Montage from Moscow summit

Title

Montage from Moscow summit

Genre

Speech; Music

TX Date

2 Jun 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:47

Description

A montage of clips from the Moscow summit, which includes speech extracts from US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. All set to music of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet chosen to end a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet in front of President and Mrs Reagan on their last night in Moscow.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev

Keywords

USA; Great Britain; USSR; International relations; Political reform; International politics; Summits (meetings); Political leaders; Sergei Prokofiev; East West relations; Bolshoi Ballet

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