13167_8920_cold_war_begins
1959
This clip features is on the beginning of the Cold War, featuring in particular Richard Nixon, Nikita Khrushchev. and President Eisenhower. Open on WS of heads of state at a round table, then cut to a map of Germany with Frankfort and Berlin labeled. The map is divided into “WESTERN ZONES” and “SOVIET ZONE”. In WS, the top of a submarine emerges from the ice. In LS most of the submarine is above the ice with people walking atop it. In an aerial shot, a missile is ejected from a ship. LS of a shuttle taking off for space. LS outside of a gated house in Geneva, then a CU of a sign that identifies it as “VILLA GRETA”. Cut to a zoom in to the entrance of the house, where men walk out of the building from a meeting. MS of the men shaking hands. WS zoom in of Vice President Nixon and his wife disembarking a plane MS of him shaking hands, then MCU of him waving at people. MS of Khrushchev from above, then a MS of him in front of an exhibit. MS of Nixon and Khrushchev shaking hands, appears to be from a telecast earlier in the year. MS of Eisenhower walking into a gated building, then a MCU of him speaking at a podium.