.  (around 23 million youngsters in Pioneer organization)                

 

221172          20:11:06 - 20:21:47            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971 #11 March
' 1st Revolution of Proletariat'.  Paris 100 yrs. ago, bridge over river Seine, small barge on water, shots of various paintings w/ siege in time of Paris Commune, paintings of 72 dat fights.
20:12:11  Commune's protectors Memorial wall. People w/ posters march & demonstrate to pay their respect.
20:12:26  Moscow, Paris Commune's 100 yrs. anniversary meeting, high angle audience applaud in big hall, Soviet government & Communist party leaders on the stage.  CU VIPs w/ Brezhnev, Kosygin & Suslov, French Communist party delegates, high angle audience.
20:12:55  Communist Party's Secretary Ponomarjev on the podium, high angle meeting hall, stage.
20:13:15  Delegate of French Communist party on podium, various shots of audience applauding, VIPs on  stage, CU audience in ornate hall.
20:13:42  Siberia, Samatlor, winter nature scenes, tank drives through snowy woodland, oil drilling construction, CU workers, men work w/ drilling machinery, various shots of working, high angle construction.
20:14:56  Leningrad, heavy metallurgy factory, big machinery, man climbs stairs, operates cutting machine, young man makes notes, shots of various workers, CU team leader talking w/ workers.
20:16:09  'Capital's Communist Conference'.  High angle house of unions, people gathering for the 20th meeting of Capital's Communists under ornate chandeliers.  High angle meeting hall, Soviet government leaders on the stage w/ Brezhnev & Kosygin, high angle audience.  On the podium party's secretary Grishin, applause, high angle audience.
20:17:23  Kremlin, Kosygin meets Vice Prime Minister of Qatar(?) Aziza Sitki, delegates debate about cooperation between Soviet Union and United Arab Republic, CU Kosygin & A. Sitki.
20:18:06  Couple on cross-country skis through snowy woodland, CU man takes 8mm movies of woman w/ child skiing, high angle collective farm, men on horses lead cattle herd.  Main veterinarian office, people at the table, technician looks at young cattle on farm, gives advice to farmers, studies in the library.
20:19:13  Pupils in science or physics class, weigh things on small scales, girls pour liquids into glass containers.  Cooking school, pupils in white coats & chef hats in big classroom, learn to make pancakes, laugh, cut vegetables, make soups, shot of nicely decorated salad bowls.  Shot of big restaurant, students in kitchen, head chef & students taste the soup.
20:20:35  'Art'.  Days of Paris Commune's 100th anniversary, Moscow, stage of Bolshoi theater, scenes from Assafiev's ballet 'The Flames of Paris', dancers on stage & dance toward public w/ guns in hand, applause.

221172          20:32:33 - 20:43:00           1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971 #39 October
'Work and Study in name of Lenin'.  Kremlin palace, All Union student meeting, applauding audience, government leaders on the stage w/ Brezhnev, CU audience, speaker on podium, next to Brezhnev
.
20:33:33  Brezhnev
to podium, applause, CU students listening, some w/ earpieces.  Fragment of Brezhnev's speech (SOF), standing applause, high angle audience.
20:35:28  'Meetings in Kremlin'.  Podgorny meets Finland's president Kekkonen, shake hands, delegations  enter meeting room , VIPs w/ Podgorny & Gromyko sit at round table.
20:36:06  Kremlin, Kosygin meets US State Govenor's delegation w/ Missouri State Governor Hernies, delegation talks at table.
20:36:40  In honor of Great October'.  Heavy machinery production factory, CU men work w/ at lathe turning complicated machinery, high angle factory floor.
20:37:42  Soviet - French cooperation is getting stronger'.  Institute of high energy physics, high angle institute hall, workers install new French hydrogen camera Mirabel, CU men do last wiring, sign document that the camera is ready for use.  French and Soviet scientist delegation, French & soviet ministers cut the ribbon, shake hands, shots of people inside institute, look at new machinery.
20:38:47  Urals, large gold (?) dredge on river, workers inside the dredge, high angle big machinery, man weighs found gold on small scale, various shots of dredge.
20:39:22  Ukraine, high angle farm land, sugar beet harvest, tractors collect beets, CU automatic machinery, CU tractor driver and man in truck.
20:39:55  Tajikistan, large field, grape harvest, cut grapes w/ scissors, CU workers, women carry baskets of grapes.  Krim, grape harvest, new invention combine used, people use pipes that suck in the grapes, CU women workers.
20:40:44  Oceanography, big ship in the sea w/ ice floating in the water, CU scientific expeditions leader, shots of various machinery, men at the control panel, shot of the ship from distance.
20:41:20  Moscow, professional driving competition, drivers compete in high speed driving around obstacles, petrol saving in long distance drive - car drives through woodland, CU driver w/ helmet, shots of fast rally racing, winner congratulated by other drivers.
20:41:57  USSR national clown artist Mikhail Rumjancev(?), gets ready in dressing room, small dog sits next to him & barks.  Mikhail dressed in clown's costume, looks through stage curtains, public laughs, performs  trick w/ bottle, people laugh, applaud, kids run out & give flowers, high angle audience.
           

