1968COMMUNISM & RUSSIA
A TILE TO LIVE - - COMMUNIST NORTH VIETNAM FIGHTERS PARADE IN STREETS OF SOPHIA, BULGARIA. YOUTH FROM ALL OVER WORLD PROTEST VIETNAM WAR AND U. S. INVOLVEMENT. WIDESPREAD CONDEMNATION OF U.S. PARTICIPATION IN WAR.
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CU LITTLE BOY STANDING AT HIS PARENTS SIDE BITING INTO BAGEL, THEN SQUATTING TO GROUND AND DOING A DRAWING WITH WHITE CHALK. VARIOUS OTHER CHILDREN DOING SAME. CU VARIOUS DESIGNS ON PAVEMENT, DRAWN BY KIDS AND SOME BY ADULTS.
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RUSSIAN TITLE: "A TIME TO LIVE" FOLLOWED BY CREDITD. CU FACE SHOT SMILING CUTE LITTLE GIRL. LAS PLANE IN SKY PULLING LONG SIGN. PAN AERIAL CITYSCAPE OF SOPHIA, BULGARIA TO LONG ENDLESS PARADE SNAKING FOR MILES ON CITY STREETS.
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TILT DOWN PEOPLE ON BALCOMIES OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS TO BAND IN COLORFUL UNIFORMS MARCHING DOWN STREET. PARADERS CARRYING VARIETY OF FLAG AS THEY MARCH, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN SOLDIERS MARCHING PROUDLY. VOICE OVER "THESE VIETNAMESE CAME TO SOPHIA FROM THE FRONT LINES, WHILE THEIR COMRADES REMAINED IN THE TRENCHES.
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PAN CROWD WAVING RED FLAGS. PRETTY VIETNAM WOMAN WITH STRAW HAT WAVES BACK AT CROWD. TILT UP APARTMENT HOUSE TO PEOPLE WAVING FROM BALCONIES. PEOPLE IN PARADE WAVE BACK. CROWD JOIN PARADE WITH BANNERS AND FLAGS, SOME PLAY BRASS INSTRUMENTS. PALESTINIAN ARABS IN PARADE.
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| 00:11:18 636 |
AFRICAN MEN AND WOMEN IN PARADE DO NATIVE DANCING. AFRICAN WOMAN SHAKING IT AS THEY MARCH. PARADE OF FLAGS. PEOPLE CHANTING. SOVIET DELEGATION GET WARM RECEPTION AS THEY MARCH.
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AERIAL PAN HUGE STADIUM WHERE PARADE WINDS UP.
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CHEERING CROWDS WAVING FLAGS, WOMEN GROUPS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES DANCING ON FIELD, CHANTING CROWDS WITH CLENCHED FISTS. GROUPS IN ETHNIC COSTUMES PLAYING ETHNIC MUSIC ON VARIETY INSTRUMENTS. TWO GIRLS, ONE BOY WITH TORCH IN HAND, CLIMBS HUGE STAIRCASE STRETCHING FROM FIELD TO TOP OF STADIUM WHERE THEY LIGHT OLYMPIC LIGHT FLAME. CU FLAME.
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| 00:15:58 916 |
CU OLYMPIC BECOMES FLAMES OF WAR AS WE SWITCH TO FLAMES OF BUILDING ON FIRE IN SUBURBS OF HANOI. FACE OF BEWILDERED BOY AND PEASANT IN VIETNAM.
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| 00:16:26 944 |
PAN FROM PLUSH RICE PADDIES TO GREEN HILLS IN VIETNAM.VOICE OVER, "THE LAND OF VIETNAM IS LUXURIANT, BUT IT'S A WAR ZONE NOW, AND HAS BEEN FOR MANY DAYS AND MANY YEARS".
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| 00:16:46 964 |
CU MONTAGE CHEERING AND CHANTING YOUTH, SHOUTING SLOGANS. YOUNG MEN PLAYFULLY THROW YOUNG VIETNAMESE FIGHTER INTO AIR AND CATCH HIM. HUGE CROWD CHEER NO. VIETNAMESE FIGHTER ON STAGE. LOTS OF KISSING AND HUGGING AS CHEERING GETS INTENSE. CU REPORTER WITH HAND HELD FILM CAMERA PRESSED TO HIS EYE.
