| Peace For Europe | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 609 |
| Catalog #: | 313394 | |
| Clip Number: | 313394-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PREMIERE 4466 | |
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| Location: | N/A | |
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| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Treaties & Pacts | |
| Description: | "Europe, with its vast art collections and history, has been free of war for over four decades now. The museums represent vast treasures, and are huge windows of history. The 1975 Helsinki Confrerence was called by the Soviet Union, and many agreements were signed which became the basis of the Soviet Union's foreign policy. However, the treaty was not ratified by the U.S. Congress. The Soviet Union is committed to the letter and spirit of the Helsinki agreement, and the people of the country back their government in having a moratorium on nuclear testing, cutbacks on medium range missiles, full ban on space weapons. War is not acceptable; peace is man's natural state." (01:30:18) Introductory credits, "Peace for Europe" in Russian, opens to map of Europe, various shots of people out and about strolling in Eastern European cities and towns (01:32:16) Footage of protests, armaments, soldiers etc all over Europe, making it a potential "powder keg", images of Europe's art treasures - narrator says that different European cities are marked on NATO maps as places for future military operations (01:34:08) Nice history of European war told with museum exhibits of weapons (swords, muskets, canons, armor) and illustrations - sound track included with weapon sounds, by the 20 the century war footage replaces the museum exhibits (WW I & II) (01:35:30) Images of the Vienna Congress, the peace makers of Versailles and Munich, brief footage of Germany's aggressive war and the carnage and destruction left in its wake, Soviets put flowers on World War II memorial, other war memorials are shown (01:38:20) Footage of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Helsinki - detentes are signed by world leaders, among them GERALD FORD, other interanational forums are shown at which the Soviet Union pushed further detentes that the narrator reports the United States rejected (01:42:45) Large cranes move huge gas line pipes from a ship to the land, these pipes were part of a gas for pipes agreement worked out between the Soviet Union and other European countries, pipes are hauled by a truck across snowy landscape, Soviet pipeline fields, workers turn a giant valve on a pipeline (01:43:44) Trade agreements, a Frenchman is interviewed about his trade agreement signing (01:45:00) History of famous trade routes told with pictures, travelers arriving and site seeing in the Soviet Union, attending film, music, and art events (01:46:48) Segment on foreign journalism, international reporters shown getting the hot story, interviews with men about why they buy foreign periodicals, shots of a book store where foreign books are on the shelves, the Moscow book fair (01:49:45) Images of historic scientific equipment leads up to the Vega Space Unit, a space craft designed by a coalition of different countries including the Soviet Union to observe Venus and Haley's comet, shots of the craft and scientists at computers (01:51:10) Images of Nasa, ground crews at computers, the space shuttle, images of Star Wars defense plan, computer graphics of a satellite destroying warheads above earth, CASPER WEINBERGER and RONALD REAGAN are shown as narrator says SDI is an offensive weapon, images of international protest against American weapons program (01:53:35) MIKHAIL GORBACHEV visits France, Gorbachev meets with various French high officials, shots of Paris (01:54:35) Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Geneva, shots of Geneva, shots the two leaders talking and signing agreements (01:56:00) Soviet Union looks toward peace, students celebrate peace day in grade school, people pay respects to the dead at World War II memorial, smiling faces (01:57:15) Title screen "Peace for Europe" in Russian, Credits role | |
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