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1958 - USSR Newsreel: Mao Visit; Diplomat To Afghanistan; Sputnik; Diplomacy; Gardens; Gag

Reel Number: 221412-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1958,1950s

Country: Afghanistan,China,Latvia,Norway,Russia,USSR

Location: Latvia,Moscow,Peking,Riga

TC Begins: 22:40:57

TC Ends: 22:50:47

Duration: 00:09:50

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1958 - USSR Newsreel: Mao Visit; Diplomat To Afghanistan; Sputnik; Diplomacy; Gardens; Gag 22:41:20 Title: 9th Anniversary of People’s Republic of China. Meeting of Chinese community in Moscow w/ Soviet - China Friendship Committee Chairman Andreyev (MOS). Montage: Steel mill, CU Chinese workers & large furnaces. Machine parts factory, Orientals at long table assemble various bearings. People on truck pulling long line of hay wagons. CU new car on road past workers; new tractor out of factory. Huge field, night harvest w/ Chinese combine working. Girls w/ flowers smile & wave flower bunches. 22:42:35 Chairman Mao walks alongside workers, stops & applauds. Huge crowds in Tiananmen Square for parade, people wave w/ flowers. Khrushchev meets Mao on farm, shake hands. Back to anniversary meeting, Andreyev on podium, audience applauds; Ambassador of China Lu Thau(?), applause as Andreyev shakes hands w/ Chinese ambassador. 22:43:09 Title: In Friendly Afghanistan. Moscow airport, Voroshilov leaving for Afghanistan visit shakes hands w/ VIPs, people wave & applaud, Voroshilov bows w/ open arms (GOOD), young kids run up w/ flowers, people smile, wave; Voroshilov waves hat from airplane stairs. Officials wave as plane starts moving. 22:43:57 Title: In Honor of 11th Congress of CPSU. Grain to horizon, tractor w/ harvesting combine, CU tractor driver off tractor, changes place w/ son on combine; daughter on combine. Combine cutting & harvesting. CU women shovel grain, trucks at outdoor storage. 22:45:06 CU textile factory machinery, woman factory worker show’s new way of replacing threads in machine saving 2 meters of thread, large machines from various angles. 22:46:04 Title: This Day Will Never Be Forgotten. Animation of first Soviet sputnik, man looks up; thru starry sky, various nations’ newspapers featuring articles about USSR sputnik. One year later people in exhibition hall look at copies of 2nd & 3rd sputnik, CU Sputnik models. 22:46:52 LS Kremlin, CU new ambassador of Norway Oscar Christian Gundersen presents credentials to USSR Deputy Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet Mikhail Tarasov & shake hands. 22:47:27 Moscow, crowd in square for unveiling of monument of Russian artist Repin. Art Academy Pres. Yoganson pulls white sheet off, CU statue w/ people viewing. USSR Culture Minister Mihailov at microphone (MOS), people putting baskets of flowers on monument, CU remembrance plate & statue. 22:48:19 Int. Kremlin, USSR Trade Minister Potolechev greets officials from Switzerland, shake hands & talk in hall, Kosygin talking to guests; delegates w/ glasses in their hands. 22:48:49 CU Palm trees & cactus in Ashabatsk’s botanic garden, 2 little girls & huge leaves of Victoria Cruziana water lily, girl sits on leaf, smile & wave. People wait in evening for blossoms to open. 22:49:37 Riga. Swimming pool in VEF factory opens w/ flag raising. Neptune & other sea kingdom inhabitants (GAG) give blessings to new pool w/ symbolic key & throwing fully dressed people in the pool, laughter, applause. Factory’s youth start swimming meet, boys diving in & swimming. The End Communist newsreel; Diplomacy; Propaganda; Oddities; Agriculture; Government; Diplomats; Space Race; Cold War; Gags; NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate. Very good. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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