GORKY PARK MOSCOW SOVIET UNION 1930s TRAVELOGUE FILM “MOSCOW PARK OF CULTURE AND REST“ XD45704

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This movie was produced by Zoyuzkinokronika (later known as Central Studio) and features footage from 1935 spliced with additional footage shot in 1937-38. (At the time there was a showcase celebrating Chkalov’s first successful non-stop flight to USA.) The film portrays the Central Park of Rest and Recreation of Maxim Gorky in Moscow, now known as Gorky Park, and its highlights. It contains a rare glimpse @2:40 at the early Soviet advertisement culture, much deplored by the contemporary writers, which aggressively featured slogans and mascots, and which was unknown and forgotten by the postwar USSR. 0:10 – 1:10 Panorama of the Moscow park of culture, parachute jump tower (built 1929), cinema building with a portrait of Maxim Gorky OR Joseph Stalin pan towards the “Oriental carpet“ flowerbed, Maxim Gorky’s silhouette portrait and along the main axis of the park tow