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Communism: Riddle, Mystery, Enigma

Ephemeral film · 9 min

  • Mystery

Synopsis

Art Linkletter in front of satellite models Soviet space footage Yuri Gagarin? walking to reviewing stand and being embraced and kissed by Nikita Khrushchev models of space cities? early rocket experiments rocket test, falling down and exploding on pad (whose?)

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Running time
9 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · People Are Commies · Spuzz · 2019-07-16

Interesting snippet of propaganda, hosted by Art Linkletter (!!) about Communism I guess. No soundtrack, so you can just imagine what is said. This part (of a6 episode show! 3 reels!) apparently deals with rickets and missles. Some cool footage of a rocket exploding on a launchpad here.