The Riddle of the Kremlin

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1482A

Date Released

31 Oct 1957

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3 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Riddle of the Kremlin. DESCRIPTION: Recent news from Moscow reminds us of the Churchillian phase that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But if we look back at Russian history, it may help us to guess the riddle of the Kremlin today. SHOTLIST: Library Compilation GV Moscow. GV Kremlin & Moskva River. GV Kremlin from Red Square. GV Tsar Nicholas II, army uniform with family & entourage, he walks away followed by his daughters. Still. Pan slaughter in pre-revolutionary Russia. CU Lenin seated with cat. CU Stalin. Sequence: Russian fighting during World War II. MS Marshal Zhukov shakes hands with General Montgomery. MCU General Eisenhower. MS Monty, Eisenhower & Zhukov. GV crowds filing through Red Square to see Stalin lying-in-state (x2). Still Stalin on bier. MS Molotov & Malenkov. CU Khrushchev & Bulganin in India. MS Indian crowd. MS Khrushchev & Bulganin wave from plane steps. Sequence: Bulganin & Khrushchev’s visit to England. GV street scenes in Poland (x2). GV Gomulka. TS crowds (x2). TS Budapest. Sequence: Hungarian Uprising. GV combine harvesters in Russia. MS assembly line in factory. CU Khrushchev. Sequence: Sputnik. CU Zhukov (x2). MS Zhukov meeting Madame Broz & Tito. CU Zhukov. TS Red Army marches through Red Square. MS ditto. MS Khrushchev and others on Lenin’s Tomb. MCU massed army ranks. TS tanks through Red Square. LAS planes overhead. Sequence: crowds waving. TS Red Square parade.

Keywords

Royalty; Commemorations; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Displays; Aviation; Foreign relations; Agriculture; Death; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Ceremonies; Space; Crime; War and conflict; Animals; Military; Funerals; History and archaeology

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Card file number

72023A

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

468

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