FILM TRANSFER: CZECHOSLOVAKIA DURING SOVIET OCCUPATION - DUBCEK SEEN IN PUBLIC - PRAGUE - ARTISTS DE

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Event Location(s): Prague, Czechoslovakia; New York City, New York | Description: BSP: 0015357 SS (03:59:54:17) RT: 6:12 8-27-68 WR - CZECH CIVILIANS CLIMB ABOARD TRUCK WHICH LATER DRIVES THROUGH STREET CARRYING MEN HOLDING CZECH FLAGS. HIGH LONG SHOT OF STREET SHOWS PEOPLE GATHERED NEAR SQUARE (PROBABLY WENCESLAUS). MAN SMOKES CIGARETTE WHILE STANDING BESIDE SCOOTER. SMALL CROWD GATHERS NEAR MEMORIAL. RED BANNER SUPPORTING OUSTED LEADER ALEXANDER DUBCEK VIEWED AMONG FOLKS STANDING AROUND AND ATOP STATUE. HELICOPTER FLIES OVERHEAD. TRAM PASSES THROUGH SQUARE (PROBABLY WENCESLAUS) AND PAST PROTESTORS ON STATUE. BACK SHOT OF SIDEWALK PEDESTRIANS. MEN & WOMEN SIGN AT PETITION BOOTH. HANDWRITTEN SIGN PROCLAIMS IN GERMAN ULBRICHT WHAT MADNESS; THE EAST GERMAN ARMY IN THE CZECH SOCIALIST REPUBLIC? HIGH SHOT OF LIGHT ARMORED VEHICLE MOVING THRU STREET. HIGH SHOT FROM BUILDING BALCONY LOOKING ACROSS STREET TOWARDS BUILDING WITH IFA AUTOMOBILY ON IT. MEDIUM HIGH SHOT OF CZECHS STANDING NEAR TRUCK. MEDIUM HIGH SHOT OF TANK (WITH PAINTED STRIPE) PARKED ON SIDEWALK. 0015787 SS (04:06:23:18) RT: 1:13 SILENT BW 9-4-68 WR - CZECH PARTY LEADER DUBCEK IS SEEN IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE RUSSIAN INVASION WHEN HE ARRIVES AT A DAMAGED TELEVISION STUDIO FOR TALKS ON THE FUTURE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. SS00143 SS (04:07:44:08) RT: 8:24 5-9-69 SIL COL WR - Signs of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia are evidenced by the Russian flag flying in front of Hradcany Castle seat of the Czechoslovakia parliament; several Russian flags flying around the central Committee Building of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; automobile under a banner reading "Long Live Communism" Russian flags and policemen directing traffic a factory with signs reading "Long Live Communism, Socialism Will Save Us" another factory, Tchekada, with a slogan on the gate reading "Communism is the only way to the future" and portraits of Ludvik Svoboda, Oldrich Cernik, Alexander Dubcek; and Josef Smrkovsky, all Czechoslovakian political leaders. In contrast only Czechoslovakian flags fly in a district where the workers live. Wenceslaus Square, a main thoroughfare, two lovers lean against a wall that still bears traces of bullet holes a factory with the slogan reading "We are for Socialism with human face" and a Russian soldier guarding a monument of a Soviet tank, surrounded by wreathes are also seen. Soviet flags fly in front of the National Theatre and a wide banner across the front of the town hall reads "We are for Socialism." CARTRIDGE: 001 PAGE: 0204 00D7427 CS (04:16:19:16) RT: :31 SILENT BW 4-24-60 WR - Pickets walk along sidewalk in front of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Signs include "Truth is Dead," "Artists Protest Museum Policies," "Mausoleum of Modern Art," "The Modern Museum - Unfair to the Future" and "Why Only One Kind of Painting." Elevated shot of pickets and others gathered ouside MOMA entrance.

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