221172          20:43:23 - 20:50:35            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971 #40 October  Pt. 1 of 2
Big visit.  Paris, Eiffel tower, very high angle of city, airport, plane runway, French President George Pompidou w/ wife walk towards plane.  Brezhnev
& wife exits plane, smiles, shake hands w/ Pompidou and other French delegates.  Brezhnev & Pompidou walk past band & military troop honor guard, enter car, high angle motorcade on the road, big welcoming poster roadside, high angle guard of honor.  Brezhnev & Pompidou arrive at Elysee Palace in open top car; enter Elysee palace hall, stand at microphones, various angles of Brezhnev, audience, shot of French & Soviet leaders wives.  French president & Brezhnev sit on the chairs & talk.
20:45:49  'Plans to Integrate'.  Czechoslovakia, high angle city, sugar factory build by Poland, big machinery, workers cover natural gas pipeline w/ protective cover, shot of long pipe line thru field.
20:46:25  GDR, Soviet-German cement factory, construction, grinding machinery, technicians work on construction plans at the table.
20:46:41  Dairy bottling plant, milk poured in bottles w/ automatic machinery.  Very high angle of construction site, various machinery, man welds.
20:47:01  'School of ore diggers'.  Kazakhstan, high angle buildings, workers walk down the stairs, students in class room, workers improve their knowledge, CU students, teams leader, Lenin's prize winner.  Workers in underground coal mine working w/ various automatic machinery, CU workers, full carriages of coal on the underground rail line.
20:48:15  25th anniversary of WWII war crimes trial, shots of the trial, people in court room.  Fascist planes drop bombs, shots of dead bodies incl., young kids.
20:48:48  Vietnam, planes in sky, bomb explosions, woman cries, people covered in blood, wounded kids, 20:49:02  Israel & Palestine, destroyed buildings, soldiers on tanks.
20:49:07  Moscow, Nurnberg war trials' 25th anniversary meeting, shots of audience, various speakers on  podium, incl. Nurnberg trials' prosecution assistant Smirnov, Vietnam court's chairman, CU various speakers, shots of audience.
20:49:53  Moscow, exhibition of industrial clothing, shots of clothes for various specialty workers, high angle people look around exhibition hall, people in all union meeting, discuss future protective clothing providing for all workers, applause. 
20:50:35  continued  

 

LN 400-228  05:21:45 - 50:32:26            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971 #46 December
Warsaw, 6th Meeting of Polish Communists, high angle large meeting hall, big flag w/ Lenin's portrait; on the podium Polish Party leader Edward Gierek, shots of audience, listen w/ earpieces, applaud.  Brezhnev
's speech (SOF), w/ glasses, audience applause, Brezhnev salutes World Peace, Communism, applause, CU Brezhnev w/ other VIPs applaud, high angle audience.
05:24:23  'Friendship and collaboration'  LS Kremlin.  Podgorny meets President of Yemen Arab Republic Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, shake hands, photographer take pictures, delegates sit at meeting table, CU smiling Podgorny & President al-Iryani w/ sunglasses, meeting delegates. 
05:25:08  Kremlin.  Podgorny meets Chilean delegation w/ minister Umberto Morales, shake hands, sit at table.  Podgorny w/ cigarette in hand, CU delegates, photographers take pictures.
05:25:38  'Great movement',  winter, high angle people in the field near WWII war monument, 30th anniversary of great victory at the outskirts of Moscow, people crowds, men hold flags, CU monument, engraved names and portraits of victims,high angle battle field.  Archival footage of defense of Moscow battle, troops dressed in white on the tanks, various shots of tanks, war planes dropping bombs, field broken cars in the snow.  WWII veterans walk thru snowy field of  battle, greet each other in the meeting room, hug.
Veterans meeting in Soviet House of Unions.  Honor Guard of soldiers march thru hall w/ flags.  CU veterans, various speakers on podium incl. veteran general Batov, General Lilushenko..
05:27:56  Prague, high angle city bridges over river, President of Czechoslovakia Ludvik Svoboda meets delegation of Soviet scientists & specialists, shake hands, CU USSR Deputy Chairman Kirilin thanks   Svoboda for warm welcome, delegation talks around the table.  CU president Svoboda.
05:28:46  Kamchatka, CU sunrise, winter, snow tractor car past, teacher Provoverova on way to work walks thru snow storm.  Provoverova in the front of classroom w/ pupils, teacher talking to children around her.
05:29:44  Turkmenistan, Karakum desert, camels thru desert, high power line construction, researchers walk  on desert sand dune, surveying.  Institution of Desert Research, scientists doing research projects produce sand fixating liquids.  In desert men water sand under power line construction w/ special liquid to protect it from strong winds, men in corn field w/ plants over their head.
05:31:10  Tokyo, night, people w/ placards in protest meeting, ext Diet building, int. high angle meeting hall, leading liberal partys speaker on the podium speaks about agreeing on US troop staying in Okinawa, opposition party's start fighting, high angle distractions in parliament hall, delegates fight.  Violent demonstrations on city streets, big protest crowds clash w/ police, riot, people listen to speaker at demonstration; various shots of protesters thru city streets.  The End

