Russian News of The Day 1959 #17 April Pt. 1 of 2
“Lenin’s 89th birthday” CU Lenin’s portrait. Celebration at the ornate Bolshoi Theater hall, large Lenin sculpture on stage, audience give standing applause to Soviet VIPs coming on stage incl. Mikoyan, Suslov & others. Lenin’s Guard veterans also on stage. At microphone Comrade Kirichenko introduces Brezhnev who speaks. Various shots of audience. Fragment of Brezhnev’s speech (SOF) tells how all the communist party’s & working people’s achievements lead back to the great Lenin. Applause, says to follow Marxism's & Leninism’s lead to the great victory of Communism, public & VIPs applaud.
16:13:20 “Lenin Prize Winners” Machine tool (?) factory, big machinery, 3 engineers are Lenin’ Prize winners for their invention of new machine. CU engineers tell (SOF) about the new machines; the new machinery in factory hall; CU automatic machinery supervised by only 2 workers.
16:14:39 Moscow monument of the famous Russian writer & poet Vladimir Mayakovski. CU statue, people take pictures, put flowers. CU sculptor Alexander Kipalnikov(?) in his workshop w/ Lenin statue behind him, speaks (SoF), he’s glad that people like his statue of Mayakovski on which he worked for many years & for which he was awarded w/ a Lenin prize. CU sculptor works on a statue, stands next to unfinished sculpture.
16:15:44 LS Kremlin. Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR Poleckis meets Ambassador of Iran M. Ansari. Ansari & Poleckis read their speeches & exchange papers.
16:16:21 Moscow airport, snowy evening, Soviet editors & journalists greet editor delegation from GDR. East German delegates shake hands w/ greeters. CU main editor of German newspaper ‘Forverts’.
16:16:55 Swish pan to airport & people boarding airplane, reporters interview passengers, little kid answers reporter’s question. Ext new passenger plane IL-18 from various angles, interior w/ pilots in cockpit, shot from plane to clouds, passengers, air hostess offers newspapers, little baby sits on passenger’s seat, another sleeps in mother’s arms; shot from plane over city near Black sea, plane lands, people exit the plane.
16:18:02 Swish pan to Uzbekistan spring, blossoming trees, people walk thru blossoming apple orchard to new art museum. CU people look at the paintings.
16:18:49 CU Fishing Collective’s leader & others pull out fishing nets full w/ fish. CU sturgeons. Men on boat lay the fishnets, fishermen pull out huge fish, all smile, pose w/ enormous fish in their arms.
16:19:39 “Bolshoi Theater Ballet in USA” See next card for Pt. 2 of 2.
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Russian News of The Day 1959 #17 April Pt. 1 of 2 “Lenin’s 89th birthday” CU Lenin’s portrait. Celebration at the ornate Bolshoi Theater hall, large Lenin sculpture on stage, audience give standing applause to Soviet VIPs coming on stage incl. Mikoyan, Suslov & others. Lenin’s Guard veterans also on stage. At microphone Comrade Kirichenko introduces Brezhnev who speaks. Various shots of audience. Fragment of Brezhnev’s speech (SOF) tells how all the communist party’s & working people’s achievements lead back to the great Lenin. Applause, says to follow Marxism's & Leninism’s lead to the great victory of Communism, public & VIPs applaud. 16:13:20 “Lenin Prize Winners” Machine tool (?) factory, big machinery, 3 engineers are Lenin’ Prize winners for their invention of new machine. CU engineers tell (SOF) about the new machines; the new machinery in factory hall; CU automatic machinery supervised by only 2 workers. 16:14:39 Moscow monument of the famous Russian writer & poet Vladimir Mayakovski. CU statue, people take pictures, put flowers. CU sculptor Alexander Kipalnikov(?) in his workshop w/ Lenin statue behind him, speaks (SoF), he’s glad that people like his statue of Mayakovski on which he worked for many years & for which he was awarded w/ a Lenin prize. CU sculptor works on a statue, stands next to unfinished sculpture. 16:15:44 LS Kremlin. Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR Poleckis meets Ambassador of Iran M. Ansari. Ansari & Poleckis read their speeches & exchange papers. 16:16:21 Moscow airport, snowy evening, Soviet editors & journalists greet editor delegation from GDR. East German delegates shake hands w/ greeters. CU main editor of German newspaper ‘Forverts’. 16:16:55 Swish pan to airport & people boarding airplane, reporters interview passengers, little kid answers reporter’s question. Ext new passenger plane IL-18 from various angles, interior w/ pilots in cockpit, shot from plane to clouds, passengers, air hostess offers newspapers, little baby sits on passenger’s seat, another sleeps in mother’s arms; shot from plane over city near Black sea, plane lands, people exit the plane. 16:18:02 Swish pan to Uzbekistan spring, blossoming trees, people walk thru blossoming apple orchard to new art museum. CU people look at the paintings. 16:18:49 CU Fishing Collective’s leader & others pull out fishing nets full w/ fish. CU sturgeons. Men on boat lay the fishnets, fishermen pull out huge fish, all smile, pose w/ enormous fish in their arms. 16:19:39 “Bolshoi Theater Ballet in USA” See next card for Pt. 2 of 2. Communist; Communism; 1950s; Cold War; Russian Newsreel; Industry;