Inside The Gates Of Soviet Russia (1922)

Full title reads: “Inside Gates of Soviet Russia. Private trading practically restored by new Soviet decree - brisk business in the famous Smyolensky Market“. Moscow after the revolution, Soviet Union (USSR, Russia). Various high angled L/Ss of busy outdoor food market. Panning M/Ss of crowds at market. Looks very Russian - lots of fur hats and head scarves etc. Intertitle reads: “Bread - 2,500 roubles a loaf. Meat - 3,000 roubles a lb. - but then 250,000 roubles are only work a sovereign“. M/S of people buying and selling in market place. M/S of a market trader selling stationary (pens, paper etc.) to a man. A group of boys huddle in background laughing and sticking their tongues out at camera. C/U of small child fur hat holding piece of bread. Intertitle reads: “Bulletins posted on all public buildings give World’s news free“. M/S of people looking at large poster covered in writing, stuck to wall of large building - a church? FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPL