USSR in the 1920s-1930s (1928-1939)

A projectionist approaches a projector.

The projectionist’s hands taking the film out of the box.

Loading the projector.

Opening the curtain.

The seats in the auditorium lower simultaneously.

Film loops in the projector drum.

Spectators enter the cinema hall, the seats lower, the spectators take their seats.

A child on his mother’s lap in the cinema hall.

View of the cinema hall and the central aisle.

The chandelier goes out.

Instruments in the musicians’ hands.

The conductor and musicians before the start of the film screening.

The projectionist adjusts the arc of the projector lamp, starts the film.

The conductor waves his arms.

The musicians of the orchestra play musical instruments, the musicians’ faces.

The toothed drum of the film projector’s tape transport mechanism rotates.

An illuminated window, a curtain outside the window.

A three-section street lamp.

The hand of a woman sleeping in bed, a painting on the wall, a poster, a cafe on the seashore (alternation).

An advertising column in the form of a giant bottle.

A teenager sleeping on a bench.

A view of a trash bin on a city street.

A street child sleeping on the lid of a trash bin.

Closed gates of the Bakhmetyevsky bus depot in Moscow.

A cab driver sleeping in a droshky.

A signboard of one of the cooperatives.

Views of roofs and walls of buildings early in the morning.

Cots with sleeping newborns in a maternity hospital ward.

Faces of sleeping babies.

Windows with open shutters, a tree near the wall of a house.

Benches in one of the parks.

A kiosk selling Borjomi in the park in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

A bench in the park.

View of the facade of the Bolshoi Theater.

A fake hand on a velvet pillow.

View of the upper part of a mannequin in a wig and theatrical costume.

Closed blinds of the display window of Mogutov's liquor store.

A female painted portrait.

View of one of the Moscow streets (from above).

Mannequins in the form of female busts in a hairdressing salon window.

View of one of the buildings.

Mannequin of a seamstress sitting at a sewing machine, behind the glass of a shop window.

View of a part of the wall of an apartment building from the yard.

Mannequin of a cyclist behind the glass of a shop window.

Architectural decorations of one of the buildings.

An abacus at the checkout in a shop before opening.

Entrance to the elevator.

A stuffed dog on the landing.

A typewriter keyboard.

An advertising banner of the State Publishing House over Tverskaya Street.

View of a telephone in one of the institutions.

View of a part of an industrial enterprise.

View of the front of a Peugeot passenger car.

View of the upper part of the bell tower of the Strastnoy Monastery and the building of the Izvestia plant.

Spoked wheel of a passenger car.

View of a part of an industrial enterprise.

The disconnected power supply switch.

Controls of the factory equipment before the start of the working day.

Components and cogwheels of the factory machines.

View of a part of an industrial enterprise.

View of a part of Tverskaya Street, people are starting to come out into the street.

View of a part of the factory whistle.

Closed glass doors of the entrance.

View of an alley (from above), a car is driving along the alley.

A cameraman with a camera on his shoulder comes out of the entrance doors and gets into the car that has pulled up.

Fragment of a poster.

A car is driving along the street (from above), a hand of a sleeping woman.

A car is driving under a high arched bridge, the cameraman is filming while standing in the car, the car is disappearing over the horizon.

Pigeons on the cornices of a church.

A car with a cameraman is driving through a railroad crossing.

View of the seashore.

The cameraman is lying on the rails and filming an approaching train.

Carriages of a passing train.

A leg caught on a rail.

A woman jumps out of bed.

View of a railroad track.

The cameraman leaves a depression near the rail to film the lower part of the train, gets into the car and drives away.

The awakened woman puts on stockings, the car with the cameraman drives through the railroad crossing in the opposite direction.

A car with a cameraman drives along the railroad tracks at high speed.

A woman gets dressed.

Changing the lens on the camera.

A woken up street kid starts scratching himself.

The cameraman's hand turns the camera handle, the face of a woken up street kid.

The lens of the camera.

A woman janitor sweeps trash out of the gutters of the tram rails with a broom.

A drunkard woke up on a bench, the lens of the camera.

View of part of Tverskaya Street in the morning.

A woman approaches a basin of water standing on a chair, starts washing herself, a stream of water from a hose during the morning wash of the bases of lampposts, a stream of water washing a trash can (alternating).

