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In the Name of a Lofty Aim - Soviet Chinese Relations
Footage from Soviet-Chinese Friendship Society rally, high angle of the massive audience. A young Leonid Brezhnev speaking. Montage of various friendly rallies in USSR and China: Chinese welcoming Soviets and vice versa; Chinese children applauding, waving happily to the camera; ends with newsreel of Maoists protesting angrily outside Soviet embassy.
In the Name of a Lofty Aim - Vladimir Lenin
Soviet children learning Chinese language in school. Vladimir Lenin talking, superimposed over books he authored. Newspaper editorial he wrote befriending China in 1900. Passages of books he authored, the pages being flipped. Lenin speaking. Montage of the 1917 Russian Revolution (October Revolution: recreation of Bolsheviks usurping State power).
In the Name of a Lofty Aim - Chinese Protests
1920s footage of people in China protesting, marching.
In the Name of a Lofty Aim - Japan Invades China
Japan wages war on China, montage of Japanese forces invading & devasting the Chinese.
Monkey Leads The Band
Title credit. A boy works in a watercoloring book; illustrated creatures come to life with his brush strokes. First a jazz ensemble of identical, smiling rabbits play a song. The band however is soon disrupted by a monkey who pushes them off the stage and takes their instruments (a drum set, a trombone, a bass and a fiddle). The monkey distributes the instruments to his friends: a donkey, a goat and a bear. The new ensemble has no luck putting together a song, the monkey getting pushed about because of his bandmates' clumsiness.
Monkey Leads The Band
The animated band of animals try to make music again, only with similar results of ineptitude and clumsiness. The monkey goes berzerk and solos until his violin combusts. The animals fight, causing the boy to close the book; he opens it back up to happily find the rabbits back together jammin' out their swing song. Credits role interspersed with individual jammin' rabbits
Miracle Frost
Opening credits. Cut-out animation. Ships sailing on ocean. Quiet snowy Russian village, that is, until the village women begin to sing. Man falls from horse-drawn carriage, kids sledding on hill laugh at him. Man on boat watches the village go about their duties. Villagers construct house. The man on boat lands, meets with singing villagers.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Shot of lunar rover descending, flame blast from underside. Lunakhod lands on the moon's surface - all exterior shots of Lunakhod are of a model of the lunar rover on a fake lunar surface - these effects are about as good as those of cheap 50s/60s sci-fi, meanwhile this mock set up is interspersed with footage of Soviet scientist & engineers in a control room where the real lunakhod is controlled and photographic relays are viewed on a tv screen, from a tv image we see the surface of the moon. Rover rolls from lander. Rover opens solar battery supply.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Segment on the design of Lunakhod. An illustration (industrial design) of Lunakhod. Various prototypes of Lunakhod are tested in labs (these are the real things, full size and not models) some of which have tank treads; the narrator explains how the 8 wheel design was decided upon; illustration of one of the wheels shows how each wheel is driven by its own motor; an electric moon car.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Segment on the systems of Lunakhod. Footage of earth tests of the lunar rover components and animation are interspersed to explain: the solar power system (shots of solar cells & description of how solar energy works), the chasis (being put through moon-like conditions in remote area of Russia), the TV cameras/eyes, its system of remote control, the heating system (scientists working on thermal system; illustration of how heating systems works). Science and space exploration. Lunar drone.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Field and lab tests on Lunakhod: ground and moon-like environments; heat and pressure chambers. Shots of Lunakhod model in conjunction with shots of lunar map show the first day of the rover's travel. The scientific instruments aboard Lunakhod are explained with animation and footage of the rover on earth (x-ray telescope, spectrometer, soil penetrometer, angular reflector. EXT & INT shots of the Crimmean Obervatory: telescope and laser beam installation; animation of testing the distance between the earth and the moon by using laser beams.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Lunakhod's second day of operations on the moon is explained with the Lunakhod model, a map of the moon's surface, and footage of the Soviet control room where men decide and control Lunakhod's movements.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
Great shots of heat flames being expelled by the sun (red on black; solar winds?).Nice B&W shots of hurricane winds and rain blowing through coastal town in America; palm trees, boats, etc.. Animation and live footage is used to explain why studying the sun and it's solar effects on earth is more easily done on the atmosphereless moon surface. Animation of the earth's magnetic field. Shots of stratospheric balloon and then rocket being launched. The Lunakhod's third day is explained with the model and a map of the moon. Lunakhod model climbs crater.
Lunakhod #1: Vehicle to the Moon
A scientist explains the successes of the Lunakhod exploration. Photographs of the moon's surface. Credits roll.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Title screen in Russian "Soyuz - Apollo Link Up". Shots inside Yuri Gagarin's home, followed by photographs of Yuri and some of the first cosmonauts.Shots of rocket backing out of hangar, headed towards launchpad.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Moscow is abuzz with news of the joint Soviet - American flight. Shots of LEONID BREZHNEV and aides inside the Kremlin (if you try hard enough you can see Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in some shots). Shots of the Soyuz cosmonauts getting into a capsule during a press conference. Shots inside the international press room where reporters hack away at typewriters. Shots at press conference announcing the names of the Apollo-Soyuz astronauts. Shots of astronauts playing tennis, showing off fish catch.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Great LSs of rocket on launchpad, sun rising in BG. Portrait of Yuri Gagarin on wall.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Shot of engineers near TV; CU TV screen with image of rocket on launchpad. Shots of Soviet astronauts take part in some last minute health (medical) examinations & tests. Shots of rocket on launchpad. Astronauts in spacesuits stand on tarmac, announce to reporters they are ready to depart, then take elevator up launchpad. Quick profiles of two astronauts in which depict their previous space accomplishments. Some interesting illustrations of astronauts in space.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Good footage of Soviet Soyuz rocket taking off (blast off, launch). Footage of American Apollo rocket blast off with brief profiles of astronauts aboard; men working in control room at Cosmodrome (?) at Cape Canaveral. NASA. People on telephones, watching the events unfold on their television screens.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Footage of the Apollo-Soyuz link-up in orbit: astronauts open a porthole that connects their ships, they meet and shake hands; cosmonaut joins two halfs of commemorative coin; subjective POV shots of earth; astronauts in capsule. EST shots of New York City (skyline, Empire State Building; high angle) and Moscow. TLSs capsule descending to earth, parachute open; Russian astronauts receive a warm welcome home. High angle EST shot of Central Park, NYC. American astronauts later come down in the ocean (splashdown) and are picked up by helicopter; capsule is retreived. LS World Trade Center, NYC.
Soyuz & Apollo: Link Up In Space
Press conference with the Soviet cosmonauts (who speak both Russian and English) interspersed with images of the joined ships in space and the astronauts all together on earth; shots of reporters taking notes, pictures. Crowds honor the astronauts at an outdoor ceremony in Moscow.
1957 To 1967: Decade Of The Space Age
Title card in Russian "A Decade of the Space Age"; opening credits.
1957 To 1967: Decade Of The Space Age
Monument to the Conquerors of Space; a silver rocket atop a towering stone pedestal. Statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in front of monument, adult Russian male and female visitors walking around area. Haut and bas-reliefs at the base, depicting adult male and female Russian figures and dedicated to the space program.
1957 To 1967: Decade Of The Space Age
Sputnik I satellite. Sergei Korolev working on Sputnik I satellite. Clouds and orange-tinted sky. October 4, 1957 newsreel of the Sputnik I launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; R-7 Semyorka rocket lifting off, rises up into the sky. Animation of Sputnik's orbital course. Nose sphere being jettisoned, releasing Sputnik I. Animation of satellite rotating in space. Animation of radio waves tansmitting to Earth.