NEW VIDEO! “This is Russia”

“MIAMI’S MISSION TO RUSSIA” PART I

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This video features excerpts from “This is Russia”, a WTVJ – Miami kinescope program narrated by Ralph Renick in 1959. A group of Florida professional businessmen visited Russia to capture footage of everyday life in Communist Russia and briefly discuss the country’s history. Free health care services lead to over-crowded hospitals. Supermarkets and traffic are non-existent due to the poor economy. Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, is also interviewed about his country’s lack of intent to go to war.

“MIAMI’S MISSION TO RUSSIA” PART II

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The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives’ mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible film and video materials made in or about Florida which reflect the history and culture of this region. An invaluable resource for researchers, film and video producers and the general public, the Wolfson Archive provides a year-round screening and seminar program featuring materials from our collection and other archives throughout the nation and abroad.

 


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