K.Sh.E. (Komsomol - Chief of Electrification) (1932)

Charging the Theremin recording apparatus at the Moscow Film Factory during the recording of the overture to the film.

The operator at the camera, setting the exposure.

Setting up the Theremin.

The assistant sound engineer switches the toggle switches, the electric signs light up.

The process of recording music performed by an orchestra in the pavilion, the sound engineer at work.

View of the orchestra (top).

Operation of the units and amplifiers of the sound recording equipment.

The sound engineer at work, the sound track on the film.

The toothed drums of the Theremin rotate.

The operator at the camera.

The assistant sound engineer switches the toggle switches.

View of the pavilion during the recording of music performed by the orchestra (top).

The face of the conductor.

The sound track on the film.

The face of the assistant sound engineer.

Turning off the toggle switch.

The orchestra finishes playing, panorama of part of the pavilion (top).

View of a part of the mausoleum and the Spasskaya Tower on Red Square.

Military personnel on the guest stand.

Red banners above the columns of demonstrators.

Telephone operators at the automatic telephone exchange connect subscribers on long-distance and international lines, faces and hands of telephone operators.

An employee of the radio equipment room of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions asks about the readiness of the transmitter.

Broadcast of a radio program in English, interior view of the studio, the announcer reads the text in front of the microphone (synchronously).

The announcer reads the text in German into the microphone (synchronously).

An employee of the radio equipment room finds out by phone about the readiness of the receiving lines.

An artist in the studio performs the "Comintern Anthem" live on the radio, standing in front of the microphone (synchronously).

The announcer in the studio continues to conduct a radio program in German (synchronously).

Industrial landscape.

Views of the night city (landscapes).

Manufacturing of electric lamps at the Moscow Electrozavod, finished products of the plant.

Manual assembly of lamp parts, installation of spirals, faces of workers.

A girl talks about the work of the Komsomol brigade working on a high-speed line of American manufacture, about the composition of the brigade and its achievements (synchronously and behind the scenes), the production process of manufacturing lamps.

Members of the brigade during work on American semi-automatic equipment.

Operation of units and assemblies of the semi-automatic line, faces of workers, production processes of automatic assembly of electric lamps.

Glowing spirals inside incandescent lamps.

Panorama of the equipment of the finished product testing shop, burning electric lamps on stands.

A worker of the Leningrad Elektrosila plant talks about the main activity of the plant - turbine construction, about the leading role of the Komsomol organization of the plant in the manufacture of the main parts of turbines, about the work of the Komsomol brigade of electric welders (synchronously).

Manufacturing of turbine rotors in one of the plant shops.

Movement of the crane beam.

Transportation of the finished rotor using the crane beam.

Checking the accuracy of the rotor dimensions.

Welders at work assembling a turbine stator.

An American specialist gives the welders instructions on welding the next stator seam through an interpreter.

The interpreter's face.

The American engineer and interpreter leave for another area.

Welders begin welding a stator seam.

An operator in the workshop near a movie camera.

Installing the turbine rotor into the casing, the face of a young engineer, inscriptions on the rotor parts.

The engineer speaks about the transfer of the first electric generator by the Komsomol organization of the plant to the representative of Dneprostroy, about the experience gained by the plant workers (synchronously and off-screen).

The workers inspect the generator.

The film crew near the movie camera.

The plant workers during a break, one of them plays the accordion, the faces of the workers and engineers.

The representative of the Baltic Fleet delegation in the workshop sends greetings to the plant workers (synchronously).

The artists of the naval ensemble in the workshop perform the dance "Yablochko" to the accompaniment of the accordion, the faces of the workers and sailors, the workers applaud.

The process of machining large turbine parts at the Leningrad plant "Elektrosila".

Types of machining turbine casing.

Plant workers manufacturing orders for Dneprostroy.

Production processes in the plant shops, transportation of large parts.

Faces of workers and engineers before the start of the ceremonial meeting.

Musicians of the plant brass band pass by.

The brass band enters the shop, the musicians play on the move, a panorama of a part of the shop filled with workers.

Plant workers before the start of the meeting.

The speaker delivers an opening speech at the meeting dedicated to the release of the first powerful turbine for Dneprostroy (synchronously).

The orchestra plays the "Internationale", a panorama of the orchestra.

The chairman gives the floor to worker Savelyev.

Savelyev gives a speech about the successful completion of the turbine assembly for Dneprostroy, about the Komsomol members fulfilling their obligations, about interruptions in the delivery of parts, about the need to pay special attention to the production of hydroturbines (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the rally participants.

Dneprostroy representative Klimov speaks about the failure to meet the deadlines for the production of the ordered turbine (synchronously).

The orchestra plays the "Internationale".

The speaker speaks at the rally, talks about the difficult situation at the plant, about the need to take into account the mistakes made, talks about the patronage of the Komsomol in the electrification of the country (synchronously and off-screen), the workers listen to the speaker's speech.

Panorama of part of the rally, the workers applaud.

The orchestra plays a march, the faces of the musicians.

Transportation of one of the large-sized parts of the turbine.

Panorama of the village of Dsegh in Armenia (from above).

Panorama of the village.

Views of buildings and a ruined church.

Ruins of the church.

Views of the stone bridge across the Dzoraget River.

Mountain landscapes (panorama).

Shepherds drive a flock of sheep, views of the flock (from above).

View of part of the power line.

Landscapes of the foothills of Armenia.