221165          07:00:09 - 07:09:35            1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971  #42  November  
Night  Kremlin, meeting for 54th anniversary of October Revolution. Standing applause.  Government leaders on stage w/ Brezhnev, Gromyko, Kosygin.  Several women present.  Speech by Politburo member Grishin (SOF).  Close ups of audience.  Standing applause.
07:02:21  'Achievements Towards The Revolution'  Various industries.  Ext & int. of chemical factories & people work w/ automated machinery.  Car production assembly line.  Close shots of workers.  Big meeting of factory workers, applause, new car w/ sign - 'our gift to home land'
07:03:19  Workers in steel mill.  Metallurgy factory, large furnaces & machinery, sparks from pouring steel into containers.
07:03:45  Wipe to large helicopter in the air.  Workers build oil pipeline, big pipe goes into water & across the lake or river.
07:04:03  Agriculture combine factory, men putting parts on combine, one behind wheel.  Completed combine driven on to street.
07:04:27  'Red Square 7th of November' 1971  October anniversary parade on Red Square.  Snowing, military troops march past VIPs w/ Brezhnev on podium.  Tank & trucks thru Square, troops in back of trucks, towing rockets.  Huge rockets pulled behind lorries.  Moscow's youth, athletes w/ flags take part in parade, big banners on floats.  Children wave flags, run to give flowers to VIPs, people cheer.  High angle of demonstration.  CUs of marching people in snow w/ huge smiles on faces, waving, cheering.  Big poster w/ lights, portrait of Lenin. Brezhnew & other VIPs wave, smile.  High angle square.
07:08:09  Night scenes of city's streets decorated w/ lights, lights w/ stars across the road, various buildings w/ light decorations.  Moving light sign of worker hammering at anvil.
07:08:43  Kremlin, anniversary celebration concert w/ big military & civilian chorus singing anthem (?) on stage.
Very good photography and excellent quality print. 
                                                                           
221165          07:20:42 - -07:29:50         1971   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1971  #41  November
I'n name of World and Friendship'.  Paris, Eiffel Tower, high angle of city.  Inside Versailes Palace, Brezhnev & French President George Pompidou enter big hall, sit at table & sign cooperation agreement between Soviet Union & France, shake hands, officials applaud, CU of smiling Brezhnev.
07:22:05  Brezhnev on official visit in East Berlin.  High angle city view.  Brezhnev greeted by Erich Honecker & walk thru huge crowds cheering w/ posters of Brezhnev & Honecker.  Motorcade accompanied by police motorcycles, Brezhnev
waves from car window.
07:22:26  Delegates enter long meeting hall incl. Brezhnev, Gromyko & Honecker, talk, smile, cameraman behind Brezhnev
.  Sitting around long table.
07:23:07  October, Canada city street.  Kosygin on official visit, w/ Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau shake hands & both sign Soviet - Canadian cooperation agreement.
07:23:56  Cuba, crowds wave flags, Kosygin on official visit to Havana greeted by Castro, enter meeting hall.  Kosygin & Castro in car past cheering workers crowd.  Castro & Kosygin make speech (MOS) in front of big crowd of workers, all wear hard hats, all applaud.
07:24:56  Angela Davis speaks at microphone (MOS), protests on street w/ banner on her shoulder. Shot of Angela in court, in handcuffs escorted in to courtroom.  Moscow, Soviet Union House Meeting of Angela Davis supporters.  People w/ posters, all applaud, cheer.  Angela's sister on stage, clap hands & cheer.  Various USSR youth representatives on podium. Speech by Fania Davis (MOS), public cheer, applaud.
07:26:15  Central House of Soviet military, 3rd All Nation War Veteran's meeting, people up stairs, talk in entrance hall, CUs of veterans in uniforms.   Communist Party Secretary Ponomarjov on podium,public applaud.  Army General Batov on podium, standing applause.
07:27:20  Daneck region, heavy machinery factory, welding, big sparks.  People work in newly opened homeware department, man makes big spoons, women pack production in boxes, various machinery used, women pack sieves.  Girl between big piles of kettles.
07:28:02  Uzbekistan, workers thru gates of citrus greenhouse on collective farm.  High angle of hot houses.  Man waters lemon plants, cuts open lemon, weighs fruit.  Lots of letters on table, man writes.  Checks plant roots w/ his 2 sons, walks thru large greenhouse.
07:29:09  Moscow, Kabardina-Bulgaria Republic's 50th anniversary concert.  Dance group on stage performs fast traditional dance to applause.

