| Soviet Elections | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tape Master: | 1493 | |
| Catalog #: | 506278 | |
| Clip Number: | 506278-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-DFS-16-019 | |
| Timecode: | 02:18:59 - 02:19:39 | |
| Location: | Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Misc LOCATIONS/ASIA: Russia (USSR), Moscow PERSONALITIES: Khrushchev, Nikita POLITICS: Political Party, Communist POLITICS: Soviet Union | |
| Description: | Master 1493 - Tape 2 Panning TLS Soviet citizenry ascending steps leading to government building, passing beneath ubiquitous portrait of Vladimir Lenin. TLS Soviet people filing through hall, bust of Lenin in FG. MS First Secretary of the Communist Party NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV smiling at polling place. CU pencil of registrar in ledger, finding name & traveling right, writing in column. MS Soviet Premier NIKOLAY BULGANIN reviewing papers at polling place. MS voting registrar working at desk on election day, pan left to Nikita Khrushchev receiving paper. MS boy aiming, focusing still camera. VO: "... Moscow last week as Soviet citizens went to the polls. It was then that the new deputies were elected to the Supreme Soviet. And it is these deputies who made the nominations in which Premier Bulganin was all but ignored. Bulganin's star began to decline last June." | |
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