| Soviet Union - Friend of the Arab Nations | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1878 |
| Catalog #: | 527884 | |
| Clip Number: | 527884-9 | |
| Orginal Film: | ||
| Timecode: | 01:52:15 - 01:56:29 | |
| Location: | Soviet Union | |
| Year Shot: | 1970 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: School-age child BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Crying EDUCATION & SCHOOLS: Lecture Halls EDUCATION & SCHOOLS: Universities ENGINEERING: Dams ENGINEERING: Docks & Piers LOCATIONS/ASIA: Uzbekistan (USSR) PERSONALITIES: Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich SPACE EXPLORATION: Astronauts / Cosmonauts SPACE EXPLORATION: Exhibitions SPACE EXPLORATION: USSR TRANSPORTATION: Traffic Scenes TRANSPORTATION/MASS TRANSIT: Trolleys & Trams & Street Cars | |
| Description: | Desert area with scattered palms. Desert with sand dunes in bg. Aswan Dam. Men working with hydro-electric equipment. Electric towers. Large explosion (very dramatic). Water rushing down hill, men cheering, clapping, celebrating. Water rushing through break, flowing over. Crowds of people cheering. Three dump trucks dumping boulders at the same time. Two older men looking over model of Euphrates hydro-electric dam, water rushing from model dam. Drawings, illustrations of astronauts and space by Russian Astronaut Alexi Leonov. People walking about art gallery. MCU Alexi Leonov. Nice shot as doors open to courtyard of ancient soviet city Samarkand in Uzbekistan. Tourists walking behind gates, CU man wearing sunglasses. Overhead shot of men dressed in traditional muslim clothing exiting Bibi-Khanym Mosque, tourists exit down steps on at a time. MS of muslim man in traditional clothing standing in courtyard. Pan down Bibi-Khanym mosque. Aerial of Alabaster mosque in Cairo. Group of people walking outside. The Temple of Ramses II. Tourists taking pictures. The Great Sphinx of Giza. Soviet Naval ship. Navy sailors lined up aboard ship. WS port Said. Man boarding ship with bouquet of flowers, captain greeting him, shaking hand. Overhead shot of sailors looking at magazines with arab students. Military parade, canons, missiles, tanks. CU young boy student reciting arab poem. (translation) "Come quickly, let's take a walk in the garden and romp on the green and very colored lawn and pick bouquets of fragrant roses and basils. We'll gather fruit, ripe peaches and pomegranates, racing through the orchard we'll romp about and become tempered, then after gathering strength and energy we'll tackle studies again." | |
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