LN 400-205  09:01:02 - 09:11:45            1972   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1972 #17  May
Moscow in May  High angle Red Square May Day demonstration.  Huge crowds welcoming & cheering party and government leaders incl. - Brezhnev, Kosygin & ??
09:01:57 Nikolai Podgornijs (Podgorny) speech.  Applauding, cheering. Parade with big posters of Lenin & others.  Elaborate float, banners, signs.
09:02:57 Young Leninci marching in 50 years celebration of Pioneers organization.  
09:03:10 Man recording with 8mm movie camera. Children running to present leaders with flowers.  Overhead and street level shots of workers waving & cheerig.  Vietnam solidarity anti-imperialist posters.
09:04:40 Second year in five year term segment.  Shots of huge mining  shovels & equipment; digging open pit mine, conveyor belt removing.  Seen from crane cab. 
09:05:57  Dairy production factory in Latvian city Valmiera.  Milk pasteurized; bottled. Tanks of cream. New practikants learning the trade.  Packing ?  in boxes. Storage room full of cheese blocks.
09:06:55 Turkmeniya (Turkmenistan) Spring. Sheep, blossoms, planting.  Covering tomato & cabbage plants  w/ plastic in fields to protect from cold. Kolhoz 'Moscow' preparing  soil  for sowing.
09:07:52 Prizewinners of Lenin's bonuses:  Prize in music - for author of classical opera 'Kola Brunjon' Dmitrij Kabalevsky, conducting.  (09:08:13) Prize In Architecture for team of creators of Lenin's memorial in Vuljanovske.  Building from outside, inside, high angle of it.  (09:08:26)  Sculptor Nicolav Tomsky working on  Lenin's sculpture. Unveiling outdoors, large crowd.
09:08:48  Kremlin ceremony, prizes & bonuses for winners: peasant Nikolay Tikonov; writer Ivan Melush; Elderly author (Marietta Shigian?) bonus for theatrology in Lenin's honor, applause.  Soviet conductor Evgenij Svetlanov.  Producer of films about liberation, Urij Ozerev; writer Agnia Bordo for children's poetry. CUs.   09:09:57  Sport.  Central  Leninsky Stadium, traditional festive opening of summer's sport season athletes marching w/ flags, big USSR flag.  09:10:14 Traditional relay race for prize of newspaper 'Vechernaja Moskva'.  Runners from Spartak, Armesnk(?) and Dynamo run thru streets, people watch & cheer.  Dynamo wins.  (09:11:25) Presented with prize - luxury jewel chest, which they've already won 20 times. 

LN 400-208  13:11:48 - 13:21:49            1972   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1972 #16  April
Kremlin palace, 102nd Anniversary of Lenin's birthday.  Communist & soviet government leaders w/ Brezhnev
, Kosygin & others on stage.  Kulakov's speech.  Standing applause.
13:14:20  Moscow, Brezhnev
meets Czechoslovakian Democratic Republic delegation.  Kissing on lips with  Czechoslovakian chairman.  Friendly meeting Brezhnev laughs. Top shots of Kremlin palace from outside.  Podgornij ( smoking ) (Podgorny) in meeting w/ Czechoslovakian delegation.
13:15:29  Dagistan canyon w/ village on top; building site of dam & hydroelectrical power station in mountains by workers of 40 nationalities.  Men in cranes very high up, pour concrete & place reinforcing material. High angle shot of construction.
13:16:54  Moscow's Education Institute in name of Lenin, protest meeting against American bombs  in Indochina, protesters give warm welcome to Vietnamese guests.  Anti-American speeches by teachers, students & guests, all applaud. (all MOS)
13:17:58  Kazakhstan.  Men inspect farm equipment.  Flowers bloom, planting  w/ many tractors.
13:18:46  Kazin (?) village, cold winter day. 34th reindeer racing Olympiad.  People dressed in very big coats,scarfs watch the race w/ sleds.  Another race on reindeer skins.  Winners greeted.  POV.
13:19:34  Man exploring the deepest Siberian cave - Targashinskaja(?) deep inside the  dark cave found underground lake.  Explorers have dinner in candle light in one of the caves. GOOD FOOTAGE
13:20:27  USSR championship in weightlifting in Tallin.  Girls drumming. Athletes reaching new world records. Public cheer, applaud.  Winners on podium presented with prizes.          


