Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur colour film shot and edited by Rosie Newman covering her visit to Moscow and Leningrad, Russia, winter 1961/1962.
Description: The first part of the film shows brief shots of Moscow in snowy conditions, including footage of The Kremlin, Lenin's Tomb, St Basil's Cathedral, Gum (The State Department Store), Uspensky Cathedral, Ivan the Terrible's Bell Tower, a snow clearing machine at work in the street, large advertising hoardings, men clearing the street with snow shovels, Lenin University, the Park of Culture and Rest, ice skaters practising for a competition on a frozen river, heated open-air swimming pool, the Tretiakov Gallery (Tretyakov), shot of Lady Roberts standing in the snow, The British Embassy, shot of the British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts posing for the camera standing next to his Rolls Royce car, a horse drawn sleigh and the Zagorsk Monastery.
The film then covers the visit of Rosie Newman and Sir Frank Roberts to the Novo-Dievitchy Monastery near Moscow.
Dark dusk shots in Moscow, including footage of the Kremlin.
The final section of the film shows brief shots of Leningrad (St Petersburg) in snowy conditions, including footage of the frozen Neva river, the Peter Paul Fortress, a bronze statue of Peter the Great on horseback, Rossi Street and a view of the Pushkin Theatre, the Winter Palace and The Hermitage, Women pushing prams along a street, Michael Palace (Mikhailov), Anichkov Palace, the Fontanka Canal and Snoli Cathedral and Nunnery.
The film ends with the caption "For what avail the plough and sail, or land or life, if freedom fail THE END" superimposed over an illustration of a hammer and sickle topped with a star.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
