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Title: ANTI-ALCOHOL CAMPAIGN / USSR VISIT?

Reference number: 1976

Date: 1930sc

Director: [possibly filmed by Thomas Murray]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 20 mins, c

Description: A record of the Soviet Union's anti-alcohol campaign which included brigades of teetotallers organised at factories and firms to speed up the rate of recruiting. Reel 2 shows the Russian vessel "Felix Dzezhinsky" with passengers on board preparing to leave.

Shotlist: REEL 1

No credits. Anti-alcohol campaign. The policy of the Soviets is to work for the complete eradication of alcoholism. We must eradicate drunkenness, close drink shops ... "Moscow has a plan" Stock brigades of teetotallers are organised at factories and firms to speed up the rate of recruiting. Group of hikers, decorated floats procession. People at coast, groups of young people/teenagers on outing [possibly USSR visit?] Farm machinery, ice cream van. City. Floats procession. People in Edinburgh's Princes Street gardens (10.00).

REEL 2

No credits. [USSR visit?] Russian vessel "Felix Dzezhinsky"(?) People board, preparations to leave. Shots on board ship. [Remainder of reel unshotlisted] (c10.00)