LN 400-217  06:22:06 - 06:32:37           1972   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1972 #14  April

Air Force & Space day.  12Apr61 Bayconor(?) Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin board space ship and lift off.  Gagarin on podium in Red Square smiling & waving to huge crowd of people walking past with posters of him and cheering.
06:23:07  Celebrations of 11th anniversary of this in Kremlin palace.  Astronauts & pilots on stage greeted with flowers by children.  Public applauding.  Taking part in celebrations, Brezhnev & other Communist Party leaders.  Opening speech by president of USSR Academy of Science Keldish.  Others make speeches including USSR space man & pilot Leonov.  Public applauding.  Brezhnev listening with an ear piece.
06:24:08  In The Interests of the World And Disarming  High angle of city streets.  Meeting of officials signing convention to prohibit biological and toxic weapons & to destroy existing stock.  Signing & shaking hands from USSR Andrei Gromyko, from ASV Dzeko Bim & from UK John Killick.  USSR chai man Podgornij (Podgorny) makes speech about big role of Soviet Union in preparation of this convention, others applauding.
06:25:35  Laying of 818 km long oil pipeline in Siberia coming to end.  Worker welding the the last pipe, photographers take pictures, public watching.  Workers greeted by pioneers.  Congratulating speeches by USSR officials, Legachov & Kartunov, helicopter over.  Public applauding.  Pipes wrapped w/ protective tape.
06:26:35  Leningrad.  Building of floating fishing factory 'Poset' to be able to receive at any point in ocean & process up to 750 tons of fish in 24 hr.  Inside connecting wires.  Ship from outside.
06:27:27  Apr45 Budapest, people greet Soviet soldiers driving thru streets in tanks.  View of city w/ Freedom Memorial.  Moscow 27th anniversary of this day, opening speech by Borisov.  Others make speeches about friendship between Hungarian & USSR incl. Hungarian rep. Ula Rapei (?) who thanks soviets for freeing his country from fascists.  Public stand up & applaud.
06:28:26  Moscow's Academy of Arts & Crafts in name of Kalinin.  Students make carpets, decorate ceramics. Handpaint plates, wooden dishes, jewel boxes, traditional nesting dolls.
06:29:15  Police sergeant E. Kirolova teaches traffic rules & safety to kindergartens.  Children w/ toy cars  walk on playground roads.  Female traffic regulator, busy streets of Riga, Latvia.  Cars & trolley buses drive past.  Traffic policewoman in car talks on radio, another checks driver's documents.  Female officers stand in  row w/ motorbikes behind them & pose for camera.
06:30:05  Karelia(?) Factory workers by plane for weekend winter fishing on Sam Lake.  Plane lands on icy lake, people off w/ big bags.  Guys drill holes in ice & fish patiently, catch fish & throw on snow w/  smile on faces.  Heap of little fish in snow.
06:31:17  Leningrad indoor swimming pool & international swimming competition for the prize of newspaper Komsomolskaja Pravda.  Trophy on podium.  Female swimmers, cheering, winner from USSR Galina Stepanova.  Men in different styles of swimming.  Winners presented w/ loving cups.
           

221165          07:30:08 - 07:40:40            1972   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1972  #20  May
Moscow airport.  US & USSR flags on flag pole.  Air Force One lands, crowds gather to greet President Nixon on official visit to USSR.  Soviet VIPs w/ Kosygin, Podgorny & Gromyko walk toward plane.  High angle of aircraft, Nixon & wife off plane, shake hands w/ USSR VIPs, Nixon w/ Podgorny walks past army delegation, shake hands w/ people from crowd.  CU of NBC film camera.  Military Honor Guard marching past VIPs.  Escorted by police, Nixon driven thru streets of Moscow, people on roadsides.
07:32:01  High angle Kremlin, government leaders w/ Brezhnev
, Kosygin, Podgorny & Gromyko enter hall, meet w/ Nixon, Kissinger, Rogers & other US delegates, all shake hands.  Big line of reporters, photographers w/ cameras.  VIPs sit down around big table. (SALT 1 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
07:33:01  18May71, Kremlin.  Pioneers 50th anniversary celebration meeting. Standing applause, government leaders on stage as Pioneers enter hall.  Podgorny on podium, presents Pioneer flag w/ 2nd Lenin prize, all children cheer - thank you, applaud.  Young Pioneer makes speech (SOF), gives oath to follow in steps of Communist Party & love USSR - all Pioneers join in.  High angle of hall.  Celebration parade on Red Square in sushine, Pioneers march w/ posters, flags, give flowers to VIPs, high angle of big parade.
07:35:09  Tadzhikistan / Nurek, big mountains, huge dam construction, high angle of building site, water pouring out cylinder, close up of builders, men weld, look at building plans.  CU of workers.  Construction planning office, men work on plans.  Factory workers producing huge dam construction parts. Turbines.  High angle of construction site.
07:36:51  Kazakhstan, ore production mining site, high building, inside various machinery, lift goes under ground.  Men work w/ big machinery in mine, close shot of worker.  Man controls coal mining machine.
Woman operator in automatic control room, all sorts of machinery.  Big containers w/ ore raised & dumped.
07:38:23  Spring, men walk thru blossoming apple orchard.  Farm leader walks thru field towards men checking new automatic planter; planting, high angle of tractor in field & men working.
07:39:24  Federal Republic of Germany, Bundestag meeting hall.  Chancellor Willi Brandt on podium ask deputies to vote in favor of Moscow's & Warsaw's agreement.  High angle meeting hall, people w/ boxes in hands walk around hall & collect votes, various shots of members talking, all applaud (incl Franz-Josef Strauss & Ludwig Erhard) as deputy announces that vote is in favor.

