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“ WHO GOES THERE? A PRIMER ON COMMUNISM ” Part 2 (1963)

1963 · Short film · 25 min

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This black-and-white educational film, a kinescope of a TV special from 1963, educates on the facts and timeline of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history. It includes the Russian Revolution, the rule of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, World War I & II, Nikita Khrushchev's rule, communist corporations with China, and footage of economic, social, and cultural activities in the Soviet Union up until the 1960s. The film is distributed by McGraw-Hill Text-Films, hosted and scripted by the journalist from NBC News, Robert Abernathy, written and produced by Robert Northshield, directed by Don McDonough, edited by Richard Colbrook, with Leonard L. Leddington as associate producer, music by Morris Goldenberg. “Part Two” title banner (00:07). Credits (00:09). The host, Bob Abernethy, introduces the film in front of a photograph of Vladimir Lenin, considered a leader of the Russian Revolution (00:17). The flag of the Soviet Union (00:47). Abernathy explains historical facts attached to the flag and its connection to communism (00:56). Footage of Russian Revolution protests (01:11). Lenin giving a speech (01:20). Views of the democratically elected assembly at the time of the Russian Revolution (1917-1923) (01:33). Lenin’s troops in 1917 (01:39). Bolshevik and German negotiators meeting in reference to World War I in 1918 (01:52). Lenin’s Bolshevik soldiers on horses, known as the Red Army (02:07). The Red Army’s Commissar Leon Trotsky (02:25). Views of Lenin, Trotsky, and the…

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Running time
25 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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