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| 00:18:19 1057 |
CU BLACK HANDS, WHITE HANDS SIGNING SOLIDARITY WITH VIETNAM PLEDGE.
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| 00:18:38 1076 |
CU FACE SHOT SMILING 13 YEAR-OLD N. VIETNAM BOY WHO IS A MESSENGER IN A PARTISAN ATTACHMENT N. VIETNAM SHAKES HAND WITH YOUNG ADMIRERS. MANY GIFTS FOR THE VIETNAMESE INCLUDE MOTOR COACH, FARM MACHINES, ETC.
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CU HAND OF GERMAN GIRL AS SHE SINGS SONG SHE COMPOSED ABOUT VIETNAM CU FACE SHOT OF GIRL. YOUTH WALKING WITH VIETNAM POSTERS AS VOICE OVER OF GIRL SINGING IS HEARD.
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TILT DOWN AMERICAN EMBASSY BUILDING IN SOPHIA AS SEEN FROM BARS OF BALCONY ACROSS THE WAY. CROWDS PICKET OUTSIDE EMBASSY. MARCH DOUBLE TIME AND CHANT SLOGANS, AS THEY CARRY SIGNS AND BANNERS. ABOVE VIEW, SAME. PEOPLE IN EMBASSY WINDOW LOOK DOWN AT ANGRY, CHANTING, CROWD.
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BUS ARRIVES WITH YOUNG AMERICANS, IS MET BY VIETNAM OFFICIAL WHO SHAKES THEIR HANDS AS THEY GET OFF BUS. SOME CARRY INFANTS. VOICE OVER, "THESE AMERICANS ARE HAVING A BAD TIME OF IT BACK HOME. TO OFFICIAL AMERICA THEY ARE ENEMIES, .BUT TO THE VIETNAMESE, THEY'ER FRIENDS ...".
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| 00:21:19 1237 |
BLACK ACTIVIST AMERICANS GIVES SPEECH ANTI-AMERICAN SPEECH AS YOUNG AMERICANS ATTENDING LOOK SADLY ON. BLACK ACTIVIST SPEECH MAKER HUGS VIETNAMESE AFTER SPEECH. VOICE OVER, "A GET TOGETHER BETWEEN THE AMERICANS AND VIETNAMESE WAS THE MOST DRAMATIC AT THE FESTIVAL"..
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| 00:22:11 1289 |
CU YOUNG AMERICAN MAN BURNS HIS INDUCTION CARD FOR THE ARMY. PAN AMERICANS CHANT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, "NO, NO, WE WON'T GO!"
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CU YOUNG AMERICAN MAN GIVE THEIR NAMES AS JIM JONES, SAYS HE DESERTED THE AMERICAN ARMY IN WEST GERMANY.CU PAN PF OTHERS WHO ADMIT TO DESERTING. ONE SAYS HE SAW HOW THE VIETNAMESE WERE TREATED AND SAW WHAT THE AMERICAN ARMY DID IN VIETNAM. "SO I ASKED MYSELF WHY? .....".
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AERIAL VIEW HUNDREDS THOUSANDS WITH CLENCHED FISTS SHOUT SLOGANS, WAVE FLAGS, PRODDED BY VIETNAMESE SPOKESMEN. PAN BEMEDALLED MEN AND WOMEN MARCHING. PAN FACE SHOTS WOMEN CLAPPING AND SHOUTING VIETNAM AT FEVER PITCH. ARAB MEN DOING SAME.
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| 00:25:33 1491 |
AERIAL PAN HUNDREDS THOUSANDS CHEERING CROWDS CARRYING SIGNS,, FLAGS. CU 1ST SECRETARY OF SOVIET YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE SPEAKS TO CROWD. VOICE OVER TRANSLATION. "LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE, VIETNAM FOR THE VIETNAMESE". FACE SHOTS MEN, WOMEN IN AUDIENCE AGREEING WITH SHOUTING REMARKS.
