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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220925-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1953
Country: Czechia,Czechoslovakia
Location: Prague
TC Begins: 11:32:53
TC Ends: 11:41:53
Duration: 00:09:00
Stalin’s Death - Reaction Various shots from balcony & entrance to museum as crowd gathers to listen to Premier (Zapotosky) speech in Prague, Czechoslovakia w/ filled street & enormous crowd. 11:33:33 Street scenes. Various CUs, Czech newspapers announcing the illness and later the death of Josef Stalin. Papers are dated 4 March 1953. Czech civilians read announcement from bulletin boards; families listen to radio; black mourning flags on banners; large speakers broadcast death of Stalin (MOS); people listen & various CUs, reactions of people as they read newspapers. People cry, children lay wreaths. 11:37:49 Czech coal miners gather for announcement of Stalin's death; pan of workers as they listen to article read. Int, male & female factory workers gathered for speech. 11:40:04 Russian embassy - long line of people carrying flowers & wreaths into Soviet Embassy; place wreaths near bust of Stalin. Wreaths placed round statue of Stalin. Deserted streets. Flame burning. 1950s; Communism; Celebrity; Icon; Hero; Sadness;