Summary

RUSSIAN LIFE TODAY: INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION

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Title: RUSSIAN LIFE TODAY: INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION
File Number: FRA-11 DigiBeta
Color: Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 1960s
Description: Color 1960s Subtle anti-Soviet, anti-communist propaganda film disguised as a cultural documentary about USSR culture in the more prominent Soviet republics. Excellent early 1960s footage of Moscow, Russian lifestyles, scenics, cityscapes, etc. [Eastern Europe, Coomunist Bloc Warsaw Pact, Cold War]. Directed by Fredric Christian. . 01:40:00:00 Color 1960s WS the Kremlin Wall and the Kremlin with Moscow River in FG. 01:40:10:00 Color 1960s USSR Russia city (probabaly Moscow) street scene pedestrian people walking up and down stairs of sidewalk subway train station entrance - this shot is also noteworthy in that a group of blind people are being assisted down the stairs by chaperones who hold their hands. 01:40:33:00 Color 1960s Uniformed children students sitting at desks and teacher woman in USSR Russia elementary school classroom. 01:41:06:00 Color 1950s Excellent and colorful spinning globe of the Earth spinning against a very 1950s outer space starfield, good shot DISSOLVE to a CU of the USSR on the topographic globe, with an outline of the US superimposed to compare the sizes of the two countries, and with the boundaries of the USSR republics outlined. 01:42:15:00 Color 1960s PAN the Kremlin with Moscow River in FG. 01:42:46:00 Color 1960s PAN across Red Square, from the Kremlin to St Basil's Cathedral. 01:42:56:00 Color 1960s VS a Communist political rally in Red Square - possibly May Day or a holiday in honor of Lenin: crowds, banners, red flags, large portrait of Lenin, sign with portrait of Khrushchev, officials on dais reviewing stand. 01:43:27:00 Color 1960s VS people walking around in city squares public plazas in USSR Russia. 01:43:40:00 Color 1960s VS people waiting on a very, very long line stretching down sidewalks and streets leading to Red Square building housing Lenin's tomb (not shown) three goose-stepping guard soldiers pass the crowd. 01:43:57:00 Color 1960s EXT St Basil's Cathedral. 01:44:03:00 Color 1960s EXT a Romanesque cathedral in Russia USSR. 01:44:21:00 Color 1960s VS Eastern Orthodox Russian Orthodox church service priests. 01:44:34:00 Color 1960s VS Moscow city street scenes - pedestrian people on sidewalks, car and bus traffic, traffic cop, people boarding bus. 01:45:06:00 Color 1960s VS Leningrad subway, in b w: subway train pulling into station INT subway car with passengers sitting on the benches crowd of commuters gets off of train in station. 01:45:32:00 Color 1960s Travelers walking down platform and boarding train at outdoor train station in Russia USSR tourist woman with TWA luggage boards train. 01:45:42:00 Color 1960s CU portrait shot of two smiling, healthy, Russian children wearing elementary school uniforms - boy with his arm around girl. 01:45:47:00 Color 1960s Group of little boys wearing military school uniforms and caps walking down USSR Russian city street sidewalk, escorted by teachers. 01:45:54:00 Color 1960s Row of cribs in a drab hospital maternity ward CU cute swaddled baby lying peacefully in crib with eyes open another baby sitting upright in crib. 01:46:07:00 Color 1960s Russian children playing together in day care center. 01:46:20:00 Color 1960s Russian USSR elementary school classroom scenes, all students wear uniforms, some wear communist-symbolic red scarves of the Young Pioneers: teacher at blackboard girl gets up from desk to work out a mathematical problem at large abacus in front of the room studious children sitting at their desks taking notes students in hallway in between classes in another classroom with older students, a girl stands in front of the class and points out places on a globe for the geography teacher woman, then returns to her desk. 01:47:16:00 Color 1960s Russian USSR children at a Young Pioneers' summer camp: uniformed children staring at CAM children swimming and frolicking together in swimming pool children crowded onto a spinning merry-go-round ride in playground a child saluting and a crowd of children clapping during communist youth political rally, all wear red scarves. 01:47:41:00 Color 1960s EXT the large Moscow University building. 01:47:54:00 Color 1960s EXT Bolshoi Theater and people relaxing around the fountain in Theater Square. 01:48:01:00 Color 1960s VS ballerinas dancing during ballet lesson at the Bolshoi school. 01:48:31:00 Color 1960s VS people walking through galleries past sculptures and paintings in a Russian USSR art museum CUs various classical religous paintings. 01:48:56:00 Color 1960s WS pedestrian people walking across public plaza square in Russian USSR city. 01:48:59:00 Color 1960s Sidewalk book and magazine seller's display table shoppers reading. 01:49:12:00 Color 1960s Woman street vendor with snack food-laden pushcart on sidewalk. 