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BLACK AMERICAN (COMMUNIST ?) ACTIVIST SPEAKS TO CROWD. "IT (VIETNAM)IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT IS ONLY WALL STREET, IT IS ONLY THE AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS THAT ARE GAINING FROM THEIS WAR,......".
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VIETNAMESE REPRESENTATIVE OF VIETNAMESE NATIONSL LIBERATION FRONT GIVE SPEECH. AS CROWD SHOUTS "VI-ET- NAM" OVER AND OVER AGAIN. VOICE OVER TRANSLATION. VARIOUS SHOTS GROUPS ARM IN ARM SING SONGS AS THEY SWAY SIDE TO SIDE.
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| 00:28:22 1660 |
FIRST WOMAN COSMONAUT, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA SPEAKS TO CROWD VOICE OVER TRANSLATION.CU FACE SHOTS IN AUDIENCE LISTEN TO TERESHKOVA."WE BELIEVE VIETNAM WILL WIN ...."
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CU FACE SHOT SOVIET WOMAN REPORTER AS SHE SPEAKS, SINGS DRAMATIC MARCHING SONG ABOUT VIETNAM SND ITS STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. PEOPLE MARCH WITH LIT TORCHES AS HER VOICE OVER IS HEARD.
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CROWDS CARRY WREATHS TO MONUMENT FOR THOSE WHO DIED FOR FREEDOM. CU SIGN ON GRAVE: "HE WHO DIED FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM IS NOT FORGOTTEN". TILT DOWN TO FLOWERS. NIGHT S KY IS LIT UP WITH FIREWORKS.
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| 00:33:03 1941 |
ACCORDION PLAYER ALEXANDRO GOMEZ, A YCL LEADER FROM COLUMBIA, AND HIS GROUP OF MUSICIANS
PLAY LIVELY ;ATINO SONG AS THEY MARCH TOWARDS CAMERA.ALEXANDRO WAS PUT BEHIND BARS IN HELSINKI FOR SONG HE WROTE. FRIENDS HELPED HIM GAIN HIS FREEDOM. AT SOVIET FESTIVAL, THEY HEARD A NEW SONG BY GOMEZ. |
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VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG COUPLES DANCING TO LATINO MUSIC BEING PLAYED BY GOMEZ AND HIS GROUP. CU GOMEZ PLAYING ALONG WITH GROUP.
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| 00:35:52 2110 |
GROUP FROM GREECE (?) DO GREEK DANCE AT BUS STOP. CU SHOTS HANDS PLAYING ACCORDION, BASE AND GUITAR (ETHNIC MUSIC). AFRICAN GROUP DANCE TO NATIVE AFRICAN MUSIC. WOMEN, SHIRTLESS AFRICANS DOING LIVELY DANCE. MEN IN CHEF HATS, COOK MEAT ON OPEN BARBECUES. PEOPLE AT TABLES ENJOY THE OUTDOOR SHOW, APPLAUD THE MUSIC.
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| 00:37:20 2198 |
RUSSIAN WOMEN IN GOWNS DANCE ON STAGE WITH MEN IN COSSACK UNIFORMS. CU MALE DANCER DOES FAST, EXTRAORDINARY RUSSIAN DANCE. ETHNIC MUSIC, DANCE. PEOPLE JOIN IN THE RUSSIAN DANCING. AERIAL VIEW PEOPLE DANCING IN CIRCLE AROUND GROUP IN CENTER OF CIRCLE.
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| 00:38:37 2275 |
YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN SPEAKS OF THE EXPERIENCE. YOUNG JAPANESE MAN RIDES ALONG ON STREET ON SMALL MOTORBIKE LOADED WITH HIS BELONGINGS. IT TIIK HIM 5 MONTHS TO GET TO SOVIET UNION.
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| 00:39:10 2308 |
SMALL CAR WITH MAN AND GIRL STANDING ON SEATS WITH BODIES PROTRUDING FROM SUN ROOF TELLS OF HIS JOURNEY FROM GERMANY, COMMENTS TO CAMERA. VOICE OVER TRANSLATION.
