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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221070-09
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1948
Country: Hungary
Location: Budapest
TC Begins: 17:50:51
TC Ends: 17:59:58
Duration: 00:09:07
Demotraticheskaia Vengria Reel 1 of 6 Documentary depicting ‘democratic’ conditions in Budapest following Soviet ‘liberation’. Reel 1 shows solidarity between Hungarian and Soviet people to build Communism through scenes of workers, monuments and new construction. Statue reaching to sky at sunset. Workers on way to work - EXT factory & street - men giving solidarity gestures. 17:53:30 Freedom memorial memorial dedicated to WWII Soviet soldiers; CU Russian inscription; good HA pan from top of statue across Budapest, divided by River Danube - destroyed bridge visible; street scenes showing grand architecture inc. ‘Square of Freedom’; VS monuments of city esp. religious & military statuary - Hungary’s 1000-year monument. Hungarian & Soviet ? flags flying side by side. LS & high-angle shot House of Parliament across river. 17:56:12 Very good Budapest street scenes: warden directing traffic - streetcars & pedestrians - crowded sidewalks - girls in traditional dress, fat policeman, washer women, fashionable woman in sunglasses, priest etc. Organ grinder & child acrobat on sidewalk. Nuns walking in park. Newspaper vendors - people reading. Government building. CU street sign ‘V.ker Sztalin-Ter’. Line of women sitting in park w/ prams. ‘Molotov’ street. HA shot plaza next to river w/ monument to Russian pilots - sculpture of warplane on top - kids playing at base. 17:58:47 More street scenes: road repairs & new construction work; worker up ladder high above city; huge girders moved into place for first rebuilt bridge - ‘Bridge of Freedom’ - traffic across. Communist Occupation. Post-WWII Hungary. Soviet Propaganda. Cold War;