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Title: RUSSIA

Reference number: 6478

Date: 1971*

Sound: silent

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.45 minsc

Description: Amateur general views street scenes Leningrad and holiday resort Sochi, in Russia.

Shotlist: People standing beside road with cars and trams, high flats in b/ground. Pan expanse of water, long bridge. Pan street scene, skyline with Russian style architecture including 'onion' domes, and up large brightly painted tower. Sunny weather, tourists. Pan busy road. Large boat passes on river. Pan street and large ornate buildings, some with gold roofs and many with traditional features. Large gold spire in b/ground. Gvs tourists. Russian flag flying at bow of large white battleship, several people on board. Large building with white circular roof, in amongst trees. Tourists, man with open shirt waves to camera. Woman beside palm tree in gardens. Ornate white columns with Cryllic letters and urns on top. Two women beside small white fountain, giant lilies in pond. Woman smiles at camera. Pan buildings surrounded by trees. Gvs ornate gardens, urn lined path to pond. Flowers, buildings. Woman in pink skirt and top using public telephone outside hotel lobby, she walks towards camera.