May 1st (1967)

Demonstration of May 1st in Tallinn.

Cameraman high up filming the demonstration. View to the announcers and the second cameraman. Demonstrators are passing the grandstand where the members of the Communist Party and the government are lined up. Long view to the waving flag with the image of Lenin, loud greetings in the background. People in the procession. They carry flags, slogans, transparencies, balloons and bouquets of flowers. Johannes Käbin, Valter Klauson, Artuer Vader on the grandstand, Käbin is repeatedly raising his hat in order to greet the people. Among the marching demonstrators there are columns of industrial enterprises, pupils of the Tallinn 10th Secondary School, staff of Tallinnfilm film studios, Olev Eskola, Heino Mandri and other actors in the column of theatre people. Numerous columns of people passing, a few of the demonstrators have umbrellas. The flags of the Soviet republics and a big flag with the image of Lenin. 

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