USSR - USA (1974)

Washington D.C. – long shot, panorama.

June 18, 1973. Arrival of L.I. Brezhnev in Washington; L.I. Brezhnev gets out of the car; US President R. Nixon greets him; people greet; cameramen are filming; L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon walk to the podium – long shot, medium shot.

Conversation between L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon in the White House – close-ups.

American newsreel from the 1930s.

Poor neighborhood of New York – long shots.

Unemployed people sitting – medium shots, close-ups.

Money factory, workshop where banknotes are printed – long shot, medium shot.

A female worker counts sheets of uncut banknotes – close-up.

A man signs banknotes; a man receives a wad of banknotes; hands hold money, count money – medium shot, close-up.

A stopped plant – long shot.

Queues at the labor exchange; people at the exchange window – long shot, medium shot.

The White House – general, medium shots Pre-election demonstrations in the USA, people carry portraits of presidential candidate F. Roosevelt – general shot. F. Roosevelt addresses voters (synchronously) – medium shot.

Presidential elections – general shots. F. Roosevelt drives by in a car – medium, close-ups.

May Day demonstrations in US cities; a speaker speaks, calling for the establishment of relations with the Soviet Union – general, medium shots. F. Roosevelt sits at his desk – medium shot.

Cartoon: newspaper. F. Roosevelt’s address to the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR M.I. Kalinin with a proposal to establish diplomatic relations between the USSR and the USA; M.I. Kalinin’s reply in the newspaper – close-ups.

Airplanes fly over New York; a steamship at sea – general shots.

USSR People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs M.M. Litvinov, who has arrived in the USA to establish diplomatic relations, descends the steps of the plane; M.M. passes by.

Litvinov; the people greet him – medium, close-up M. Litvinov drives by in the President’s car, accompanied by an escort of motorcyclists – wide shot.

Portraits of M. Litvinov and F. Roosevelt in an American newspaper; portrait of the first USSR Ambassador to the USA Troyanovsky – close-ups.

Troyanovsky delivers a speech at a reception (simultaneously in Russian) – close-up.

Moscow – wide shot.

Arrival of the US Ambassador to the USSR Bullitt to the Kremlin; Bullitt at a reception with M.I. Kalinin – medium, close-up.

Construction sites of the first five-year plans – the Kuznetsk blast furnace, the first smelting; an excavator digs a pit; workers assembling the first Soviet automobiles; a tractor; workers at their machines; smiling faces of the workers – medium, close-up.

One of the seaports of the USSR – wide shot, panorama.

Unloading steamships from America; names of companies on the boxes: Ford, General Motors, Caterpillar – medium, wide shots.

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station dam – general plan, panorama.

A rally at the construction of the dam; M.I. Kalinin speaks at the rally, names the workers and engineering personnel who distinguished themselves during the construction and were awarded government prizes: Winter, Mikhailov, Hugh Krue Cooper (American engineer), (synchronously) – general plan.

Workers applaud – general, medium shots.

American engineer Hugh Crewe Cooper speaks about the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (simultaneously in English) – close-up.

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam – general panorama.

Parade of athletes and demonstration on Red Square in the pre-war year – general shot.

New York – general shot.

Air raid disciplinary action in New York, people running down the street; cars driving by; police directing people to a bomb shelter; crowd of people on the street; empty street – general shots.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Moscow in winter 1941, Kremlin – general shot.

Airplanes over Moscow; sentry on the roof of a building near an anti-aircraft gun – general shots.

People getting off a trolleybus and heading to bomb shelters and the metro; people on an escalator in the metro.

Adults and children sleeping in the metro – medium, general, close-ups.

Anti-aircraft guns firing at an airplane; an airplane over Moscow; incendiary bombs falling on the roof; The house is burning; a wounded man is carried on a stretcher; a woman is crying – general, medium, close-up.

American writer Erskine Caldwell, who is in Moscow in the winter of 1941, is speaking (synchronously) – close-up.

Troops, tanks, and horse-drawn carts are passing along a city street – general, medium shots.

New York, the Capitol – general shot.

US President F. Roosevelt delivers a speech in Parliament on June 24, 1941, with a statement about aid to the USSR – medium, general shots.

Correspondents in the hall – general shot.

Ships in an American port; loading of airplanes, vehicles, boxes of shells and food for the Soviet Union – general shots.

A convoy of American ships in the ocean; an escort aircraft above the convoy; Soviet ships guarding the convoy; Soviet sailors are fighting enemy aircraft; an aircraft falls into the water; sailors are on the deck of a Soviet ship – general, medium shots.

The American flag on the mast of a ship – close-up, medium shots.

Unloading American ships in a Soviet port – general, medium, close-up.

A platform with guns and shells passes by – general shot.

Military action at the front – a soldier loads a cannon, the command "Fire" is given, the cannon fires – close-ups.

Wounded soldiers are carried in; soldiers run to the attack; a battle on the streets of Stalingrad; buildings explode; houses burn; tanks drive through the city; soldiers wave a red flag from the balcony – general shots.

A meeting of soldiers from two fronts in Stalingrad, soldiers embrace – general shots, panorama.

American newsreel of 1944: An airplane lands at the airfield; the new USSR Ambassador to the USA A.A. Gromyko descends the steps – general shots, panorama.

A meeting in Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, A.A. Gromyko and others are taking place – general, medium shots.

Representatives of the USSR, USA, England, France and China are sitting at the conference table, agreeing on the establishment of the United Nations – general, medium shot.

Rally in Madison Square Garden in New York – general shot. A.A. Gromyko is speaking (simultaneously in English) – general shot.

Deputy Secretary of State of the United States Edward Stetinnius is speaking – general shot.

Those present at the rally are applauding – general shot. E. Stetinnius shakes hands with A.A. Gromyko – general shot.

Meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe – medium shots.

Joint troop parade in Vienna, Soviet and American military leaders are passing by – medium shots, panorama.

Meeting of I.S. Konev with American military leader Bradley – medium shot. K.G. Zhukov greets D. Eisenhower, walks with him to the plane – medium shots, panorama.

Joint dinner for Soviet and American military leaders – long shot, panorama, medium shot, close-up.

American soldiers being awarded Soviet orders – medium shot, panorama.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall – close-up.

People at the tomb; women and children lay flowers; war veterans at the tomb – medium shot, close-up, panorama.

Newsreel May 1972. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall – general panorama.

US President R. Nixon lays a wreath at the tomb – general, medium, close-up.

New York – general shot.

Newsreel 1958-1959: Press photographers at a building in New York; Soviet actors N. Cherkasov and E. Bystritskaya get off a bus and enter the building – medium shot, panorama.

Posters for the film "The Cranes Are Flying" at a movie theater in New York – close-ups.

Americans greet the artists of the Moiseyev Ensemble, take autographs; the artists of the ensemble on the bus; the ensemble on the stage, the artists and I. Moiseyev bowing – general, medium shots.

Spectators applaud – general shot.

Queue for tickets to the Bolshoi Theater ballet – medium shots.

Ballet dancers bowing – general shot.

Portraits of artists on stage, panorama of American impresario Sol Hurok sitting at his desk; Sol Hurok giving an interview; approaches the window, examines various brochures lying on the windowsill – medium, close-up.

Artists of the Everyman Opera in Moscow, on the train station platform surrounded by Muscovites – medium, close-up.

An artist of the Everyman Opera troupe at the microphone: "Hello", "Thank you", laughter, jokes (synchronously) – medium, close-up.

Performance of the orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski in Moscow (synchronously) – medium shot.

American artist Rockwell Kent cutting the ribbon at the opening of an exhibition of his works in Moscow; R. Kent in the exhibition hall surrounded by visitors; paintings by R. Kent – medium, wide shot, close-up.

American pianist Van Cliburn performing at the Moscow Conservatory (synchronously) – medium, close-up.

The audience applauds, gives V. Cliburn flowers – general, close-up.

New York residents greet V. Cliburn; Cliburn drives in an open car along the streets of New York – general, medium shots.

Flags of the USSR and the USA on a building in New York – general shot.

Hall of the Soviet exhibition; visitors at the exhibition; Soviet aircraft at the exhibition; various machines in operation; Americans at the machines – general, medium shots.

Newsreel May 1972. Flags of the USSR and the USA at the Vnukovo airport – general shot.

Meeting of the US President R. Nixon at the airport – different shots.

The Kremlin – general shot.

Meeting and conversation between L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon in the Kremlin; A.N. Kosygin and N.V. Podgorny are present at the meeting – medium shots. L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon sign the treaty on the limitation of anti-ballistic missile systems and the temporary agreement between the USSR and the USA on certain measures in the area of limitation of strategic and offensive weapons – long and medium shots. L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon sign the document "

Basics of Relations between the USSR and the USA" – medium shots.

Meeting of the joint Soviet-American commission on trade issues – medium and long shots.

Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR N.S. Patolichev at the meeting of the commission – medium shot. N.S. Patolichev and the US representative sign agreements on trade between the USSR and the USA – medium and close-up shots.

The head of the Occidental Petroleum corporation, Armand Hammer, looks through business papers in his office; employees at work – close-up.

The emblem of A. Hammer’s company – close-up. A. Hammer gives a simultaneous interview about the conclusion of an agreement on Occidental Petroleum’s participation in the construction of a large industrial complex in the Kuibyshev region (synchronously in English) – medium shot.

Moscow – long shot.

In the Kremlin, A.N. Kosygin receives the chairman of the board of the largest US bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, David Rockefeller; talks with him – medium shot, long shot, panorama.

Various major construction sites of the USSR – construction of a dam; damming of a river; high-voltage power lines; the inscription “Zheleznogorsk”, explosions in quarries where ore is mined in an open-pit method; excavators and other construction and industrial units are working – close-up panorama, different shots.

Construction of industrial enterprises; oil rig; a gas flare is burning at the field; gas pipeline laying; blast furnace; cutting machine in a mine; plant construction; wheel of some unit – long shot, medium shot.

Washington residence of L.I. Brezhnev – long shot, panorama.

During his visit to the USA in July 1973, L.I. Brezhnev receives representatives of business circles in his residence and talks with them – medium shot, long shot.

KAMAZ construction – long shot, medium shot, panorama.

American newspaper correspondents talk with workers at the KAMAZ construction site – medium shot, panorama, close-ups.

American and Soviet engineers, jointly designing the linear complex of the Kama Automobile Plant, discuss the project, examine the drawings – medium shot, long shot, close-ups. L.I. Brezhnev receives US senators in his Washington residence, talks with them – long shot, medium panoramas.

April 1974. L.I. Brezhnev receives Senator Edward Kennedy and members of his family in the Kremlin; gives his photograph to the younger Kennedy – long shot, medium shot. E. Kennedy with his wife at the Electrosila plant; talking with workers – long shot, medium shot, panorama. E. Kennedy shares his impressions of his trip to the USSR with members of the Senate – medium shot.

Washington, the Capitol building – long shot.

Representatives of the American Congress receive the Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, candidate for membership in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU B.N. Ponomarev – medium shot, panorama.

Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, weaver Z.P. Pukhova as part of the USSR delegation – medium shot.

Representatives of the Congress and Soviet parliamentarians exchange welcoming speeches – medium shot, close-up.

Airplane in the air – general shot.

Airplane wing – medium shot.

Stewardess delivers and hands out newspapers and magazines to passengers – general shot.

Map of the Moscow-New York flight route – medium shot.

Pilots in the airplane cockpit – medium shot.

Airplane landing at New York airport; passengers exit the airplane – general, medium shots.

Newsreel from 1937: Airport – general shot.

Single-engine RD airplane at the airport – general shot.

Soviet pilots V. Chkalov, G. Baidukov, A. Belyakov are preparing to fly to America via the North Pole – medium shots.

RD airplane in the air – medium shot.

RD airplane lands at New York airport; Americans greet Soviet pilots; cannon salute; Chkalov, Baidukov, Belyakov are escorted by Americans; V. Chkalov speaks (synchronously) about another flight to America, which is made by Soviet pilots M. Gromov, S. Yumashev, A. Danilin – medium, close-up.

Airplane ANT-25 No. 1 in the air, the ground from on board the plane – general plan.

Americans greet Gromov, Yumashev and Danilin, driving in a car along the streets of New York – medium, general plan.

Newsreel from 1962: Americans greet Soviet cosmonaut G.S. Titov – medium, close-up. G. Titov at a reception with US President D.F. Kennedy – medium plan, panorama. G. Titov speaks to the Americans (synchronously) – close-up.

Sunrise – general plan.

Cosmonauts A. Nikolaev and V.I. Sevastyanov ascend into the rocket; rocket launch; Nikolaev and Sevastyanov in the rocket cabin during the 18-day flight – medium, close-up A car drives up to the building of the USSR Academy of Sciences; American cosmonaut Neil Armstrong gets out of the car, enters the building, greets M.V. Keldysh – general, medium, close-up.

Meeting of Soviet cosmonauts K. Feoktistov and G. Beregovoy with American scientists and cosmonauts in Houston; inspecting the equipment of the American cosmonauts; G. Beregovoy tries on a helmet – medium, close-up.

Photojournalists taking pictures – close-up. 1973 France.

Air Show in La Bourget – general, medium shot.

Alexei Leonov and American cosmonaut Stafford talk about the upcoming joint flight (synchronously in Russian and English) – close-ups.

The Kremlin – general shot, panorama.

US President R. Nixon with his wife at a reception in the Kremlin during his visit in 1972 – medium shot, panorama.

The White House building – long shot. L.I. Brezhnev and R. Nixon sign an agreement on preventing nuclear war – medium shot, close-up.

Red Square during a festive demonstration – long shot, medium shot. L.I. Brezhnev delivers a speech from the Mausoleum tribune about the peace-loving policy of the Soviet Union (synchronously) – close-up.

Demonstrators applaud – medium shot, long shot.

Kremlin stars – close-up.