Lviv City Day. Millennium of the Baptism of Rus.

Videos and films

ID:
17429
Place
Lviv
Date:
1988
Genre:
Home movies
Technique:
8mm film
Duration:
0:16:31 min
Color:
color
Sound:
Silent
Copyright
Yuriy Studzinskyi
Collection
Yurii Studzinskyi
Description
The film contains footage of the celebrations marking City Day and the millennium of the baptism of Rus’ in Lviv in 1988. 

1) 00:00:00 – 00:01:27 — Lviv. Secondary School No. 9 on Kopernika Street. A group of people at the school entrance. A gathering of friends. Men chatting on the balcony of a flat. A man eating shashlik off a skewer. 

2) 00:01:28 - 00:03:29 — A boy holding a large mushroom. A father with children on a walk. A children’s playground, wooden sculptures, parked cars. Two young women posing on the bank of a pond. 

3) 00:03:30 - 00:10:09 — Lviv. City Day 1988. A miniature hot-air balloon between buildings. A festive poster featuring a lion. An exhibition of vintage cars. A woman and a child waving at the camera. A festive celebration on Lenin Avenue (now Freedom Avenue). Festival-goers and participants. A performance by a musical ensemble. The vaulted dome of the Boim Chapel. The Town Hall tower. A drawing of a lion with an ice cream. A crowd at the entrance to the Town Hall and on Stavropigiiska Square (now Museum Square). The Dominican Cathedral. Performances by dance groups featuring acrobatic routines. A portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev. Two men with a little girl. Footage of visitors to the festivities on Rynok Square, near the Neptune Fountain. Exterior of the Boim Chapel. Costumed performances. A carriage. A spot for souvenir photos. 

3) 00:10:10 - 00:12:48 — Footage of excerpts from television broadcasts of diving competitions, a fashion show, the comedy programme “The Benny Hill Show”, and the television magazine “Bliżej świata”. View from the top floor of a building, presumably on A. Haidar Street (now Akademika Lazarenka Street) towards Podatkovaya Street. 

4) 00:12:49 - 00:15:53 — Celebrations in the courtyard of St. George’s Cathedral to mark the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus’. 

5) 00:15:54 - 00:16:31 — Footage of parked vehicles: Fiat Hobby600 and Winnebago LeSharo motorhomes, motorcycles. A man standing next to a Ford Transit.
Tags:
school, family, walk, mushrooms, holiday, city, celebrations, exhibition, car, architecture, landmark, dance, ensemble, television, priest, Orthodox
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