Yuri Gagarin Is Welcomed By Moscow (1961)

Location: Moscow, Russia / USSR / Soviet Union Panning shot over crowds in Red Square. High angle GV. crowded Red Square with banners of Lenin and with Saint Basil’s and the Kremlin in b.g. GVs. and CUS. crowds in Red Square. MS. Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khruschev, hands linked, waving to crowds. CUs. Two Russian women in crowd. CU. Gagarin speaks from the Lenin mausoleum, pan to Khruschev. CUs. Types in crowd. LS. Pan from Soviet ministers on mausoleum, to huge crowd in Red Square. CU. Khruschev speaking. Pan over Red Square. CUs. Types in crowd. Various shots as massed crowds file past the mausoleum, waving and shouting their praises with good CUs. of Gagarin. (Comb. Dupe Neg. ) Note: The celebrations are to honour Gagarin as the first man in space. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT