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00:49:36 3.45 |
Reel opens: The Revolt of a Generation
DARK FOOTAGE throughout reel. |
00:49:38 6.12 |
Silhouette of a cowboy as he takes off against a dark and stormy cloudy sky, rounding up the cattle running in bkgd.
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00:49:47 15.22 |
Montage of lifestyle shots in a Hungarian village circa 1940's. Chopping firewood, hanging them on clothesline, gathering of town folk making music playing cards, young happy Hungarian girl talking to boy, everyone living life.
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00:50:35 62.96 |
Dark footage - from legs down soldiers marching.
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00:50:38 65.61 |
Military men marching, holding rifles, wearing helmets
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00:50:41 69.23 |
War planes dotting a gloomy sky over the city. War tanks driving down the streets. Dark days ahead.
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00:50:50 78.27 |
Var shots around the ruins in Hungary in 1945. Large monument overlooking the Danube River., crumbling bombed out buildings.
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00:51:05 92.48 |
Aerial of lines of people, refugees walking across a bridge over the Danube River.
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00:51:11 98.75 |
Dark footage - pan across the memorial statues of the various rulers of Hungary. Most likely, Heroes Square in Budapest. Narration
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00:51:28 116.39 |
Monument of man on a horse rearing up in front of Budapest castle.
WS Hungarian Parliament building |
00:51:36 123.54 |
Fade out
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00:51:37 124.94 |
WS huge gatherings of people circa 1948, Communist leader at podium addressing the crowd. Large banners with Communist leaders. Leaders speaking to the people from podiums (narration - promising to build a new society under Communism.)
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00:51:50 137.98 |
Pan across the city of Budapest - throngs of people in the squares, flags and banners flying.
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00:52:00 147.98 |
Tall monument overlooking the Danube River, honoring the Soviet Union
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00:52:05 153.37 |
Peds walking through downtown Budapest, some raising fists up as they walk by camera.
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00:52:26 173.64 |
Women and men working in the fields and farms, shoveling hay making piles or bales. Thick dark smoke coming out of smoke stacks in factories. Very dark footage inside factories. Workers pushing large dumpsters, could be coal. Working hard to make quotas.
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00:53:12 219.85 |
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00:53:14 221.56 |
Little children being handed new rewritten textbooks, piles of new books.
Little girl leafing through new textbook as a friend looks on. Kids are seen reading the new books. |
00:53:32 240.09 |
Hungary's youth marching through fields. Young kid staking a Communist flag in a large boulder overlooking a field.
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00:53:40 247.59 |
Teenagers male and female seen digging vigorously along the coast, a large crane looming up into the sky is parked on the sand.
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00:53:51 258.93 |
WS from back of room, a University auditorium, students (children of farmers and workers specifically) stand up as professor enters and then sit.
Shots of individual students. With narration - students were taught only according to Communist doctrine. |
00:54:15 283.35 |
Fade out.
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00:54:16 283.8 |
October 1956, Pan over thousands of students gathered - protesting to demand an end to compulsory instruction in Marxism (according to unseen narration), end to secret police methods, demanded free speech and withdrawal of Soviet troops.
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00:54:32 299.98 |
More footage of the thousands of peaceful student protestors, holding up signs and flags.
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00:54:44 311.99 |
CU a flag with hole in middle, the Star had been torn from the middle. Exuberant students walking together.
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00:54:57 324.84 |
Police officer running across cobblestoned street. Peaceful protest becoming angry. police or could be Hungarian youth hovering over a pile of bullets, loading bullets into guns. Rifles being fired, tanks rolling in. Chaos in the streets.
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00:55:37 365.11 |
Tilt down on tank firing . People carrying a victim on stretcher through the streets. Students running for cover.
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00:55:56 383.82 |
Tilt down and pan over Budapest after battle, tanks parked, destruction and debris.
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00:56:09 396.71 |
Outside Budapest, a tree lined country road, pov moving vehicle. Red Cross wagon on street, wagon full of people in back.
