From Congress to Congress R1 of 5

From Congress to Congress R1 of 5 Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow (English narration) March 1966. B/W shots of Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, flags & delegates outside Kremlin Palace of Congresses for 23rd Party Congress. INT delegates stand & applaud, Leonid Brezhnev speaks re Eighth Five Year Plan for 1966-1970. VO translation by narrator. LS of room, MS delegates, CUs. 12:02:32 Title: From Congress to Congress. Heavy industry montage. VO re accomplishments of 8th Five Year Plan. Electric towers, wires under construction. pylons; hydroelectric dams. 12:04:17 Lenin’s GOELRO Plan for recovery of USSR & electrification. 1920s shots of first Soviet power station; output compared to that of plant built during 8th Five Year Plan. INT of thermal & atomic power plants. Construction at Novovoronezh atomic power station; & hydroelectric dams in remote regions inc. Chukotka. Workers on cliff face & in tunnels at Nurek Dam construction on Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. Visit by Brezhnev, Autumn 1970 - talks to crowd of workers. Krasnoyarsk dam on Yenisei River, tenth unit turned on on centenary of Lenin’s birth, 1970 project leader Andrei Botchkin - flashback shots of river being blocked & construction workers welding high above dam - turbines installed. 12:08:48 Office interior w/ two men. Montage: new communities, lights, little girl playing piano, neon & other lights. Dam lighted at night. Top shot looking down onto dam spillways. Botchkin surveys construction of Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, second scheme on Yenisei River. Electricity pylons & men working in buckets. Russia / USSR; Travelogues; Heavy Industry; Communism; Sustainable Resources / Energy; Industries; Electrification; Nuclear Fuel; Promotional Films; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.