A woman dries herself with a towel.

A woman washing windows.

A girl wipes her face with a towel.

The blinds open.

The lens of the camera focusing.

Blooming lilacs.

Blinds opening and closing, a girl wiping her face with a towel, blinking her eyes.

The lens aperture opening and closing.

View of the tower on the corner of a building on Tverskaya Street.

A cameraman sets up a camera on one of the bridge structures.

The gates of an aircraft hangar rise, mechanics snatch planes from the hangar.

Lubricating tram rails.

Trams drive out of the depot gates.

A cameraman stands on a metal arch, a tram passes by.

Passenger buses drive out of the gates of the Bakhmetyevsky Bus Depot garage and head off on city routes.

Fragments of posters and advertisements.

A girl sleeping on a park bench, a tram passes behind.

Camera lens, girl's legs.

The girl gets up from the bench and runs away.

View of one of Moscow's squares, tram traffic on the square (above).

Glass display case of "Mostorg".

View of one of the intersections (top), trams and cars pass the intersection.

A cameraman with a camera over his shoulder passes the entrance to a movie theater.

Tram traffic on the square (top).

View of a smoking factory chimney (bottom up), the face of a stoker working at the firebox.

Trams and buses pass the intersection (top).

A cameraman with a case over his shoulder climbs up a factory chimney using brackets.

Hands turning on the switch for the electric current and opening the valve.

A worker sets the mechanism in motion.

View of part of the working mechanism of a winch.

A cameraman climbs up the brackets of the chimney, a worker at a textile factory starts up a machine.

The start-up of machines and equipment in the factory shops, the beginning of production processes, alternates with shots of the cameraman climbing up the chimney.

The cameraman, standing on the brackets of the chimney, takes the camera out of the case.

Trams at the intersection (top).

A seamstress at work at a sewing machine.

Legs of an oiler climbing a stepladder.

Lubricating working mechanisms.

A mechanic monitors the operation of a gear-wheel mechanism.

Setting in motion gear-wheel-connecting rod mechanisms.

Production processes in mines, dumping waste rock.

Horse drivers hauling coal in one of the mines.

Legs of workers pushing carts with rock.

View of a platform with carts and a cameraman filming lying down.

View of a part of an industrial enterprise.

Public transport on the streets of Moscow.

A cameraman with a camera on his shoulder walks along metal structures above the railroad tracks.

Traders go to the market.

Panorama of the market fence (from above), the gates open, sellers and buyers rush to the market territory.

Public transport on one of the streets of Moscow.

A cameraman with a camera on his shoulder walks through the market.

Fabric sellers talk among themselves.

Trams pass by.

A woman at the market hangs a dress intended for sale on a pole.

Checking eggs for freshness.

View of one of the streets of Moscow (above).

The shutters on the window open.

Teeth being brushed.

Mogutov's liquor store opens, a mailbox on the wall of a house in Kyiv, a girl passing by drops a letter in the box.

A traffic controller at an intersection turns the semaphore.

Protective blinds rise, an announcement appears about the departure of a steamship from Odessa to Jaffa.

Public transport movement, buses let a demonstration column pass (above).

Views of a fountain.

Shutters open, a girl looks out the window.

A seamstress's mannequin at a sewing machine behind the glass of a store window.

Advertising posters of various stores, a circular panorama of the square, the cameraman turns the handle of a movie camera (combined shooting).

A mechanical doll on a bicycle behind the glass of a store window.

Tram traffic on one of the streets of Odessa.

A postman carries mail on a velomobile, a view of one of the intersections.

Roofs of passenger train cars.

Tram traffic on a city street.

Windows of passing carriages of a passenger train.

A cameraman is filming, having fixed the camera to the footboard of the carriage.

Trams and automobiles on a city street.

A passenger train is passing.

View of a passing train from below.

Passengers are getting off at the station square.

Cabbies are waiting for passengers.

A cameraman is filming passing cabbies.

Passengers are sitting in an open automobile.

The automobile with the cameraman is moving off.

The cameraman is filming the movement of automobile and horse-drawn transport from the automobile.

Wheels of a locomotive, a cameraman is filming cabbies with passengers from the automobile, the wheels of the locomotive are turning.

