Russian News of the Day 1972 #03 January

Russian News of the Day 1972 #03 January Kremlin, Podgorny meets Poland foreign minister Stephan Alshovsky, shake hands, all enter meeting room sit at small round table, Posgorny cleans glasses w/ serviette, talk in relaxed atmosphere, CU Gromyko, photographers take pictures. Diplomacy. 21:01:34 Siberia, high angle POV from crane in aluminum factory, man drives special machinery, workers & ingots, drawing machinery; women drive small delivery cars w/ ingots. 21:02:34 Karakumi, Turkmenistan desert, high angle desert, workers w/ big tractors move derricks, central Karakumi gas field construction, drilling, men build gas pipeline, weld pipe, special machinery covers pipe w/ protective coating, high angle pipeline across desert. Petroleum; oil; natural gas. 21:03:40 Woods in winter. Women collect mushrooms inside hothouse. CU Boxes of mushrooms. Hothouses, workers inside pick squash and vegetables, man drives tractor inside the greenhouse. Man walks past huge heating boilers, CU tomatoes, thermometer shows temperature, watering system, shots of long lines of boxes w/ tomatoes & cucumbers. 21:04:50 Moscow, CU smiling metro workers, first passengers on newly built 22 km subway line from city’s North to South. People in underground tunnel, on escalators, on the platform. POV subway thru station. 21:05:27 Shatursky furniture manufacture, woman driving fork-lift w/ wood; people at saws, panels out of machine. CCTV camera, foreman in office watching machines & workers on TV monitor. Pan over assembled finished furniture: cupboard, living room furniture sets. Consumer goods. 21:06:23 Kamchatka’s fishing fleet ships at sea, captain and assistant at helm in control room. Huge fishing net pulled out of sea onboard, CU fishermen & captain. Big load of fish poured out of the net. Shot of other ship close by. 21:07:08 Moscow streets. Couples from Tokyo wedding ceremony, groom & bride walk in to Soviet International Friendship House, photographers take pictures, ceremony in big hall, exchange rings, soviet guests congratulate newlyweds, give presents, all guests applaud. 21:08:04 Festival “Russian Winter”, shot of Kremlin at dark. Closing concert, soviet ballet dancers, Vladimir Vasiliev & Ekaterina Maximova perform fragments from L. Minkus “Don Quixote”, audience applauds. 21:09:27 Ukrainian folk dance group perform on stage, men show complicated dance moves, applause. Leaping, jumping, tumbling, spinning. Culture performance.