Keith Holyoake in the Soviet Union
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✎ Suggest a correctionA documentary film about a visit to the USSR made by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture of New Zealand. Keith Holyoake takes a tour of farms outside of Moscow. He visits a collective farm whose main income is animal husbandry and witnesses the harvesting of maize in Ukraine. As part of the visit, Holyoake is taken to the Lenin and Stalin Mausoleum in Moscow, and the statutes of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and Bohdan Khmelnystky. Footage also includes his visit to the ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he sees a performance of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
Credits
Z Tuzova (director); I Sokolnikov (camera); A Sologubov (camera); A Khavchin (camera); B Sher (camera)
Complete catalog record
Original source: Reproduction of: USSR, 1955. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508262. | Contributors: Sokolnikov, I.; Sologubov, A.; Khavchin, A.; Sher, B. | Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:18:57) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Travel | Diplomatic relations | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- New Zealand | New Zealand -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union | New Zealand | Agriculture and farming | Collective farms | Dairy farming | Diplomacy | Politicians | Exhibition | Living conditions | Livestock | Animals | Ballet | Agricultural machinery | Memorials | USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | Moscow | Ukraine | Kiev | Holyoake, Sir Keith (1904-1983) | Matskevitch, Vladimir (1909-1998) | Hayter, Sir William (1906-1995) | Documentary | 1954-1975 | Holyoake, K. J -- Travel -- Soviet Union | Holyoake, K. J | Webcast
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:18:57) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Travel | Diplomatic relations | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- New Zealand | New Zealand -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union | New Zealand | Agriculture and farming | Collective farms | Dairy farming | Diplomacy | Politicians | Exhibition | Living conditions | Livestock | Animals | Ballet | Agricultural machinery | Memorials | USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | Moscow | Ukraine | Kiev | Holyoake, Sir Keith (1904-1983) | Matskevitch, Vladimir (1909-1998) | Hayter, Sir William (1906-1995) | Documentary | 1954-1975 | Holyoake, K. J -- Travel -- Soviet Union | Holyoake, K. J | Webcast
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Sources
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