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Moscow’S Young Americans (1968)

1968 · Short film · 22 min

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ABC educational film called Discovery about the foreign children attending the Anglo-American School in Moscow. The school is attended by children from all over the world whose parents are diplomats and work in government. The show highlights famous landmarks and history of Moscow during soviet communist rule and how the children have acclimated to their new environment. The film is interesting for the time because it gives an objective view of Soviet Russia in 1968. The Anglo-American School of Moscow remains in operation. It is an independent, non-profit, co-educational, international day school catering for students between the ages of 4 and 18 (Pre-kindergarten to Grade 12), chartered by the American, British and Canadian embassies. A group of children wrap a scarf around a snowman. Two kids eat piroshkis in their ushanka hats. Image of Vladimir Lenin on a red billboard (00:29). Title “Moscow’s Young Americans.” Animated graphics introduce “Discovery “68.” Snow dusted Saints Basil’s looms over the Red Square (1:30). Quick shots of the Moscow Kremlin Wall, the Cathedral of Annunciation and the Tsar Cannon in the Kremlin. A long line of people in heavy winter clothes wait to see Lenin’s grave (1:54). Children play on monkey bars and in the snow. They dress a snowman up while the narrators introduce them and what countries they are from. They introduce the Anglo-American School where the kids attend. The principle comes out in a fur coat and rings a bell (4:26). The…

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22 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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