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Russian News of the Day 1972 #21 June

Reel Number: 221159-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1972

Country: Armenia,Latvia,Russia,Tajikistan,USSR

Location: Armenia,Latvia,Moscow,Tadjikistan,urals,Yerevan

TC Begins: 21:48:10

TC Ends: 21:58:34

Duration: 00:10:24

Russian News of the Day 1972 #21 June 29May72 Kremlin palace. Delegation into big hall. Brezhnev & Nixon at table, sign cooperation agreement, other government leaders present incl. Podgorny, Suslov & Kosygin, Kissinger. Brezhnev & Nixon exchange signed agreements, shake hands, all applaud. (21:49:26) Newspaper headlines & articles highlighting agreement between Soviet Union & US, pictures of USSR & US leaders. USSR & US flags next to each other on rainy day, Podgorny & Nixon walk past troops at airport, military parade, US president shake hands w/ general public & walks towards plane. Nixon w/ wife up stairs, wave at top, people wave small Soviet & US flags, high angle plane on the runway, shot of both nation flags in flag post. (SALT 1 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) 21:51:03 Armenia, Soviet-Armenian composer Alexander Arutunian, writes down notes, plays piano. High angle country mountain view. Capital city Yerevan, big square w/ pool & fountain in middle, filled w/ people, busy street, revolution hero monuments, group of children in the park, shot of schoolgirls. Large building w/ Lenin’s portrait on wall. Shots of various factories, metalworking industrial machinery, car manufacture, agriculture, woman picks grapes. (21:52:32) Shot of university building, people in the street, fountains. LS of city w/ huge mountain behind it. 21:52:53 Urals, factory worker M. Popov walks thru factory hall, CU of history book of Soviet Union w/ article about Popov. Flashback to 1941, workers in tank manufacturing factory, newspaper articles w/ pictures of young M. Popov who led the first workers team of tank builders. Popov in his present job - Ural car manufacture, looks at work plans w/ another man, various shots of factory workers, machinery. Popov gives prize to his brigade’s best workers, men look at prize & pass it around. 21:54:15 Moscow exhibition hall, Federal Republic of Germany (DDR) trade show, opening speech by German chairman (MOS), people applaud. People in exhibition hall, look at various automatic metal industry machinery, high angle factory. Automation, numerical controlled machines. 21:55:21 Tadjikistan, contrasts of climate, Dushanbe region, poppy fields, waterfall, people collect flowers. Hissar mountain w/ roads covered in deep snow, tractors plow snow, man w/ special sunglasses walks in front of tractor to show way, car on the cleared road. 21:56:10 Construction site of new 700 km electric power line Moscow to Bulgaria, transmission towers pulled up w/ tractors, man w/ portable radio gives directions, worker on special bicycle rides high up on electric power line. 21:57:08 Sport. Outskirts of Riga, Latvia motorcycle & motorbike racing championship, people w/ flags on stadium. Race begins in Bikernieki race track, shots of bikes racing through woodland roads, people on roadsides. Latvian racer 1st crosses the finish line, shot of the winner. Race for bikes w/ side cars, seen from various angles, spectators watch, race winners from Estonia get their prize.

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