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| 00:40:26 2384 |
CROWDS GATHER WITH BANNERS AND SIGNS EXPRESS THEMSELVES AGAINST NEO-NAZISM. REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WEST GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF PERSONS VICTIMIZED UNDER NAZISM, DRAMATIC SPEECH. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES.
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| 00:41:38 2456 |
CROWDS AT THE GEORGI DIMITROV MAUSOLEUM P;ACE WREATHS. FACE SHOTS OF MEN AND WOMEN AT EVENT AS VOICE OVER DIMITROV'S WORDS AT HIS LEIPZIG, GERMANY TRIAL, ARE HEARD, WHEN FASCISM FIRST CAME TO POWER. SOLEMN CEREMONY IS HELD FOR DIMITROV.
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GROUP OF WEST GERMANS HAND OUT LEAFLETS AT THE ANTI NEO-NAZISM MEETING. FESTIVAL DID NOT ACCEPT THESE LEAFLETS AND MANY OF THEM ARE BURNED. SHOTS OF PEOPLE BURNING LEAFLETS. THE LEAFLETS WERE AGAINST VIEWS OF THE FESTIVAL.
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ANOTHER WEST GERMAN GROUP FROM PROGRESSIVE GROUP JOURNAL, WHO WERE TAKEN TO COURT BY WEST GERMAN OFFICIALS, FOR EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWS THAT THOSE THAT WAGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM, MURDERERS. SIT AT TYPEWRITERS AND EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS.
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CU CIGARETTE IN HAND OF MAN AT TYPEWRITER. MAN AT TYPEWRITER TAKES PUFF OF CIGARETTE AS HE TYPES AND TALKS TO OTHERS. CU HANDS TYPEWRITING RAPIDLY, WITH TWO FINGERS
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| 00:45:28 2686 |
JOURNALISTS ASKED THE FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS WHAT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN? THE ANSWER WAS, "BOOKS, DANCING AND AUTOMOBILES:, BUT POLITICS ABOVE ALL". FACE SHOT SAM POKEVIN OF ANGOLA, TILT DOWN TO HIS CRUTCHES. VOICE OVER, hE WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL YOU THAT COLONIALISM, WAS A DEADLY ENENY".
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CU FACE SHOT MIDDLE AGED ANTONIO AMACIELOS OF GREECE AND CU YOUNG BLACK PORTUGUESE GIRL KATINA,, WERE TWO GENERATIONS OF REVOLUTIONARIES.
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BUS DOOR OPENS AND GREEK POLICE LET OUT ANTI FASCISTS AND DEMOCRATS IN GREECE. AMACIELOS, LEADER OPF GREEK DOCTORS UNION HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN LIKE MANNER, PAN ISLAND WHERE AMACIELOS WAS HELD. HE STOOD BY HIS CONVICTIONS.
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CU MACIELOS TELLS HIS STORY. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES.
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B/W FILM SHOTS OF KATINA IN AFRICAN GUNGLES SHOWS KATINA IN ONE OF THE UNITS OF NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY. CU KATINA TELLS HER STORY. VOICE OVER TRANSLATION.
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| 00:48:24 2862 |
VARIOUS SHOTS GET TOGETHERS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN AT FESTIVAL. MEN HUG EACH OTHERS. VARIOUS SHOTS GET TOGETHER BETWEEN SOVIET WOMEN AND ARAB WOMEN.
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VARIOUS SHOTS SOVIET COSMONAUT ALEXIANOV SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS. SOVIET YOUTH AND YOUNG GIRLS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA GET TOGETHER, DANCE, SING.
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YPUTH VISIT DESIGN AND STEEL COMPLEX IN BULGARIA. BUILT WITH THE HELP OF THE USSR, WALK THROUGH WITH SOME OF THE HARD HAT WORKERS. VARIOUS SHOTS OF COMPLEX.
