Military Strategic Parity
Military Strategic Parity
"Soviet military and political leaders give their views on the earning of parity. Historical glimpses of the bombing of Hiroshima, the beginning of the arms race as World War Two ends, Sputnik, missile-launching practices, the achievement of parity in 1972, followed by the U.S. announcement of plans to achieve superiority, with a goal of 20,000 nuclear warheads. A look at current U.S. Star Wars plans." Arms Race. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
Military Strategic Parity
MCU pan of shelf of 3/4" videotape, a hand selecting one. CU of tape being taken from its case and put into a 3/4" videotape deck (SONY U-matic), pan left to video screen (SONY) playing a newscast about a United States nuclear submarine's practice mission in the event of a nuclear war.
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MS American submarine sailing. MS of American flag flying. MS captain peering through binoculars. MSs shipsmen at controls. MS shipman pulling down periscope. Cut to similar shots of Soviet nuclear submarine and her crew: GV Soviet submarine sailing. MS Soviet navy flag flying. High angle surfaced sub cutting acoss water. MS soviet crew member barking orders. GV Soviet sub submering under water. CU face of Soviet crew member. CU radar screen. Back to United Statesnuclear submarine's practice: GV sub just on the suface of water. MSs American crew at the controls, CU hand on red control to release missile. MCUs Soviet crew assuming emergency posts inside sub. (Military drills. Nuclear War. War Games)
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Montage of documentary film crew filming Russian people on the street (CP-16 camera and reel to reel sound), asking them what they think "military strategic parity" means.
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Hosted by ALEXANDER BORGEN, political observer. MS of Alex sitting at a desk in a newspaper office, talking to the camera. ECU of the camera's focus ring being pulled. He introduces the focus of the film.
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Great LSs of a nuclear surface to air missile taking off at dusk.
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MSs as ALEXANDER BORGEN interviews Soviet Army Maj. Gen. VICTOR TIKTARNYKOV, talking about what "military strategic parity" means.
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Low angle MS of a Russian soldier standing at the bottom of a missile, looking up and into the o-ring. MSs of nuclear scientists inspecting the nuclear payload (CU of what might be the uranium cone). LS of Soviet nuclear submarine sailing. CU of finger pushing button. WLS of intercontinental ballistic missile launching from sub. GV bomber plane landing on runway. Wide LS of American F-14 flying through a steep valley. Wide LS of an American naval carrier. MS of radio tower aboard ship, zoom out to tight LS of vertical landing (VTOL) jet (Harrier?) landing on carrier deck.
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MSs as ALEXANDER BORGEN interviews Soviet Army Maj. Gen. VICTOR TIKTARNYKOV, talking about what "military strategic parity" means.
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CU Soviet air control man. MS MIG jet fighter taxiing on runway. TLS of an airfield full of Soviet MiG fighters; CU of fighter pilot in cockpit; wide LS of MIGs (MIG-25 Foxbats?) in flight.
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MSs as ALEXANDER BORGEN interviews Soviet Army Maj. Gen. VICTOR TIKTARNYKOV, talking about what "military strategic parity" means.
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MS radar system rotating. MCU man at radar control panel. Grainy view of NATO plane on tarmak. Grainy GV plane being loaded.
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MSs as ALEXANDER BORGEN interviews Soviet Army Maj. Gen. VICTOR TIKTARNYKOV, talking about what "military strategic parity" means.
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Grainy MS NATO military cargo truck driving past camera. MCU air control man loking through binoculars. Quick grainy shot of F-14 jet fighter landing on naval carrier. Grainy shot of controler on NATO aircraft carrier. GV pan inside Soviet control room. Low angle MS looking up at radar system spinning.
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MSs as ALEXANDER BORGEN interviews Soviet Army Maj. Gen. VICTOR TIKTARNYKOV, talking about what "military strategic parity" means, general ends with quote, "WASHINGTON WOULD LIKE TO RETURN TO THE DAYS WHEN THEY COULD COUNT ON THEIR SUPREMACY, BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER." Weapons, Soviet Air Force, jet fighters, nuclear, airplanes, military forces, Cold War.
Military Strategic Parity
CUs of film on Steenbeck 35mm flatbed.