Teenagers arrested for selling bootleg audio tapes

Teenagers arrested for selling bootleg audio tapes

youth counterculture, bootleggers, illicit, protest

Screengrab taken from the 1960 Russian documentary film Shadows on the Sidewalks.

"It turns out that these teenagers who've traded their schools for the back entrances of GUM are here to sell goods of their own production," The narrator says, "Fox trots on x-ray plates, which in this instance have also recorded the meagre anatomy of their spiritual poverty."

Russian State Film & Photo Archive

1960

500 meters

Russian

Moving Image

Documentary Film

0:41

V. Krasnopolsky, V. Uskov

[translated from Russian, translation provided by Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, an online archive] It turns out these teenagers who've traded their schools for the back entrances of GUM, are here to sell goods of their own production. Fox trots on x-ray plates, which in this instance have also recorded the meagre anatomy of their spiritual poverty. Hey, Zhenya Gorkun, what does the world look like to you through the narrow hole of x-ray rock-n-roll?