COMMUNISM & RUSSIA
TITLE: "THE STARRY WAY". RUSSIAN NARRATION. THE SELECTION, TRAINING AND FLIGHT OF FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA 926),ON JUNE 16, 1963, IN SPACESHIP VOSTOK 6. BOTH VOSTOK 5 (WITH COSMONAUT VALERY BYKOVSKY), AND 6 WERE LAUNCHED 2 DAYS APART. BOTH CIRCLED EARTH TOGETHER.
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ABOVE VIEW NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV MOTORCADE ROLLING DOWN AVENUE. CROWDS ON BOTH SIDES OF STREET. KHRUSHCHEV, COSMONAUTS VALERY BYKOVSKY, AND VALENTINA TERESHKOVA (1ST FEMALE IN SPACE), STANDS IN OPEN LIMO. ALL WAVING TO CROWDS. TITLE AND CREDITS FOLLOW.
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| 00:02:46 106 |
LS EXCURSION BOAT ON VOLGA RIVER, HUGE SUN GOING DOWN AT DUSK. GOOD SHOT SUN AT DUSK. SANDY BEACH AT WATERS EDGE. VARIOUS OTHER SCENIC VIEWS ALONG RIVER. VOICE OVER DESCRIBES.
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| 00:03:11 131 |
PAN FROM RIVER TO SMALL HOME IN WOODED AREA. TWO WOMEN WALKING FROM HOUSE TO PARK BENCH, NOT FAR FROM HOUSE.THEY SIT AND CHAT. ONE IS VALENTINA TERESHKOVA.
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| 00:03:41 161 |
LS VARIOUS RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS ALONG SHORELINE AS SEEN FROM SEA LOOKING ASHORE. MORE OF OLD CATHEDRAL WITH FAMILIAR ONION SHAPED STEEPLES. ZOOM AWAY OLD GOVERNMENT BUILDING. TROLLEY ROLLING THOUGH STREET IN FRONT. SEVERAL MULTISTORY OLD BRICK APARTMENT HOUSES. (VALENTINA HOME TOWN ?)
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| 00:04:16 196 |
GROUP OF YOUNG PARACHUTISTS STAND AT ATTENTION AS LEADER GIVES INSTRUCTION. LEADER CHECKS EACH PERSON'S PARACHUTE, INCLUDING VALENTINA'S FOR SAFETY, BEFORE THEY ALL MARCH TO LARGE VINTAGE BI-PLANE AND BOARD IT. PLANE TAKES OFF.
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LS ZOOM IN YOUNG COUPPLES ON BOARDWALK LOOK OUT TO SCENIC HARBOR CONTAINING SMALL BOATS. ABOVE VIEW (MOSCOW ?) TREE LINED AVENUE WITH CAR TRAFFIC LONG ROWS HI-RISE APARTMENT HOUSES ON BOTH SIDES OF AVENUE.
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| 00:05:10 250 |
TILT DOWN DOMED BUILDING (OBSERVATORY ?) TWO TALL ROCKET-LIKE STRUCTURES OUTSIDE. CU VALENTINA, SITTING AT DESK, WRITING,,STUDYING BOOK. MEN, WOMEN SCIENTISTS, LOOK AT DISPLAYS OF SPACE OBJECTS, TRACKING EQUIPMENT (?) VOICE OVER EXPLAINS.
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| 00:06:33 333 |
CU PAN MINIATURE MODELS OF VARIETY OF SPACE RELATED OBJECTS ON DISPLAY IN GALLERY.
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| 00:07:13 373 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA AT DESK LOOKING AND POINTING TO NUMBERS ON A HAND HELD BOARD, AS WOMAN SCIENTIST TAKES NOTES. MALE SCIENTIST WITH ELECTRONIC MONITOR TURNS KNOBS AS HE MONITORS VALENTINA'S COORDINATION. RUSSIAN VOICE OVER DESCRIBES.
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| 00:07:50 410 |
SOVIET OFFICER WITH EARPHONES CHECKS OUT DOCUMENTS AS DOES VALENTINA, WITH EARPHONES NEXT TO HIM, THEY WRITE ON PAPER AS THEY LISTEN. WOMAN SCIENTIST OR MATH TEACHER WRITES EQUATIONS ON BLACK BOARD AS STUDENT, BACK TO CAMERA, TAKES NOTES. TEACHER WALKS TO HUGE WORLD GLOBE, POINTS TO SPOT ON GLOBE.
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| 00:08:17 437 |
VALENTINA ON CROSS COUNTRY SKIES MOVING QUICKLY IN SNOW. CU HER SKIS IN MOTION. PAN SNOW BOUND TREES IN A WINTER WONDERLAND.
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| 00:08:34 454 |
CU 78 RPM RECORD PLAYING ON TURNTABLE, TILT UP TO VALENTINA, SEATED NEXT TO PLAYER, SADLY LISTENING TO THE MUSIC. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS.
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| 00:08:54 474 |
TILT DOWN GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING WITH STATUES OF TEAM HORSES PULLING MAN ON CHARIOT, TOWARDS CAMERA, TILT DOWN LONG COLUMNS TO WELL DRESSED VALENTINA,, SEATED ON PARK BENCH ALL BUNDLED UP IN FUR HAT, FUR COAT, WALKING OUTSIDE KREMLIN BUILDINGS.
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| 00:09:12 492 |
VARIOUS SHOTS TREES IN FOREST, VALENTINA, AMID TREES DOING ARM, LEG BENDING EXERCISES. THEN JOGGING THROUGH WOODS. VARIOUS SHOTS SHE BOUNCING, TUMBLING ON TRAMPOLINE AS YOUNG MAN (INSTRUCTOR , STANDS BY. SAME ON SWING LIKE DEVICE SWINGS OUT AND OVER BAR.. (VALENTINA TRAINING FOR SPACE FLIGHT ?)
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| 00:10:00 540 |
CU HANDS OF SCIENTIST TURNING STEERING TYPE WHEELS CONTROLLING PRESSURE IN PRESSURE CHAMBER. CU GAUGES. SCIENTIST PEERS THROUGH SMALL PORTHOLE AT VALENTINA, WEARING OXYGEN MASK INSIDE CHAMBER. 2 SCIENTISTS WATCH HER FROM OUTSIDE.
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| 00:10:22 562 |
FEMALE WATCHES PRINT OUT OF VITAL SIGNS. CU FACE SHOT VALENTINA WITH FACE MASK. MALE OFFICER (COSMONAUT ?) IN UNIFORM DOING EQUATIONS ON BLACKBOARD AS VALENTINA WATCHES, THEY DISCUSS EQUATIONS.
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| 00:11:25 625 |
VARIOUS SHOTS, FACE SHOTS, VALENTINA, SEATED IN CENTRIFUGE (?) AS IT SPINS AROUND (?).
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| 00:11:50 650 |
MS MALE, FEMALE SCIENTISTS WITH MAN (COSMONAUT) SEATED IN SPECIAL CHAIR, SPIN AND ROCK HIM AS THEY TEST SPECIAL CHAIR DEVICE. VALENTINA, IN B/G SWINGS BACK AND FORTH ON SWING-LIKE DEVICE. BOTH COSMONAUTS SWITCH PLACES . (TESTING HUMAN REACTION TO VARIOUS MOVEMENTS ?)
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| 00:12:51 711 |
CU PAN MALE, FEMALE WEARING PILOT HEADGEAR WITH THERMOMETERS IN MOUTHS AS THERMOMETER IN MOUTH, SIT IN CHAMBER. CU FACE SHOT,VALENTINA, WITH THERMOMETER IN MOUTH, EYES CLOSED, SWEATS PROFUSELY. CU GAUGES MEASURING REACTIONS. BOTH EXIT CHAMBER, THEN WEIGHED.
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| 00:13:35 755 |
THREE MALE COSMONAUTS IN MILITARY UNIFORM HAVING DISCUSSION AROUND WORLD GLOBE. VARIOUS SHOTS MALE ASTRONAUTS, DOING EQUATIONS, GOING THROUGH VARIETY TESTS INSIDE CHAMBER, INCLUDING FLASHING LIGHTS. .
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CAPSULE WITH COSMONAUT INSIDE (?) SPINS AROUND, TUMBLES, ROLLS OVER AND OVER. GREAT SHOTS MALE COSMONAUT IN SPACE OUTFIT, TAKES NOTES ON PAD AS HE FLOATS AROUND IN ZERO GRAVITY CHAMBER. HE TUMBLES AROUND, BOUNCES OFF CEILING AND SEEMS TO ENJOY IT.
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| 00:15:36 876 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA IN SPACE OUTFIT GETS INSTRUCTION FROM PARACHUTIST IN PLANE BEFORE SHE JUMPS OUT OF PLANE, PARACHUTES TO GROUND, PULLS IN HER PARACHUTE.
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| 00:16:27 927 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA, HIKING THROUGH RUGGED WOODS ALONG STREAM. SITTING ON LARGE ROCK FORMATION AND LOOKING OUT TO SEA, AS WATER SPLASHES AGAINST ROCKS.