221159          21:48:10 - 21:58:34            1972   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day  1972 #21 June
29May72 Kremlin palace.  Delegation into big hall.  Brezhnev & Nixon at table, sign cooperation agreement, other government leaders present incl. Podgorny, Suslov & Kosygin, Kissinger.  Brezhnev & Nixon exchange signed agreements, shake hands, all applaud. (21:49:26)  Newspaper headlines & articles highlighting agreement between Soviet Union & US, pictures of USSR & US leaders.  USSR & US flags next to each other on rainy day, Podgorny & Nixon walk past troops at airport, military parade, US president shake hands w/ general public & walks towards plane.  Nixon w/ wife up stairs, wave at top, people wave small Soviet & US flags, high angle plane on the runway, shot of both nation flags in flag post. (SALT 1 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
21:51:03  Armenia, Soviet-Armenian composer Alexander Arutunian, writes down notes, plays piano.  High angle country mountain view.  Capital city Yerevan, big square w/ pool & fountain in middle, filled w/ people, busy street, revolution hero monuments, group of children in the park, shot of schoolgirls.  Large building w/ Lenins portrait on wall.  Shots of various factories, metalworking industrial machinery, car manufacture, agriculture, woman picks grapes.  (21:52:32) Shot of university building, people in the street, fountains. LS of   city w/ huge mountain behind it.
21:52:53  Urals, factory worker M. Popov walks thru factory hall, CU of history book of Soviet Union w/ article about Popov.   Flashback to 1941, workers in tank manufacturing factory, newspaper articles w/ pictures of young M. Popov who led the first workers team of tank builders.  Popov in his present job - Ural car manufacture, looks at work plans w/ another man, various shots of factory workers, machinery. Popov gives prize to his brigades best workers, men look at prize & pass it around.
21:54:15  Moscow exhibition hall, Federal Republic of Germany (DDR) trade show, opening speech by German chairman (MOS), people applaud. People in exhibition hall, look at various automatic metal industry machinery, high angle factory.  Automation, numerical controlled machines.
21:55:21  Tadjikistan, contrasts of climate, Dushanbe region, poppy fields, waterfall, people collect flowers.
Hissar mountain w/ roads covered in deep snow, tractors plow snow, man w/ special sunglasses walks in front of tractor to show way, car on the cleared road.
21:56:10  Construction site of new 700 km electric power line Moscow to Bulgaria, transmission towers pulled  up w/ tractors, man w/ portable radio gives directions, worker on special bicycle rides high up on electric power line.
21:57:08  Sport.  Outskirts of Riga, Latvia motorcycle & motorbike racing championship, people w/ flags on stadium.  Race begins in Bikernieki race track, shots of bikes racing through woodland roads, people on roadsides. Latvian racer 1st crosses the finish line, shot of the winner.  Race for bikes w/ side cars, seen from various angles, spectators watch, race winners from Estonia get their prize.          

 

