Foreign Newsreel Number 17

GDR. Construction of the Druzhba Narodov steel plant near Magdeburg with the participation of specialists from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Bulgaria. Launching the first ore carrier from the stocks of the G. Dimitrov Varna shipyard. England. Idle ships, unloaded containers at the Port of London in connection with a nationwide strike of dock workers. The police disperse the strikers. Dockers rejoice, having won concessions from the government and entrepreneurs. Romania. Design department; assembly of buses at the Bucharest Bus Plant, whose team joined the competition to save metal. Czechoslovakia. Production of finished house parts: panels, window frames in the shops of a house-building plant in Western Slovakia. Construction of a residential building. Korea. Production of tractors at one of the Korean factories. Italy Demonstration in the city of Rome of agricultural workers and peasants, demanding a change in agrarian policy and socio-economic reforms in the country. Hungary. Mechanized harvesting of vegetables. Poland, Lower Silesia. Sanatorium in the town of Sokolovsko. The doctor examines the patient. Rest rooms, reading room, garden. Germany, Munich. Solemn opening ceremony of the XX Olympic Games, lighting of the Olympic flame. Competitions in athletics, diving, rowing. Performers are athletes: V. Vasin, Y. Malyshev, V. Borzov.

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