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| 00:17:09 969 |
TO 00:20:50 - VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA GOING THROUGH VARIETY OF TESTS IN LAB AND CHAMBER, AS SCIENTISTS WATCH HER ON TV SCREENS, DOING VARIETY CHORES. SHE IS PLACED IN CENTRIFUGE, WHICH SPINS AT HIGH SPEEDS. VARIOUS OTHER TESTS.
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| 00:21:27 1227 |
VALENTINA WALKS AND CHATS WITH 5 YOUNG,MALE, COSMONAUTS IN MILITARY UNIFORMS, SHE WEARS DRESS, AS THEY ALL WALK DOWN ROAD NEAR HER HOME. VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA'S MODEST HOME, INSIDE AND OUT. VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA HAVING DINER WITH COSMONAUTS, IN HER HOME.
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| 00:22:04 1264 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINE BEING FITTED WITH HEAD GEAR BY SCIENTISTS. VALENTINA SEATED IN FULL COSMONAUT GEAR, BEING HELPED BY YOUNG MALE COMRADES. CU VALENTIONA HAVING HER HAIR DONE BY BEAUTICIAN. CHECKING HER HAIR-DO IN MIRROR.
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MS YOUNG MALE COSMONAUT CHECKS OUT SMALL ITEMS TO BE TAKEN ON SPACE FLIGHT (?) PAN HUNDREDS SMALL ITEMS ON TABLE, INCLUDING MEDICINE, FOOD, WATER. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS IN RUSSIAN.
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| 00:23:54 1374 |
ZOOM IN WINDOWS VALENTINA'S HOME AT NIGHT. 5 MALE COSMONAUTS RELAXING, PLAYING CHESS, READING, IN DISCUSSION ABOUT SCHEDULED FLIGHT THE NEXT MORNING (?). SCIENTIST BREAKS THEM UP FOR BED TIME.
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| 00:25:15 1455 |
ANIMATED DRAWINGS OF EARTH AND SPACE VEHICLE CIRCLING IT. LS SUN GOING DOWN OVER HORIZON.SHOWER OF FIRE ON SUN SURFACE. MORE OF ANIMATED DRAWINGS. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS.
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| 00:26:01 1501 |
MS EXTERIOR SHOT OBSERVATORY. FEMALE SCIENTIST ADJUSTING INSTRUMENTS (TELESCOPE ?) CU MALE SCIENTIST PEERS THROUGH TELESCOPE. ANOTHER MAKES ADJUSTMENTS, TAKES NOTES. 2 MALE, 1 FEMALE DISCUSS IT. MORE OF ANIMATED DRAWINGS VEHICLE CIRCLING EARTH, RADIATING INFORMATION.
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| 00:29:08 1688 |
CU MALE COSMONAUT VALERY BYKOVSKY, IN SPACE SUIT, BEING HELPED BY TECHNICIANS ADJUSTING SUIT. HE STANDS UP, MOVES AROUND. TILT DOWN FROM HEAD TO TOE OF SPACE SUIT. HE EXITS BUILDING WITH ASSISTANTS, CLIMBS INTO BUS FOR TRIP TO LAUNCH PAD.
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| 00:30:19 1759 |
VARIOUS HOTS BUS ARRIVING AT LAUNCH PAD, CROWD APPLAUD.COSMONAUT CLIMBS TO ELEVATOR, WAVES TO CROWD BEFORE GETTING INTO ELEVATOR TO SPACE CRAFT. (VOSTOK 5).
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| 00:31:43 1843 |
VARIOUS SHOTS COSMONAUT BYKOVSKY IN SPACE CAPSULE, SCIENTISTS CHECKING VALVES, GAUGES ON CONTROL PANELS, FOR LAUNCH, SERIOUS FACES ON ALL AS COUNTDOWN BEGINS.
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| 00:32:47 1907 |
HUGE SMOKE CLOUD, AS VOSTOK 5 SUCCESSFULLY LIFTS OFF. VARIOUS SHOTS MISSILE SPEEDING SKYWARD. HUGE AUTOMATIC CAMERAS, SCANNERS (?) MOVE SKYWARD AS THEY FOLLOW SHIP. LS VAPOR CLOUD SEEN IN SKY. PAN SCIENTISTS, MILITARY FOLLOWING FLIGHT WITH BINOCULARS.
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| 00:33:08 1928 |
MALE, FEMALE SCIENTISTS WORKING, CHECKING INSTRUMENTATION AT CENTRAL COMMAND. CHECKING READOUTS. CHECKING HUGE WALL MAPS. CU HUGE RADAR FOLLOWS FLIGHT.