LN 400-205  09:22:44 - 09:33:12            1972 ; 1961  SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1972 #14  April
09:23:06  Air Force & Space Day  12Apr61 Bayconor(?) astronaut cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin boards rocket lifts off.  Since, on April 12 the USSR celebrates Air Force & Space Day. View of Gagarin; earth.  Gagarin on Red Square podium smiling and waving to crowds of people walking past w/ posters of him & cheering.
09:23:44  Kremlin palace celebration of 11th anniversary.  Astronauts & pilots on stage given flowers by children.  Applause.  Brezhnev
& other communist party leaders on stage w/ AF members & space men.   P President of USSR Academy of Science Keldish at podium; cosmonauts & others listen;  cosmonaut & pilot Leonov at podium. 
09:24:43  In the Interests of the World and Disarming.  Meeting of officials signing convention to prohibit inventing & producing biological & toxic weapons and to destroy existing.  Signing the document & shaking hands: USSR Andrei Gromyko, from ASV Dzeko Bim and from UK John Kilik.
09:25:26  Party chairman Podgorny making speech (MOS) about role of Soviet Union in preparation of this convention, others applauding; signing  by other representatives of 43 countries. 
09:26:12   818km-long oil pipeline in Siberia completed.  Men working on machinery; welding the last pipe, photographers, public watching as Legachov & Kartunov at mic speaking.  Workers greeted by pioneers.
Pipe wrapped w/ protective tape.
09:27:12  Leningrad drydock & building massive floating fishing factory 'Poset' to deliver its production to any point in the world and process up to 750 tons of fish in 24 hr.   Mechanics working to finish ship.
09:28:03  Flashback to Apr45 Budapest, people greeting liberating soviet soldiers thru streets on tanks.
09:28:18  View of city, freedom memorial high above it.   Moscow 27th anniversary openis  w/ Borisov at mic.  Hungarian representative Ula Rapei (?) thanks soviets for freeing his country from fascists.  Applauding.
09:29:03  Moscow's academy of art and crafts.  Students weaving, decorate ceramics. Handpainting on plates, wooden dishes, jewel boxes, traditional dolls.
09:29:52  Police sergeant E.Kirolova teaching traffic rules & safety to children w/ toy cars & walking on playground roads.  (09:30:10) Female traffic regulator on streets of Riga w/ cars, trolley buses past.  Police woman in car talks on radio, another checks documents of drivers.  All female officers stand w/ motorbikes behind them posing for camera.  CU
09:30:41  Karelia(?) factory workers by plane on weekend  winter fishing break to Sam lake.  Plane lands on ice, people off w/ big bags in hands.   Plane leaves.  Guys drill holes in ice & put in fishing lines; waiting patiently, catching fish & throwing it on the snow with smile on faces.  Pile of little fish.
09:31:55  Leningrad.  Army's indoor swimming pool.   Teams w/ flags to take part in International swimming competition for prize of newspaper 'Komsomolskaja Pravda'.  Crystal cup on podium.  Female swimmers. Public cheering, winner from USSR Galina Stepanova.  Men compete in different styles of swimming.  Winners presented with trophies.      

 

221189          00:53:00 - 01:03:13           1973   SD        COL&B/W       

World Congress of Peace Forces:  Peace To You Our Planet Earth  Pt 1 of 5
25-31Oct73  Scenics:  sky, clouds, waterfall, tropical beach, high angle of nice country side fields, river, woods.  Beautiful sunset over lake.  Little girl plays w/ ant(?) on her hand.  Birds fly over lake.
00:54:25  War scenes in Middle East, bombs, explosions, building on fire, dead bodies, huge smoke goes up in the air (Yom Kippur War).
00:54:56  War in Cambodia two young boys cover their ears.  Buildings on fire in Northern Ireland.  Protesters in masks, glasses.  Police w/ dogs in South Africa.  Scenes of atrocities from Rhodesia, South  Africa, Mozambique w/ arrests, kickings, fighting.  Police fire tear gas in protesting crowds.  Officers kick captured black guys.  Black woman screams, try to hit policeman.  Collapsed guy pulled by arms.  Injured Protesters..
00:55:51  CUs of different nationality peoples, destroyed cities.  Various demonstrations 'US out of Vietnam'.  Street theater.  Winter, bride & groom, newlyweds pay respects at war memorial(?).
00:57:04  25Oct73  Representatives of more than 1000 organizations, parties, movements from 143 countries walk in Moscow street together for World Congress of Peace Forces.  Various nationality people walk down the street together, enter Kremlin Palace.  Introduction speeches by delegates from Scotland, Vietnam, Leningrad, Japan, woman teacher from Kenya, India, singer Dean Reed from US, Cuba, Solomon Sellasie of Ethiopia (SOF).
01:00:45  Congress begins.  On stage leaders of national and international peace organizations, all stand & applaud.  Soviet Communist party & Gov. leaders w/ Brezhnev
as guests of honor.
01:01:21  Speech by International preparatory committee chairman, R. Chandra(?).  People watch Congress on television.  Audience listen w/ ear phones, make notes.  All rise & applaud.

 

221189          01:12:59 - 01:22:10           1973   SD        COL&B/W       

World Congress of Peace Forces:  Peace To You Our Planet Earth  Pt 3 of 5
25-31Oct73 
01:12:59  View of city from rooftop.  Winners of International Lenin's Peace Prize in many countries including Brezhnev.
01:13:39  Brezhnev addresses the congress w/ long speech (SOF w/ voice-over translation).  Audience welcomes Communist leader w/ huge applause.  CUs of delegates listening, make notes.  Brezhnev talks of end of Vietnam War as a victory for Socialist countries. 

