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1987 - Color, President Reagan: Welcoming Gorbachev w/ Remarks. 08Dec87

Reel Number: 250164-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1987

Country: USA,USSR

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 16:28:51

TC Ends: 16:38:13

Duration: 00:09:22

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1987 - Color, President Reagan: Welcoming Gorbachev w/ Remarks. 08Dec87 Marine Honor Guard; buglers on balcony play Ruffles & Flourishes; tilt down to President & Mrs Reagan (in fur coat) out on red carpet, wait. Marine band plays. 16:30:40 Limousine arrives w/ Gorbachev & translator, handshaking, Raisa joins them. Walk over to Vice-President Bush & wife, other VIPS & introductions. Reagan & Gorbachev onto viewing platform to applause. 16:32:31 Artillery salute fired. LS assembled military & guests while American anthem is played. 16:33:54 Fife & drum corpe in Revolutionary uniforms march past. LS from balcony. Honor Guard perform. 16:35:34 Reagan speaks shot from behind but sound poor & echoes - not useful. 16:36:39 Shot from in front w/ sound usable: “Today we will take a giant step in that direction by signing an historic treaty that will rid the world of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons. (Russian translation). And we've got something to show them. And over the next few days, it is my hope that progress will be made toward achieving another agreement that will lead to the cutting in half of our strategic nuclear arsenals. (Russian translation) 16:37:20 “Well, during the Second World War a Soviet General, later Marshall Chuikov, a front-line commander liked to tell the story of a soldier who said he had captured a bear, and he was asked to bring it along. "I can't," replied the soldier, "the bear won't let me." (Russian translation). General Secretary Gorbachev, like the soldier in Marshall Chuikov's story, our peoples for too long have been both the masters and the captives of a deadly arms race. (Russian translation) (film edited). Crowd shots. 16:38:09 “When leaders of both sides have no illusions, talk with candor (abrupt end). Diplomatic Speeches; Cold War Ending; Greetings; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Negotiations; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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