The bottom of the carriages of a departing train.

Passengers are riding in carriages and automobiles, the cameraman is filming, standing on board the moving automobile.

Faces of passengers.

The horse harnessed to the carriage starts to gallop, the cameraman is filming.

Passengers' faces and views of city streets (still frames).

A girl's face in film frames.

View of the embankment illuminated by lights during the night festive fireworks.

View of the industrial enterprise illuminated by lights during the night shift, the crane is working.

View of the glass roof of one of the workshops.

Operation of units of various mechanisms, faces of the workers.

Workers in the workshop at the machines in continuous production.

A new team comes on shift, the workers replace each other at the machines.

Faces of the workers, production processes, rotation of crankshafts, workers at the machines (alternation).

People go to the House of Culture for Yaroslavsky's lecture.

People enter the doors of the House of Culture.

Glowing windows of the House of Culture, silhouettes of people in the windows.

The lights in the hall are turned on.

Views of the hall, chandeliers under the ceiling.

Chairs in the auditorium.

People hand in their outerwear to the cloakroom.

People leave the House of Culture.

The cloakroom attendant gives people galoshes.

A man with a child enters the House of Culture.

People in the foyer of the House of Culture.

Faces of the teacher of the children's corner of the House of Culture, a girl and her mother.

Children playing with building blocks in the children's corner.

Toddlers sliding down a wooden slide.

Children playing with building blocks and nesting dolls.

Figures of people and animals molded by children from plasticine.

A girl putting a doll to bed.

The children are lying down to rest on the sofa, the teachers are reading a book to them.

People playing chess in the House of Culture, a panorama of the chess tables.

Playing dominoes, the players' faces.

People taking their seats in the auditorium.

People entering the auditorium.

Yaroslavsky E.M. giving a lecture from the rostrum, a view of a part of the auditorium.

A tractor from the Krasny Putilovets plant drives onto the stage, people in the auditorium applaud, a view of the front of the tractor with the plant's brand.

Views of a night demonstration under the slogan of the early fulfillment of the first five-year plan, a banner with the slogan at the demonstration.

Electric light advertising in one of the Western countries.

Views of city streets with electric lighting and advertising, car traffic on the streets in one of the cities of Western Europe.

Carousels in an amusement park.

Dolls depicting musicians.

Desserts and fruits served in night restaurants and cabarets.

Customers eating and having fun in night establishments.

Jazz playing, women dancing.

Views of a dance hall, Negro jazz playing, faces of dancing customers.

View of part of an automatic beverage bottling line.

Speech by US President H. Hoover at a reception.

View of the reception hall (top).

Hoover speaking in front of a microphone.

Night combat operations using tanks, artillery, airships and chemical weapons (staging).

Warships of the Soviet Navy on a combat training mission.

View of the bow of one of the ships.

A boat on board the ship.

The gun barrels of a Soviet battleship are aimed at a target.

Voroshilov K.E. among senior naval officers on the deck of a warship during the Baltic Fleet maneuvers in 1932. Battle flags are waving.

View of part of an armored car.

Armored car crews in formation in front of combat vehicles during a parade.

Faces of cavalrymen.

The face of a Red Army soldier.

Red Army soldiers in helmets in formation.

A formation of OSOAVIAKhIM fighters passes by (above).

The face of Kalinin M.I., giving a speech.

Armed workers pass along Uritsky (Palace) Square in a ceremonial formation, banners at the parade of OSOAVIAKhIM units in Leningrad.

Faces of young men and women - representatives of the peoples of the USSR.

Panorama of a part of an industrial enterprise.

Agronomists and the chairman of one of the collective farms check the maturity of grain in the field.

A trailed combine harvester during the harvest.

Participants in a meeting in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Voroshilov KE and Stalin IV applaud, standing in the presidium of the All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites in December 1935. The fleet commander's boat goes alongside one of the warships with the crew lined up on the deck.

View of part of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the launch of the Great Fergana Canal in October 1939. Streams of water pour over the dam.

View of one of the canal dams, participants in the ceremonial meeting applaud, standing on the bank of the canal.

Stalin greets the passing troops from the rostrum of the mausoleum, Molotov VM stands behind him.

Rifle units of the Moscow garrison troops pass through Red Square during the parade.