Mr. Khruschev Entertains Schoolchildren At The Kremlin (1961)

Kremlin, Moscow. MS. Great crowd of children walk along road led by men playing piano-accordian. Lights decorate side of street. CU. Huge effigy of Father Christmas with its mouth moving. Panning GV. hundreds of children in St. George’s Hall in the Kremlin dancing round huge revolving fir tree which is decorated. CU. Little girl sitting on Father Christmas’s shoulder. CU. Revolving fir tree. Good CU’s. children watching man dressed as a bear, he is on a tiny bicycle and rides up to small girl who is sitting in a hoop and picks her up. Very good shots of children dancing, some in traditional dress, with cut-ins of children watching. MS. Mr. and Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev Secretary of Soviet Communist Party arrive and start to applaud the children. CU. Children applauding in return. MS. Mr. & Mrs. Krhushchev sit down. MS. Group of small girls dancing in ballet sequence. CUs. Small girls surrounding Mr. Khrushchev. CU. MS. Mr. and Mrs. Khruschev holding flowers. Mr. Khrushchev with his arm round young boy. GV.