The staff had fled the building, leaving a single camera pointing at the door, when a lone Russian soldier burst in, looked quizzically into the camera, hesitated for a second, then smashed his fist straight through the lens. From the former East Germany, I have a grim B&W state TV advertisement for Dega deodorant (as I recall, their female shot-putters preferred to wear odorant), and from Soviet TV I have 1957 footage of a dog called Laika going 'woof', although (sad to say) it doesn't feature the joyful barking of a healthy mutt, but the sound of 30 pounds of asphyxiated canine flesh spontaneously combusting as Sputnik II burnt up in the Earth's exosphere.īut my favourite clip dates from 1968 and comes from the studios of Czechoslovakian Television during the Soviet invasion. Ome people collect stamps, and some collect stamp collectors, but I'm content with my archive collection of Communist bloc television clips. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
