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THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
CU scrolling ticker at New York Stock Exchange trading floor, rack focus on traders on floor of NYSE; VO discusses the power of western exchange; TLS/MSs of traders on Stock Exchange floor making hand signals.
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
CUs of rural Africa
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
African American church service with congregation singing. Reverend Jesse Jackson walks out to great support and takes the pulpit to campaign for President of the United States. Operation PUSH banner on the pulpit. Jesse Jackson's passionate speech. African American men and women standing, smiling, applauding, cheering him on. "There is a still, small voice and it walks with me. It talks with me. It tells me - I'm his own. Yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for Thou art with me. The Lord is my life. March on. March on. Never let them break your spirit. You see there is a power beyond that we've got. And Vrdolyak can't stop it. And Herod can't stop it. And Nebucanezar can't stop it. And Reagan can't stop it. Don't you know that we got Martin King s birthday while Reagan was President. Don't you know that we ran Duvalier out of Haiti while Reagan was President. Don't you know we ran Marcos out of the Philippines while Reagan was President. Don't you know we're gonna run Botha out of South Africa and Reagan out of Washington. It won't be long."
THE AFRICANS: Global Africa
African American police officers in Chicago, standing on parade route on the South Side. Reverend Jesse Jackson at Operation PUSH event. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington riding in car to campaign for African American female alderman candidate, greeting supporters. Harold Washington walking the beat, shaking hands with African American adults & children.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT1
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COLOR: George Bush, Remarks at the Republican Party Labor Day Picnic in Waukesha, Wisconsin, September 7, 1992. GV President GEORGE BUSH SR. (George Herbert Walker Bush) speaking at rally while on campaign trail, 1992 many people thought Harry Truman would lose in 1948. But he said what was on his mind. He didn't worry about the press. And he never lost faith in the United States of America. And I stand before you with the same passion and that same faith.
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MS President Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton) speaking at Democratic rally on campaign trail in 1992, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON watching on. Can you believe that a man with this kind of record would be going around the country with a straight face, comparing himself to Harry Truman?
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B&W ARCHIVAL: LS/MSs street parade for the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. MS delegates entering hall. LS hall packed with delegates. MS white male delegate holding sign that reads "We are MILD about Harry".
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COLOR: shot of former House Speaker TIP O'NEILL recalling the 1948 convention, the horrible heat in Philadelphia.
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Traditional Sports Of The Soviet Peoples
"Is it hard to imagine that possibly the precursor of polo, a game for the wealthy, may be goat-carcass throwing, where teams of players on horseback throw a very heavy goat carcass through the opponents' goal to score? This and other unusual games are highlighted in this film. In the Soviet Union there are thirty types of wrestling including the popular bareback wrestling in the snow as practiced by the people of the north. Georgian caspar fencing, the eagle dance, archery, sleigh jumping, and other ancient and traditional sports are featured to make a rather engrossing film."Needless to say, this film is a goldmine for wacky, campy sports. The bareback snow wrestling has to be seen to be believed.
Traditional Sports Of The Soviet Peoples
Opening Montage: high angle wide LS of an outdoor track and field stadium as Soviet athletes walk the track (not Olympic footage); great tight LS of the head of the Soviet athlete march, accompanied by a large bronze-colored bannerof the infamous hammer and sickle insignia; LS's of a professional indoor men's soccer game; MS of a man and a woman swimming in an indoor pool; MS's of archers pulling bows; MS's of men wrestling.
The Vyborg District
This film is Pt. 3 of the Trilogy "Maxim's Youth" Music by Shostakovitch. A fictional account of Lenin's rise to power, the Bolshevik Revolution and the dawn of Communist/ Socialist Soviet Union. Therefore, all significant names (Lenin, Trotsky, etc) are portrayed by endeared actors and actresses. Dialogue in Russian, subtitles in English. A LENSFILM PRODUCTION... SCRIPT AND DIRECTION BY LEONID TAUBERG... MUSIC BY DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH... PHOTOGRAPHY BY A. MOSKVIN AND G. FILATOV...
The Vyborg District
Opening Credits. MS of heavy-coated and big moustached Russian men standing and cheering in a large room, eventually tossing their furry hats into the air. Cut to MS of Lenin (actor) speaking to the men after the 1917 Revolution. They applaud his very breath, hanging eagerly upon his fiery rhetoric.
The Great Exploit
"Neville Chamberlain tells the world he has sealed the peace at Munich. But the bombs soon fell on London, the Nazis advanced as they chose, and soon nearly all of Europe was lost. Then they attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941--backed by 190 divisions and 5,500,000 men. This film covers the defense of Moscow; victory at Stalingrad; the 900 day siege of Leningrad; decisive tank battles at the Kursk bulge; the movement East to liberate Romania and Yugoslavia and to free Poland. Then the Normandy invasion of 1944, last victories in Berlin, and V-Day in Moscow, London, Paris, and New York." Victory, V-E Day. World War Two. Shot by 236 Soviet cameramen.