01:49:17:00 Color 1960s USSR Russian men stand around on city sidewalk drinking glasses of beer at small outdoor street market bar. 01:49:31:00 Color 1960s INT an ornate and beautiful arcade of the GUM department store mall on Red Square, crowded with shoppers and people hanging out around a fountain. 01:49:46:00 Color 1960s Moscow store window displays - clothing and mannequin dummies an arrangement of delicacy meat foods. 01:50:03:00 Color 1960s EXT front foor entrance of the Hotel Metropole in Moscow couple talking and reading newspaper at table in hotel restaurant. 01:50:13:00 Color 1960s WS large complex of ugly and generic apartment buildings in a Russian USSR city, pedestrian people walking down plaza sidewalk in FG. 01:50:26:00 Color 1960s Russian USSR girl jumping rope in courtyard of an old building. 01:50:32:00 Color 1960s Small town street scenes in Russia USSR: a few women walking down street past a house children in silhouette sitting and playing in a cobblestone alley, clothesline hangs in BG. 01:50:46:00 Color 1960s INT well-furnished apartment of middle-class USSR Russian family: VS clean and colorful rooms and attractive furniture little girl standing next to refrigerator woman making bed enthusiastically man adjusting tuning knob of old-fashioned radio and putting his arm affectionately around his daughter VS group of middle- aged people sitting around dining room table, passing platters of food and eating CU hand smearing some caviar on a cracker. 01:51:35:00 Color 1960s Convalescent patients lying in row of beds in drab Russian USSR hospital ward. 01:51:45:00 Color 1960s Three Russuan USSR doctor women (or nurses), wearing white scrubs, smile and pose for CAM. 01:51:55:00 Color 1960s The snow-covered city streets of Moscow in the winter: pedestrian people walking down street past snowdrifts, office building in BG man and two budled-up children walk out of building around piles of shovelled snow, they say goodbye to each other as the children walk toward school. 01:52:23:00 Color 1960s PAN snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains. 01:52:53:00 Color 1960s HS rooftops and treetops of the Tbilisi, Georgia cityscape PAN houses built atop a weathered sandstone cliff. 01:53:10:00 Color 1960s EXT the Capitol Building in Tbilisi, Georgia bronze statue of Lenin at a Tbilisi traffic circle. 01:53:20:00 Color 1960s VS cobbler shoe-maker men repairing shoes at their outdoor, old-world street market shoe-shop in Georgia. 01:53:37:00 Color 1960s VS very good shots of produce stalls and shoppers at a crowded Georgian street market, many babushka bonnets on display - long tables laden with green. leafy vegetables vendor counting his money onions, carrots, radishes, apples, etc. - colorful displays. 01:54:15:00 Color 1960s On-screen topographic map of Asia, ZI to Ukraine with highlighted borders. 01:54:47:00 Color 1960s HA panorama of cityscape and harbor port of Kiev, Ukraine. 01:55:04:00 Color 1960s Champagne (?) or other type of alcoholic beverage . beer liquor distillery and bottling plant: women wearing white lab-coats working with flasks of liquid and distillery apparatus in chemistry laboratory VS worker women wearing white caps and smocks on the assembly line fill bottles with the liquid by hand and cap the bottles. 01:55:21:00 Color 1960s EXT a farm barn and corral in Ukraine. 01:55:31:00 Color 1960s Women working in a Ukrainian bakery bread factory pour a slimy blob of dough out of a huge vat into baking tray. 01:55:46:00 Color 1960s A bakery in Ukraine: loaves of bread on display in store window baker clerk woman takes bread out of cabinet packed full with loaves behind the store counter two children buying loaves of bread. 01:56:10:00 Color 1960s Agriculture farming (can read as a collective farm) in Ukraine, good shots: VS horses and brown cattle in ranch corral peasant farmer man pitching hay onto a horse-drawn wagon baboushka-wearing peasant women picking green leaves in herb garden, tilling soil with hoes and hand-picking vegetable crop from farm field VS children tending to farm field and orchard trees together. 01:57:32:00 Color 1960s USSR Russia city (Moscow?) street scene pedestrian people walking up and down stairs of sidewalk subway train station entrance. 01:57:39:00 Color 1960s Group of pretty USSR Russian teenage girl friends pose together and smile at CAM. 01:57:43:00 Color 1960s Group of Russian USSR Young Pioneer children wearing red scarves and bearing a red flag marching in street parade. 01:57:46:00 Color 1960s Sidewalk book and magazine seller's display table shoppers reading. Probably Moscow. 01:57:56:00 Color 1960s Russian USSR woman working in food processing factory sticks a food thermometer into huge vats of gross-looking food mush. 01:58:02:00 Color 1960s Russian USSR girl jumping rope in courtyard of an old building. 01:58:05:00 Color 1960s Leningrad: INT subway car with passengers sitting on the benches. 01:58:08:00 Color 1960s Group of USSR Russian children wearing school uniforms and red scarves studying together in elemrntary school classroom. 01:58:14:00 Color 1960s EXT the Kremlinl CU onion domes. 01:58:28:00 Color 1960s On-screen map of Asia, ZI to Georgia with highlighted borders.
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