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00:56:32 419.55 |
Austrian border. Flag flying with hole in the middle. Vintage Red Cross trucks.
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00:56:51 438.88 |
Tanks rolling down the streets of Budapest loaded with people on the outside, waving to onlookers
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00:57:07 454.66 |
Var shots in Budapest of the war-torn buildings in ruins, crumbling down, streets loaded with debris. Piles of wood from shattered buildings, apartments, and shops. Bodies still lying in the streets.
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00:57:59 506.55 |
Shots of people after the battle, reuniting with friends, hugging and kissing on the streets.
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00:58:09 516.76 |
Young woman carrying a rifle walking casually down the street with a soldier.
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00:58:10 518.43 |
Graffiti written on building in large letters "RUSZKIK HAZA!" Peds walking by.
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00:58:17 524.55 |
Ladder leading up to top of tall Soviet monument in Budapest. Statue of a Soviet plane on top of the monument falling to the ground and crashing to pieces as people run toward it and chop it up with an ax.
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00:58:30 538.22 |
Men shooting rifles at Russian monuments on buildings. Large Soviet star symbol crashing down from top of building. Huge statue of Joseph Stalin being torn down, people are seen hammering away at it.
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00:58:59 566.65 |
Big bon fire - people throwing stuff into the fire - the burning away of anything reminding people of Communist life.
Communist books seen burning in open fire |
00:59:11 579.24 |
Burning flags, debris in the streets, broken down buildings and dead bodies, people carried away on stretchers in downtown Budapest.
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00:59:27 595.14 |
Sick people lying in beds in overcrowded hospital.
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00:59:44 612.42 |
Piles of flowers in the streets of Budapest as young Hungarians being mourned. People gathered sad, holding pictures of their dead loved ones.
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01:00:02 629.88 |
CU (dark) large church bell ringing.
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01:00:06 633.87 |
People in church, candles lit at alter.
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01:00:29 657.32 |
Handwritten signs everywhere written in Hungarian - Russians Go Home!
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01:00:47 675.42 |
Wagons with fruit driving down street. People on food lines. Trucks delivering food. Gradually life getting back to normal.
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01:01:16 704.33 |
Papers floating down from building - with news stories people were eager for. Narrator states Premier Imre Nagy declares Hungary's neutrality. People gathered reading newspapers in the streets.
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01:01:34 722.44 |
Fade to dark. Narrator stating Soviet Union launched an attack on Budapest - no film coverage.
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01:01:56 744.23 |
United nations diplomats meeting, talking.
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01:02:15 763.25 |
Tilt down shot of General Assembly at the United Nations.
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01:02:19 767.13 |
WS United Nations auditorium, many empty seats.
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01:02:19 767.13 |
WS United Nations auditorium, many empty seats.
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01:02:25 772.49 |
Speaker of the Security Council (unknown) reading the Resolution. Various other diplomats from various countries speaking at podium regarding the resolution.
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01:04:12 879.49 |
Russian military soldiers marching
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01:04:20 888.27 |
Tanks and military vehicles rolling down Budapest streets. Protestors march from around the world - Belgium, Germany, London, Paris
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01:05:10 938.17 |
Protestors in Paris are seen in the windows of the offices of the French Communist Party, fires burning on the street
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01:05:24 951.75 |
Students marching in Italy, carrying banners.
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01:05:33 961.23 |
Pan down from top of United Nations building to street level where serious, solemn demonstrators are seen carrying picket signs - "Hungarian Heroes Who Died for Freedom"
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01:05:49 977.21 |
Man reading newspaper in Argentina, huge banners denouncing the Soviet Union as repressors of people.
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01:06:20 1008.14 |
Cartoon banners expressing anger and sympathy from Vietnamese people. Marchers from Holland during the night, throwing stones at the offices of the Communist newspaper.
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01:07:07 1055.2 |
Refugees seen piled in open trucks, walking, in wagons leaving Hungary and entering Austria. Refugees carrying plates of food, children and women.
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01:08:02 1110.44 |
End reel
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