Russian News of the Day 1961 #13 April

Russian News of the Day 1961 #13 April “Guests from Burma in Moscow’’. CU airplane, Burmese General Ne Win w/ wife exits aircraft, greeted by USSR defense minister Marshall Malinovsky, shake hands. Malinovsky & Ne Win walk past & salute military, national flags flying. Kremlin, Khrushchev meets General Ne Win, shake hands, talk at table. Burma 09:10:38 “Storming of Cosmos continues”. Rocket launch w/ dogs, Belka & Strelka, & rats on board, CU dogs at lift off, rats flying weightless in space, nose cone lands w/ parachute, scientists check dogs. 09:11:43 Press conference in Academy of Science, scientists tell reporters of their research results from animal flights to space, CU reporters make notes, dogs shown in front of reporters, photographers take pictures, dogs on way home by car. 09:12:25 ‘’Towards 22nd congress of CPSU”. Turkmania, helicopter delivers workers to desert construction site & oil drilling, CU drilling machinery, oil out of pipe, line of tractors w/ pipes for pipeline & pulling derrick. 09:13:38 TV set manufacturing factory, conveyor w/ television tubes, workers manually move parts. Robotic manufacturing of picture tubes. Fully automatic factory, machines, high angle machinery. 09:14:26 Kremlin, Brezhnev meets Mali ambassador, delegates read their speeches & exchange documents, shake hands, Brezhnev smiles. 09:15:07 Medical students, newlyweds Tanya & Boris, hold 16mm film & 35mm of their trip to Ceylon, couple speak (SOF) & tell that they have decided to move to Ceylon to work as doctors so they can get proper experience as there aren’t many doctors there, shot of medical students on their way to institute. 09:16:05 Tajikistan, sheep in field, farmers weigh young lamb on scales, CU Tajik farmers, shots of sheep. 09:16:46 Woods, CU of feet walking, hand picks up dry branch, w/ little knife shapes it into reindeer, shots of various wood figurines, CU artist Vera, sculpts figures out of wood. Woodcarving; whittling. 09:17:41 Latvia, fashion designers in bus, look at drawings, women demonstrate new collection of work clothes, women model new comfortable clothes outside farm, inside hothouse, in textile factory, doing housework. Gag; design. 09:18:28 Moscow, CU guest of Moscow’s Friendship University Paul Robeson, applause, Robeson on stage presented w/ order of honor & painting of Patrice Lumumba, sings in Russian (SOF), audience applaud. 09:19:29 Latvia, Aluksne lake, winter, All Union ice boat race, man looks w/ binoculars, yachts on ice from various angles, winning team from Estonia, throws in the air their driver (brief). Space Race; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.