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Title USSR Today 1955 No. 53
Production Date c.1955
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:10:32
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Newsreel/Cinemagazine
Summary The results of Moscow's Five Year Plan -- Metro construction -- Celebrations for the 6th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of India -- New swimming pool -- Celebrations for the 200th Anniversary of Mozart's Birth -- The transfer of Porkkala back to Finland -- A new railway in Mongolia.
Subjects Five Year Plan; Housing; Construction; Restaurants; Shopping; Hospitals; Health and medicine; Nursery schools; Children; Schools; Transport; Celebrations; International relations; Music; Swimming; Commemorations; Opera; Politics; Railways
People Shvernik, Nikolay (1888-1970); Mikhailov, Nikolai (1906-1982); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Shaporin, Yuri (1887-1966); Pervukhin, Mikhail (1904-1978); Kekkonen, Urho (1900-1986); Virolainen, Johannes (1914-2000); Paasikivi, Juho Kusti (1870-1956)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Moscow; Kiev; Ukraine; Helsinki; Finland; Ulaanbaatar; Mongolia
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Newsreels & Cinemagazines
BFI Identifier N-507450
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