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| 00:33:59 1979 |
CROWDS IN RED SQUARE, FAMED ONION STEEPLE CATHEDRAL IN B/G, FACE SHOT YOUNG MILITARY MAN, ALL IN STREETS LISTENING ON LOUDSPEAKERS. CROWD OF SCREEMING SCHOOL CHILDREN RUN OUT OF SCHOOL TO HEAR THE NEWS OVER LOUDSPEAKER. MS PAN APPLAUDING CHILDREN.
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| 00:34:10 1990 |
HUNTER 0N RANGE WITH HORSE, DISMOUNTS, RUNS TO TENT TO HEAR PORTABLE RADIO. GROUP RUSSIAN COWBOYS ON HORSEBACK, CELEBRATE, MORE OF SAME. MS HUGE RADAR TOWER. CU FILM COSMONAUT IN SPACE SUIT, SMILING. SPEAKING TO CAMERA. MS NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV SPEAKS TO COSMONAUT ON TELEPHONE.
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MS NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV SPEAKING TO COSMONAUT VALERY BYKOVSKY, OVER TELEPHONE. FACE SHOT BYKOVSKY ANSWERING. CROWDS IN RED SQUARE CELEBRATE, CARRY LARGE PHOTOS OF COSMONAUT BYKOVSKY. SOVIET PEOPLE ALL WALKS OF LIFE, THROUGH OUT SOVIET UNION, SOME ORIENTALS READ NEWSPAPER HEADLINES OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENT.
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| 00:36:00 2100 |
PEOPLE BUYING NEWSPAPERS AT CORNER NEWSSTAND IN CITY, READING HEADLINES. MORE OF BYKOVSKY IN SPACE SHIP.
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FEMALE COSMONAUT, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA, IN FULL SPACE SUIT, EXITS BUILDING, CLIMBS INTO BUS FOR HER TRIP TO LAUNCHING PAD. CU CLIMBING INTO BUS, TAKING SEAT. VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA BEING INTERVIEWED ON BUS.
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| 00:37:30 2190 |
ABOVE VIEW BUS CARAVAN ARRIVING AT DESTINATION, VALENTINA EXITING WITH YOUNG MILITARY MEN. VALENTINA CLIMBS UP STEPS TO ELEVATOR TO SPACE CRAFT, WAVES GOODBYE, GETS IN. MS ELEVATOR CLIMBING TO SPACE VEHICLE.
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VARIOUS GOOD CU SHOTS, VALENTINA IN HER SPACE SUIT, SEATED IN CAPSULE, AWAITING LIFTOFF. VARIOUS SHOTS SCIENTIST AT CONTROLS IN CONTROL CENTER, MONITORING COUNTDOWN.
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| 00:39:31 2311 |
HUGE CLOUD OF SMOKE ENGULFS ROCKET AND SPACE VEHICLE AS IT BEGINS SUCCESSFUL LIFTOFF. WOMEN AND MEN WATCH THROUGH BINOCULARS. RADAR FOLLOWS IT. SCIENTISTS AT CONTROL PANELS. OTHERS SEATED AT ROUND TABLE. MORE OF SAME.
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| 00:40:46 2386 |
MS GREAT SHOT KHRUSHCHEV, AND TWO OTHER SOVIET LEADERS NERVOUSLY WATCH LAUNCH, AND LISTEN TO VALENTINA SPEAK. CU VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA IN CAPSULE SPEAKING. KHRUSHCHEV SPEAKING TO HER ON TELEPHONE. VOICE OVER, KHRUSHCHEV 0N PHONE.
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| 00:42:05 2465 |
.TO 00:42:58 VARIOUS SHOTS RUSSIANS IN CITY STREETS CELEBRATE WILDLY. NEWSPAPERS ROLLING OFF THE PRESSES. CORNER NEWSSTANDS SELLING NEWSPAPERS TO CROWDS. PEOPLE ON FARMS, REMOTE AREAS, GETTING NEWS FROM HELICOPTER PILOT
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| 00:42:59 2519 |
NEW YOUNG MOM OF TWINS IN HOSPITAL HOLDS NEWBORN AS NURSE HOLDS TWIN. PAN 7 NEWBORN BABIES LYING SIDE BY SIDE ON BED, ALL BORN ON DAY OF LAUNCH (?) VOICE OVER EXPLAINS. MORE OF REACTIONS TO NEWS. NEWSPAPER HEADLINES.
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| 00:44:39 2619 |
VARIOUS SHOTS COSMONAUTS VALENTINA AND VALERY, IN VOSTOK 5 AND 6, COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER AS THEIR CRAFT PASS EACH OTHER IN SPACE.
