Truth Of The Newspaper Pravda Footage

Truth Of The Newspaper Pravda
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	Catalog #:	448206
	Clip Number:	448206-1
	Orginal Film:	PREMIERE 5109
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	Location:	USSR
	Year Shot:	1985 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	JOURNALISM: Newspaper
	Description:	"Follow a day in the life of the people who put out Pravda. Learn about its origins including its most famous correspondent. V.I. Lenin, who wrote some 1,000 articles. Learn about the endless flow of letters, that the paper recives from its readers regarding every issue under the sun. Ten million copies are printed." Propaganda, journalism, newspaper. 01:20:01:- EST shot of the Pravda Publishing building in Moscow. MS's of an editorial board meeting. MS's of people perusing through the racks of an outdoor newstand; CU of the Pravda paper; CU's of newspapers on display. MS of the editor in chief talking to the camera about the paper's distinction, its uniqueness. Still of VLADIMIR LENIN reading an issue of Pravda. 01:24:36:- ECU's of first issue of Pravda, circa May 1912. INT shots of the original office. B&W newsreel of the Five Year Program in action following the Revolution of 1917: MS's and CU's of happy Socialists sewing, coal mining, collective farming, working in factories, and so on. B&W newsreel of Soviet participation in World War Two: LS's and MS's of ground troops in advancing, heavy artillery firing, and war correspondents reporting from the field (using typewriters; ends with MS of Soviet soldiers reading the paper while away from the front). 01:26:04:- Travelling shot into the department that processes the letters to the editor; CU of them opening the mail, reading it. B&W CU's of children writing at their desks, MS of a boy filing a slab of metal as a teacher watches closely. INT shot of the USSR Supreme Soviet in discussions. MS of a journalist taking a seamstress' photo, then CU of him writing in a notepad. More CU's and MS's of the letters to the editor dept processing the mail. Excellent montage of four men building a memorial well in a remote field, honoring the memories of the friends they lost during the war, ending with CU of the article written about it in Pravda. 01:29:25:- CU of Pravda article about the Baltic shipyard in Leningrad. B&W shots of a freighter being christened, then made seaworthy as a crowd celebrates. Cut to color montage of a reporter visiting an employee of a nuclear powered freighter at the Baltic shipyard; editor wanted a story about Socialist emulation; nice CU of the journalist writing in a notepad. Cut to B&W montage of journalists getting stories from the industrial front, whether it be at stockyards, foundries, Siberian oil pipelines, construction, railyards, and so on. 01:31:37:- MS's of a secretiariat meeting, several folks trying to arrange the next issue. CU of a wire printing news flashes; MS of woman tearing the sheet from the typewriter-like machine; MS of a room full of the wires; MS of the woman handing a man the news flash. CU of several test sheets on a wall, the front page having space open for a story about an Indian astronaut joining 2 Soviet cosmonauts (MS and CU of the men making their way to the space capsule). MS's of famous Soviet ballerinas, Bloshoi directors and poets. A journalist is sent to a national bicycling competition: tight LS's of cyclists running a heat. CU of a man writing; MS of editors working at the office. CU of a telephone switchboard, followed by MS of Pravda's international telephone operator at work. CU of a woman typing, ECU of the keys imprinting. More CU's of the phone operator at work. 01:36:37:- B&W newsreel of nuclear arms protesters in England physically blocking a road so a caravan couldn't pass; bobbies arrest them. Color newsreel of people protesting against the proliferation of American nuclear weapons in Western Europe (peaceful and well-attended march). Montage of a Soviet peace rally in Moscow. MS's and CU's of typesetters working in the production hall. CU of a cup of tea, MS of man lifting it while reading paper. MS of a man in the printing room, opening up a first edition; nice CU's of finished papers travelling on assembly line. EXT shots of Moscow at night.