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VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE MANY MONUMENTS IN BULGARIA. VOICE OVER, BULGARIA HAS MANY MONUMENTS... OF BROTHERHOOD. SHOTS HUGE MONUMENT WITH STATUE OF SOLDIER. MONUMENT IS CALLED IDOSHA (?), "GO TO IDOSHA,PEOPLE SAY". OR "I'LL MEET YOU IN IDOSHA". WHO IS THE FIRST TO SAY THAT IS UNKNOWN, BUT NOW EVERYONE DOES .......".
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AERIAL PAN HUGE STATUE ATOP HILL OVERLOOKING THE COUNTRYSIDE. AERIAL PAN OF ANOTHER MONUMENT 9ON HILL OVERLOOKING OTHER HILLS. "WHERE THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES, FIGHTING THE TURKISH CONQUERORS".
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CROWDS OF FESTIVAL YOUTH, ENTER BULGARIA SOVIET FRIENDSHIP HOUSE WHERE SOVIET YOUTH HELD THEIR GET TOGETHER IS FILLED TO OVERFLOW. HOSTESSES PAS OUT PIES, FLOWERS TO GUESTS.
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CU FACE SHOTS MEN SINGING RUSSIAN SONGS IN 4 LANGUAGES. VARIOUS SHOTS FACE SHOTS WOMEN SMILING AS THEY LISTEN. BAND PLAYING,SINGING, DANCING IN PLACE, LIVELY RUSSIAN SONG
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PAN UNIFORMED RUSSIAN BRASS BAND PLAYING, COUPLES DANCING WALTZ TO THE MUSIC, THEN DOING LINDY HOP AS MUSIC GETS JAZZY.
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NEXT DAY HEAVY RAIN, BUT CROWDS ATTENDED A FESTIVAL CARNIVAL, WITH BANDS PLAYING AS THEY MARCH. DIXIELAND BAND RIDING IN SMALL PANEL TRUCK, PLAY THEIR DIXIELAND MUSIC. CROWDS MARCH EHIND WITH LARGE CARTOON HEAD MASKS.
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VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS IN THEIR COUNTRY"S COSTUME MARCH AND DANCE. CROWD CARRYING FLAMING TORCHES. MARCH DESPITE HEAVY RAIN. MANY WITH UMBRELLAS. CU HEAVY RAIN HITTING GROUND.
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CU FACE SHOT EDITH JAFFA (?) RUSSIAN SINGER, AS SHE SINGS SONG ABOUT A BELOVED AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL
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VARIOUS SHOTS CROWD ATTENDING OUTDOOR BEAUTY CONTEST. PRETTY WOMEN PARADE IN GOWNS, HOLDING UP AN IDENTIFYING NUMBER. MEN HUG, KISS AND PRESENT PRETTY GIRLS WITH FLOWERS.
CU MONTAGE FACE SHOTS PRETTY WOMEN OF VARIETY NATIONS. CU FACE SHOT EDITH JAFFA (/) SINGING. |
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VARIOUS SHOTS 15 YEAR-OLD FROM BULGARIA, WINNER OF BEAUTY CONTEST. SHE POSES FOR VARIOUS ARTISTS IN STUDIO. SHOTS OF VARIOUS ARTISTS AS THEY WORK. CU SOME OF THEIR WORK.
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VARIOUS SHOTS WOMEN IN ALIKE NATIVE COSTUME DOING LIVELY DANCE (BULGARIAN ?) ENTERTAINS CROWD ON OUTDOOR STAGE. ETHNIC DANCE.MEN PASS AROUND BOTTLE (LIQUOR ? ACCORDION, DRUM AND OTHER WIND INSTRUMENTS PROVIDE MUSIC. YOUNG GROUPS JOIN IN ETHNIC DANCE. PEOPLE HAVING SNACKS. GREAT SMILING FACE SHOTS. BLACK, WHITE , ORIENTAL, ARAB.
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AERIAL VIEW BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN RANGE, LUSH ROLLING HILLS, RESORT AREA AND BEACH, FARM LANDS, OTHER LANDSCAPES, POPULATED AREAS, AS VOICE OVER SONG COMPOSED IN BULGARIA 100 YEARS AGO, IS SUNG BY CHOIR.
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