Ruptly signs major archive deal to distribute rare footage of famous historical events
Ruptly, the award-winning global video news agency, has joined forces the Russian State Documentary Film and Photography Archive for an innovative new project titled 100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries
The Russian state archive, based in Krasnogorsk, is one of the largest audio-visual archives in the world and home to an extensive film collection spanning the history of filmmaking in Russia. Under the terms of the new agreement, Ruptly will offer its clients unique video footage of major events, many of which had a global impact.
Ruptly has already released the first package for the new project – the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, a story that has come back into the headlines in recent weeks.
Other footage will be released in the coming months and includes:
· The early days of Soviet space exploration: Belka, Strelka, Gagarin, and the space race.
· The fascinating story of Robert Robinson, a Jamaican born toolmaker from US auto industry, recruited to work in the USSR and ended up living there for 50 years (1935)
· Turning points and significant events from the Second World War, such as the Siege of Leningrad 1941- 1944, Kursk battle 1943, the Tehran Conference 1943, as well as rare shots from the Yalta Conference 1945, the victory flag over Berlin 1945, and Victory Day Parade in Red Square 1945.
· Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy meeting in Vienna, 1961
· Young Gorbachev, his rise to power, Perestroika, Glasnost, meeting with HRH Queen Elizabeth II and President Ronald Reagan, and his resignation.
· Yeltsin in Moscow, during the August 1991 coup attempt.
· Tanks at the white house and barricades in Moscow, Autumn 1993.
· Andrei Sakharov, scientist, dissident, Nobel laureate.
· Russian Presidential Elections, 2000.
Matt Tabaccos, chief commercial officer at Ruptly, comments: “This partnership, with a major Russian state archive, allows us to give news clients across the world access to rare footage offering new perspectives on momentous events. By developing and expanding our Archive portfolio, we make our entire video news offering even more attractive.”
The director of the Russian State Documentary Film and Photograph Archive Natalia Aleksandrovna Kalantarova comments: “Making audio-visual documents from our collection available to a wide audience will, I hope, shed light on certain pages of our history and help people gain a more accurate understanding of these significant events.”