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Title USSR Today 1957 No. 6
Production Date 1957
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:10:16
Production Company Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow; Sovexportfilm
Film Subject Era 1954-1975; 1917-1924
Genre Newsreel/Cinemagazine
Summary Leningrad -- Vast iron ore discovery in Kazakhstan -- The new electric integrator machine -- The Pavlov Institute of Physiology -- Composer Khachaturyan at work -- An Indo-Soviet feature film co-production -- Youth festivals.
Subjects Architecture; History; Memorials; Russian Revolution (1917); Urban development; Metallurgy; Excavation; Oil; Iron; Technology; Science; Research; Laboratory tests; Animals; Experiments; Composers; Film history; Actor; Youth culture; Festivals; Traditional dance; Parades and marches
People Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978); Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad (1914-1987); Pronin, Vasili (1905-1966); Strizhenov, Oleg (1929-); Nargis (1929-1981)
Places Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Kazakhstan; Dagestan; Tashkent; Uzbekistan; Rostov-on-Don
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-507469
Copyright The British Film Institute