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| 00:45:23 2663 |
VOICE OVER MALE AND FEMALE SING CATCHY RUSSIAN TUNES AS AS SHOTS OF MOSCOW TRAFFIC AT NIGHT, SHOTS OF EARTH AND OUTER SPACE AS SEEN BY COSMONAUTS, SCXENIC VIEWS OF RUSSIAN LANDSCAPE, BOAT ON RIVER AT NIGHT, ETC. ARE SHOWN.
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MS GOOD SHOT RADAR TOWER POINTING SKYWARD. RUSSIAN MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, FROM ALL STRIPES OF LIFE, PROUDLY LOOKING TO THE SKIES. SCIENTISTS IN CONTROL ROOM WEARING HEADPHONES, MAN THEIR CONTROL PANELS AT CENTRAL CONTROL. ALL STAND AND APPLAUD AS COSMONAUTS SUCCESSFULLY LAND BACK ON EARTH.
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| 00:47:50 2810 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA, SITTING ON GROUND AMI CAPSULE DEBRIS (?) MUNCHING ON APPLWE AS CROWD GATHERS AROUND. SHE READS NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. FELLOW COSMONAUT (?) VALERY BYKOVSKY, JOINS HER.
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| 00:48:28 2848 |
VARIOUS STATICS ABOUT FLIGHT SEMI-IMPOSED OVER ANIMATED FILM OF TWO CAPSULES ROTATING EARTH. VOICE OVER DESCRIBES.
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| 00:48:55 2875 |
VALERY, IN ARMY UNIFORM AND VALENTINA IN DRESS, BOTH WITH BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. THEY HUG AFFECTIONATELY. VARIOUS SHOTS BOTH TRAVELING ON EXCURSION BOAT. VALERY TAKING THE HELM AND OTHER SHOTS.
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| 00:50:00 2940 |
BOTH ON AIRLINER HAVING DINNER. AIRLINER ACCOMPANIED BY FIGHTER JET. ABOVE VIEW AIRLINER LANDING, HONOR GUARD, LEADERS WAITING. MS VALENTINA CHECKS OUT VALERY'S UNIFORM BEFORE EXITING PLANE.MS
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| 00:51:22 3022 |
MS VALERY AND VALENTINA EXIT AIRLINER, WALK LONG RED CARPET TO REVIEWING STAND WHERE NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV AND ALL HIGH RANKING LEADERS AWAIT. VALERY SALUTES AS ANTHEM PLAYS. PAN EXCITED CROWD. VALENTINA IS HUGGED HUGGED BY KHRUSHCHEV.KHRUSHCHEV KISSES VALERY.
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| 00:53:03 3123 |
VARIOUS SHOTS MOTORCADE WITH KHRUSHCHEV,VALERY AND VALENTINA IS GREETED BY HUGE CROWDS IN MOSCOW. GOOD SHOT CAMERAMAN AND CAMERA MOUNTED ON AUTO FOLLOWS ALONG, TAKES FILM SHOTS ON THE MOVE. GOOD SHOTS MOTORCADE ALONG KREMLIN WALL.
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| 00:53:59 3179 |
MS COSMONAUT VALERY BYKOVSKY MAKES SPEECH AT KREMLIN WALL. FACE SHOTS IDOLIZING,PROUD RUSSIANS WATCHING. KHRUSHCHEV ALONGSIDE HIM. KHRUSHCHEV GIVES HIM BIG,LONG, KISS ON LIPS AFTER SPEECH.
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| 00:55:26 3266 |
MS FEMALE COSMONAUT VALENTINA TERESHKOVA GIVES HER SPEECH. MONTAGE FACE SHOTS PEOPLE LISTENING PROUDLY. KHRUSHCHEV GIVES HIS SPEECH. ABOVE VIEW HUGE CROWD IN RED SQUARE. ALL ON KREMLIN WALL HOLD HANDS HIGH AS CROWD SHOWS APPRECIATION.
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| 00:59:16 3496 |
VARIOUS SHOTS AT BANQUET, RUSSIAN LEADER PINS MEDAL ON VALENTINA CHEST., THEN ON VALERY. MORE IDOLIZING CROWDS. MORE MOTORCADE.
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| 01:01:14 3614 |
VARIOUS SHOTS VALENTINA VISITS HUGE MILL SHOWS HER KNOWLEDGE OF MACHINERY CONTAINING THOUSANDS ROLLS OF THREAD. MORE OF VALENTINA IN MOTORCADE.
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