Re various wars & protesting.  GOOD

221129          05:00:14 - 05:12:35           1973   SD        COL&B/W       

World Congress of Peace Forces:  Peace To You Our Planet Earth  Pt 4 of 5
25-31Oct73  (Continued from LN 400-215) Brezhnev
's speech in front of large auditorium w/ English translation over speech.  CU of delegates applauding.  All audience raise to applaud.  Brezhnev hold hands w/ Chandra(?), everybody joins hands.
05:05:32  Press office, typing & on telephone.  People buy newspapers on street; CU of newspaper articles of Brezhnev's speech.  Polish, NY Times, Czechoslovakian & other newspaper articles.
05:06:42  In congress:  Secretary General Perada (?) of World Federation of the United Nations Associations thanks Brezhnev for his inspiring speech . Other nation representatives incl. ?? from Czechoslovakia, Krishna Menem of India, Abdel Karim (?), poet of Palestine, ?? of Finland tell how soviet leader has inspired them w/ his speech.
05:09:26  High angle Moscow city scenes.  Various delegates talking casually with each other.  CU taking notes.  Delegates at various meetings listening, speaking  incl. President of International Federation of War Veterans - Cooper(?); British Labor Party member & 1959 Nobel prize winner for Peace, Philip J. Noel-Baker; Russian Archbishop Patriarch Pinen(sp?); Congress Vice-President & leader of Amnesty International Sean McBride.
           

LN 400-208  13:32:41 - 13:42:45            1977   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1977 #22  June
Kremlin palace, North Vietnam Prime minister Phan Van Dong greeted by Brezhnev, friendly meeting.
13:33:38  Brezhnev & Gromyko greets Foreign Minister of France ?, meeting about cooperation between both countries an up coming Brezhnev
visit to France, line of reporters in background.
13:34:21  People at newsstand for mornings newspapers with new USSR Constitution, reading the project all over the country on streets, at work, several big factory meetings to discuss. (SOF)
13:36:59  Surocov's brigade works on pre-fabricated construction in huge new city  Shots of all sorts of houses assembled w/ crane. Teams leader - Anatol Surofcov put forward as deputy candidate for Moscow's labor party, everyone looks at the application.
13:38:15  Kosygin greets Rumanian Vice-Prime Minister Oprja(?)
13:38:46  Kremlin palace meeting of International Society of Science.  Speech by Zenanin(?), and by academician Artobojevsky& others (MOS).
13:39:50  Kid's watercolor art exhibition of winning pictures from international children's painting competition organized by Indian magazine  - 'Shankars weekly' (?) in International Friendship House.  Winners greeted by Indian Republic's representative (squeezes kids faces when gives medals)  Gudzhral(?) and Lenin's praise winner writer Agnia Bordo. All kids applaud.
13:41:08  Kremlin palace.  Final concert of all nation's laureates in folk song & dance.  People enter building, full hall of people applaud.  In tribune communist and soviet government leaders w/ Brezhnev
, Suslov, Kosygin and others.  Performances by different nation folk groups; at the end performers sing together Russian song.

LN 400-206  11:23:45 - 11:34:01            1978   SD        B/W   

Russian News of the Day 1978 #20  May
Meeting in Kremlin palace.  Brezhnev w/ VIPs welcomes Mexican president Jose Lopez Portillo on official visit to USSR.  Meeting w/ Brezhnev, Kosygin, Gromyko & Portillo.  Gromyko & Mexican minister Garcia signs agreement for nuclear weapon ban in Latin America.  Brezhnev w/ other leaders applaud.
11:25:37  People working in large underground ore mine w/ big machinery.  Workers arrive on special  bus. Complicated technology used w/o supports.  In his house team leader has meal with his wife( honored with prize - mother hero) and lots of children.  Back at work with eldest son work on machinery.  Dramatic shot of    workers walking w/ torches silhouetted.
11:27:17  Growing sileage indoors w/ artificial flourescent light and large machinery to provide collective farms w/ cattle feed.  Men inspect 'hay'.  Men switch on watering equipment.
11:28:20  Carpathian mountains.  Constructing huge electric transmission lines over mountains.  Men work very high up; raising towers; surveying.
11:29:40  Moscow, meeting of International Democratic Women's Federation.   Many different nationality women.  Artist drawing African lady in audience.  Ponamorjov(?) speech - reads Brezhnevs letter.  Soviet women chairwoman Nikolayeva Tereshkova(?) greets delegates.  Participants listening with earpieces
11:30:55  Center for Medical Science and Surgical Experiments.  Doctors check patient whose finger was sewed back on a few month ago.  Patient smiling and moving his hand.  X-rays of hand.  2 surgeons together perform operation using microscopes.  Nurse watches.  Patient comes for after operation checkup.
11:32:22   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.
           

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