1950 - USSR Newsreel 221075-01 | Footage Farm

For broadcast quality material of this reel or to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk [1950 - USSR Newsreel: Moscow Subway 15th Anniversary; Tajikistan; Chinese Visit USSR; May Day in China] Intertitle. Moscow Metro - exterior entrance of newly-built station w/ pedestrians. 06:00:13 Flashback to tunnel construction work on Metro 15 / fifteen years earlier; cribbing, workers drilling, cribbing & removing material. 06:01:00 Montage: POV into finished station, people waiting on platform, descending escalators, in hallways & boarding trains; grand marble lobbies. Probably first part of new Koltsevaya ring line. 06:01:52 Intertitle. Tajikistan mountains, sheep & goats on hillside & in valley; CUs herders / farmers w/ sheep, CU wool; shearing on mountainsides; wool loaded on truck w/ camel caravan behind. Truck leaving. 06:03:05 Intertitle. Leningrad, High Angle across city; delegation of Chinese workers view statue of Lenin, take notes, board & on bus thru city; entrance sign & interior touring leather factory to applause; Mao badge pinned on worker - visitors hug workers. MCUs. 06:04:50 Intertitle: May Day parade in Beijing. LS from behind & above reviewing stand w/ marchers passing in rain; MS HA carrying large poster of Chairman Mao, marchers cheer w/ raised fists. 06:05:18 MS LA MS of Mao waving, MS military on stand waving; reviews parade. Crowds cheering & clapping. MS / MCUs. Huge flags carried. Mao Tse Tung; Premier Zhou Enlai & Chinese & Soviet VIPs watching, CUs. Schoolchildren in 04May Parade of Youth. Posters of Mao Tse Tung, & Stalin carried. 06:06:48 The End. Public Transportation; Farming / Agriculture; USSR; Communism; Holidays; Celebrations; Awards; Diplomacy; Diplomats; 1950s; Political Friendship; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk