VISIT TO SOVIET UNION
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Title: VISIT TO SOVIET UNION
Reference number: 2425
Date: 1959 - 1960
Director: [attributed to Charlie Bukelis, Dawn Cine Group]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 5.25 mins
Description: A visit to the Soviet Union by a group of British delegates (possibly trade unionists), including a display of a national dance and the laying of flowers on a memorial.
Shotlist: No credits. Group arrives by bus, met by hosts [women wearing traditional dress]. Open air site. Display of national dance by women in traditional dress (3.43) Tombstone/memorial inscribed "Ionas Biliunas 1879-1907" gvs gardens of house, dancers lay flowers on memorial (4.18) inside and shots of visitors at a meal. Visitors are waved off on their bus outside building inscribed "Kultoros Namai" (5.18) Lorry on road (5.25)