The Great Exploit
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USSR: Men Of The Earth And Sky - Experimental jets and helicopters
USSR: Men Of The Earth And Sky - Experimental jets and helicopters (00:31:35) Narrator moves up to being a jet test pilot, photographs of him at this time, footage of a mission in which he was to fire out a dummy in a test seat from a flying jet, the dummy only comes out part way blocking his field of vision in the cockpit, he is forced to blindly land the jet (00:33:38) More old photographs of the narrator, more footage of the helicopter trip to Paris - they leave Russia, cross Denmark, land at some aero-club, a crowd greets them curious to see the strange helicopter the body of which stands on two very tall legs (00:36:24) Narrator recalls testing helicopters in the Crimea - a view from a car windshield driving toward the Crimea airstrip, the narrator takes part in a test of a new safety feature on a helicopter where the helicopter while in flight has its blades blown off to allow for the safe evacuation of the pilot (without him getting caught in the blades), some dramatic footage of this test (00:39:50) More old photos of the narrator as a test pilot, narrator and other test pilots walk along the runway to their respective jets, narrator takes off with another pilot in an experimental jet with a funny pointy coned front, another experimental plane is shown, this one looks like a bombing jet that has a glass nose (00:42:16) The helicopters continue to travel, now over the water and clouds (00:43:00) Footage of the narrator participating in tests on weightlessness, he and a co-pilot create a gravity-less situation by going up and down in a large passenger plane, in their tests they carry mice and rabbits in cages who go spastically flying into weightlessness and a cat who scurries about crazily trying to get his footing, a man also gives zero-g a shot with much less amusing results (00:44:38) Photographs of narrator with the first Soviet astronauts including YURI GAGARIN (00:45:41) Narrator tests out wacky flying machine he calls a vertical riser (kind of a helicopter without a propeller) (00:47:50) Narrator brings in a noseless jet that seems to hover to a landing, more photographs of the narrator - one of them with his family (00:48:55) Helicopters reach Paris, footage of the airshow: giant Russian helicopters with as much passenger space as a good sized plane - one helicopter is has very long legs that allow it to stradle and carry large cargo (it airlifts a full size bus), another helicopter demonstrates its fire fighting capabilities by emptying a large steam of water on the ground, Gagarin sign autographs for a crowd, jets from countries around the world are shown on the runway then flying across the sky - doing spins, flying in formation with long thick jet streams trailing behind them (00:53:34) An Italian jet crashes and kills pilot and 7 others, unfortunately the footage is interspersed with dramatic photos of the narrator (00:54:43) Jets fly in formation, one jet flies upside down over another and the pilots from their cockpits exchange a smile (00:55:25) Narrator and his Soviet helicopter crew are commissioned to do two jobs in Swizterland: the first is installing large, heavy electrical poles - the helicopters lower the poles into holes in the ground, the second is a place small house on a cliff in the mountains, there is no actual footage of this, just the narrator describing the operation with photographs and other footage thrown together (00:58:15) Nifty footage from the windshield of a car of driving through a tunnel carved in the side of a rocky cliff that borders a large body of water (00:58:30) Segment on fighting a forest fire in France, large Soviet helicopters are filled with water which they drop over tremendous fierce flames - the footage of the fire battle is interspersed with photographs of the narrator and his aernautic associates, this is done in a dramatic fashion to build up to the narrrator's explanation that one of the Soviet helicopters went down in the forest flames (00:01:44) Close up of spinning radar dish, the narrator straps into a jet and takes off, his afterburner is still visible in a long shot of his take off from the opposite end of the runway, the afterburner leaves the screen as the jet ascends into the sky (00:03:20) End credit
A Musical Rainbow
"This is a most entertaining film of the Soviet pop scene. Various pop groups and soloists entertain us with appearances from Georgian groups playing music that is influenced by rhythm and blues; Estonia's country music, outfitted with traditional western garb and strumming on fiddles and banjoes; a group from Turkmenia with a sound derived from a combination of native music and Salsa. Enjoy yourself. And you will enjoy this film--footage of some of the world's worst and weirdest late-1970s musical groups. Kitsch, camp, wacky.
A Musical Rainbow
Opening Credits.
Darkness Over China
"These are newsreel shots taken in China, with emphasis on the Great Cultural Revolution. The forces that are creating hatred against the Soviet Union are brought to light. Was China to follow the precepts of Marx and Lenin, or the precepts of Maoism? Even though the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries aided China in building up its economy for the first ten years of its existence as a socialist state, all this is forgotten in the tumultuous turmoil created by Mao." Red China, Communist, Communism, Mao-Tse-Tung. A fascinating documentary/propaganda piece from a different perspective. Shedding a different light.
Darkness Over China
Opening credits (in Russian).
Babi Yar: Lessons Of History
1970s (?) Soviet (Ukranian) production about the Nazi atrocities at Babi Yar / Kiev during World War Two. Includes interviews with survivors and archival footage and stills. This is intercut w/ footage of neo-Nazis and other Fascist groups operating in the present (70s). Original summary: "This incredible and powerful documentary tells its grim tale graphically. Captured footage from the retreating Nazi troops sadly depicts the destruction of over 200,000 people murdered in the most atrocious ways. They were trade unionists, Communists, Jews, children, old people, women. They were a diverse group commonly linked by the fact that they lived on Soviet soil and were principally anti-fascist. They were gassed, hanged, machine-gunned and killed with buzz-saws by the Nazis, who filmed it all and then simply pushed all the bodies in the large Ukrainian ravine, Babi Yar."