A locomotive goes across the bridge.

Views of the railway track, exits from tunnels and buildings along the railway.

Views of the Dzoraget hydroelectric power station.

View of the rally at the dam of the hydroelectric power station.

People sit on a concrete slope waiting for the rally to start.

Construction management at the opening of the rally.

An orchestra of national instruments plays.

The chairman of the rally gives the floor to foreman Gabrielyan.

Gabrielyan delivers a speech (synchronously, in Armenian).

Panorama of applauding rally participants.

The orchestra plays an Armenian melody.

The head of the 1st section Sakharnikov gives a speech about the results of the construction of the hydroelectric power station (synchronously and off-screen), the participants of the rally sit on concrete slopes and listen to the speaker.

The participants of the rally applaud, the orchestra plays a melody.

Another speaker gives a speech (synchronously, in Armenian), a view of part of the rally, people are standing on the dam.

The secretary of the Komsomol organization Manukov gives a speech (synchronously and off-screen, in Armenian), faces of the participants of the rally.

The participants of the rally applaud.

A local teenager performs a folk dance at the end of the rally (above), the audience applauds.

Marietta Shaginyan talks about the history of the construction of the Dzoraget hydroelectric power station, about the construction project, about the local residents who became builders of the hydroelectric power station, about the growth of the ranks of the Komsomol among the builders of the hydroelectric power station, about the built railway tunnel and the new cylindrical gate of the hydroelectric power station (synchronously).

Water pouring over the hydroelectric power station dam, the dam's cylindrical gate in action.

View of a section of the dam with a cylindrical gate.

View of the Dzoraget hydroelectric power station.

Views of the hydroelectric power station's environs.

Water flowing under a slightly open cylindrical gate.

A cameraman films the water flow from the site (above).

A surveyor with a theodolite.

The face of the head of the 1st section.

Views of the cylindrical gate of the hydroelectric power station dam (above).

Streams of water falling from above, faces of local party and Soviet leaders.

Panorama of the water flow through the dam (above).

View of the dam's lattice filters.

View of part of the rocky bank of the Dnieper.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station dam under construction.

Children fishing with rods near the construction site.

Foreign specialists wind up a gramophone while relaxing on the bank of the Dnieper.

A cameraman at the camera.

View of the excavator cabin and boom, a platform with a cameraman hangs from the boom.

Women relaxing on the bank of the Dnieper put on beach suits.

Vacationers on the beach.

Panorama of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station dam.

Streams of water pour over the dam.

View of part of the Dnieper.

People relaxing on the beach near the construction site, sunbathing, dancing to the gramophone.

Loading stone blocks onto a railway platform using an excavator during the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.

Excavator bucket.

The excavator operator in the cabin, the bucket scoops up stone blocks.

Loading stone onto the platform.

The cameraman films from a suspended cradle, streams of water pour over the dam.

View of a section of the Dnieper.

Head of Dneprostroy Winter A.V. walks along the dam under construction.

Komsomol team at the installation of hydroelectric power station units.

Winter's face talking to the foreman and inspecting the construction.

Supply worker, Komsomol member Klimov at the installation of a hydroelectric power station unit.

Installers at work.

Komsomol shock worker Dudnik talks about the difficulties of concrete work, about how Komsomol members coped with it, about the achieved indicators for the number of batches per shift (synchronously, in Ukrainian).

Views of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, transformer substation and the first section of the high-voltage power line.

View of a section of the dam.

A stream of water flows over the dam.

Falling streams of water.

Views of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and transformer substation.

Metal structures of open substations.

Types of equipment of one of the transformer substations.

Insulators on the masts of the line and transformers.

View of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Columns of builders with banners go to a ceremonial rally on the occasion of the commissioning of the first unit on April 17, 1932 (top), the face of a bugler of a military brass band.

Panorama of the ceremonial rally.

Kalinin M.I., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Winter A.V. ascend the tribune.

Kalinin, Ordzhonikidze, Winter on the tribune of the rally, faces of the musicians of the military band.

The head of construction, Winter, speaks from the podium of the rally about the completion of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and its launch (synchronously and off-screen); reporters take down Winter’s speech in shorthand and take photos.

Faces of the rally participants.

Winter finishes his speech and gives way to Kalinin and Ordzhonikidze.

The face of one of the rally participants.

Kalinin and Ordzhonikidze greet the builders of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station from the podium.

A view of part of the rally.

Ordzhonikidze’s face.

A view of a military brass band performing the Internationale.

American engineer Colonel H.L. Cooper delivers a speech from the podium through an interpreter (synchronously, in English); V. Ya.

Chubar stands nearby.

Kalinin’s face.

Cooper gives the floor to the interpreter.

The interpreter reads out the text of Cooper’s welcoming speech (synchronously and off-screen), a panorama of the rally.

Insulators of the transformer substation.

A view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Production processes in the foundry of the Elektrostal plant.

Faces of a furnace operator and steelmaker, hot steel pouring from a ladle.

Insulators of a transformer substation.

Equipment of a high-voltage research laboratory, interior views of the laboratory, the research director conducting a tour for specialists.

Preparation for an experiment.

The laboratory director tells Komsomol members about the importance of electrification in the USSR, about the work of the laboratory, about supplying industry with cheap electricity (synchronously), faces of Komsomol members.

Demonstration of the operation of high-voltage installations in laboratory conditions, the passage of high-voltage discharges between contacts, faces of Komsomol members observing the experiment.