Moscow Sir Laurence Olivier Takes A Company Of Renowned Actors To Moscow To Perform Othello Footage

MOSCOW Sir Laurence Olivier takes a company of renowned actors to Moscow to perform Othello.
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	Catalog #:	37138
	Clip Number:	37138-3
	Orginal Film:	CP 569
	Timecode:	01:05:41 - 01:09:42
	Location:	London and Moscow, U.S.S.R., Russia.
	Year Shot:	1965 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	LANDMARKS: misc. LOCATIONS/ASIA: Russia (USSR), Moscow PERSONALITIES: Olivier, Laurence SCENICS: Urban
	Description:	M/S of the three actors looking at the Space Race Memorial - tilt up impressive monument to cosmonauts. L/S of memorial. Various shots of massive big wheel in the main recreation park ( that according to narrator ; "falls short of London's Battersea Park"). LS From big wheel of people walking round in recreation ground. LS Big wheel (ferris wheel). LS People standing around bottom of big wheel camera pans up to show big wheel. LS Trams going along road camera pans up to modern flats and across to show more flats. L/S of a wide street lined by vast blocks of flats. Various point of view shots, from a moving car, of modern Moscow - new sky scrapers, impressive university buildings. LS Hotel (Large) CU Man driving car. LS Passing large building. LS Tracking shot from car as it goes along street. LS People buying drinks at automatic vending machine. MS Telephones man goes into kiosk. CU Coin being put into telephone and number being dialled. Various shots of a party of actors and actresses looking around inside the Kremlin. LS Actors walking towards camera they stop and look up. LS Domed building. MS Actors looking up. LS Actors walking up steps. MS Russian policemen standing outside British Embassy. LS Actors walking up steps of Embassy. LS British Consul camera C/U of a guard outside the British Embassy, Sir Laurence Olivier and wife, Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright, are seen arriving for a reception. M/S of Sir L. and wife shaking hands with the ambassador. Various shots of actors chatting under a portrait of the Queen at Embassy party; LS People gathered on British Embassy. LS Lawrence Olivier sitting with Consul at piano watched by the ambassador. Various shots of the circus, LS Clown playing trobone in circus ring. CU Child. LS Clown playing trumpet with woman playing trombone at 735 woman nudges clown as she extends arm of trombone. CU Spectators clapping Miles Malleson with them. LS Dog walking on hind-legs woman standing in F.G. MS Spectators. LS Woman standing in wheel cartwheeling round ring. CU Circus programme. C/U of the Circus programme. C/U of Cyrillic poster advertising Brit production of Othello. Various shots of the Kremlin, dubbed over with dialogue from the play. LS Kremlin. LS Domes. LS Wall of Kremlin. LS Dome montage. LS Actors taking curtain call M/S of Billie Whitelaw and a 'blacked up' Olivier taking a bow on stage. Olivier pics up flowers and gives them to Billie.