Foreign newsreels (1929-1935)

Telephone operators at work at a New York telephone exchange.

View of part of the telephone exchange equipment.

Views of halls with telephone exchange equipment, telephone operators connecting subscribers.

Demonstration of the properties of fire-resistant fabric.

Firefighters in protective suits made of fire-resistant fabric put on protective masks before testing the protective equipment.

Test participants walk through a burning wooden building and come out unharmed on the other side.

Models demonstrate a new hairspray, the process of creating a woman's hairstyle, hair coloring.

Girls jump into the pool, demonstrating the durability of new hair cosmetics.

Demonstration of new models of women's clothing made of water-repellent materials.

View of excavations in Pompeii.

Panorama of part of Pompeii (from above).

Tennis competition.

Artists in ancient costumes before going on stage.

Fish speed swimming competition in Oregon.

Filling trays with water.

Releasing fish into trays.

People buying tickets.

Fish race in wooden troughs filled with water.

View of one of the Egyptian pyramids.

Bedouins play musical instruments.

Bedouins saddle camels before the start of the race.

Teenagers run to the pyramid.

Teenagers climb the pyramid to watch the camel race.

The judge inspects the condition of the camel harness before the start.

The judge admonishes one of the racers.

Racers lift the camels.

Racers at the start.

The start of the camel race at the pyramids.

Racers cover the distance.

An observation tower on top of one of the pyramids.

The face of one of the elders.

Racers ride downhill from the pyramid.

Racers pass the statue of the Sphinx.

Racers overtake each other along the distance.

The head of one of the camels after the finish.

Apple harvesting.

Panorama of cotton heaps during the cotton harvest.

Agricultural work.

An airplane spraying chemicals.

A combine harvester in a field.

A panorama of slums and plywood huts in which agricultural workers live.

Loading various goods onto ships with the help of cranes.

Loaders pour grain from sacks.

Farmers pour milk from the back of a moving truck.

Destruction of milk stocks.

View of a grain warehouse.

View of a mountain of grain.

Part of the production process at a cannery.

A mountain of grain, a worker with a shovel and a pitchfork on his shoulder walks through the grain.

Journalists at a press conference.

Meeting Mahatma Gandhi in India during the "Salt March" in 1930. Gandhi's face.

People during a meeting with Gandhi.

Experiments with electricity.

View of a bridge in New York.

A ship near the bridge.

The flaps of the observatory dome open.

View of the starry sky, the movement of celestial bodies.

The boom of the crane lowers a bucket.

A train of the ground section of one of the lines of the London Underground passes by.

Legs of passers-by.

People on the streets of London.

Views of the City of London.

Public transport in Trafalgar Square.

View of part of the bridge over the Thames (from above).

People enter the underground station (from above).

Passengers go down the escalators.

Workers mark the time of arrival at work on a special dial.

A working machine.

A telephone on the table.

A clerk is talking on the phone.

Children walk around a lamppost.

People pass by a shop window.

The ceremonial exit of the royal family in St.

Paul's Cathedral.

A view of one of the streets of London at night, illuminated advertisements on the walls of buildings.

Views of London at night.

Panorama of a mass event (top), a politician addresses voters.

Officials get out of their cars and go to the office.

Meeting participants exit onto the street.

Demonstrators walk along a city street.

Cars drive behind the column of marchers.

Cars drive along the street.

Protesters on the city streets, cars parked at the sidewalk.

People get out of their cars.

Trucks on the city square and adjacent streets.

Rally participants wave their hats.

People at the entrance gate to the territory of the British Parliament.

The entrance of the Royal Guard Orchestra.

Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Great Britain L.B. Krasin and head of American famine relief Brown exchange financial documents and shake hands.

Krasin signs documents.

Automobile and horse-drawn transport on city streets.

People on the sidewalk (panorama), men's faces.

City traffic on the streets of London, faces of passers-by.

Views of warships.

Urban and horse-drawn transport on the city streets.

Men in top hats and tailcoats walk by.

View of one of the city streets.

Ceremonial procession in Paris in honor of Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel in 1909. Adjusting the telegraph apparatus.

Politicians leaving the building.

A walking car leaves the garage.

The walking car moves in reverse.

Portraits of physicists.

An astronomer at a telescope.

The dome of the observatory turns.

The astronomer looks into the eyepiece of the telescope.

Hiram Stevens Maxim fires a machine gun he invented, mounted on a wheeled gun carriage.

A train arrives at a station within the city limits, passengers board the carriages.

A racing car being towed to the start by a horse.

The racing cars take turns starting.

The racing cars take another turn on the track.

A disassembled airplane being transported on carts.

The nose of the airplane mounted on a cart.

Spectators at the airfield watch an airplane in flight.

Airplanes taking off.

An airplane flying over the sea.

One of the first seaplanes taking off.

One of the first helicopters before takeoff.

A man and a woman floating on a pedal boat.

Panorama of the Seine embankment in Paris near the Trocadero.

Launching a vessel into the water.

A passenger train passes, a steam locomotive pushes the train in front of itself.

Views of Parisian streets, horse-drawn and automobile traffic, passers-by on the streets.

Trams on the streets of one of the US cities.

Skating on a skating rink.

Women's bandy on field.

Women's dribbling competitions.

A woman talking on the phone.

An old telephone with a handset microphone.

The hammer hits the cups of a telephone ringer during a call.

Men talking on the phone.

Raising the telescope tube.

One of the race car drivers before the start.

Preparing the car for the race.

The race car is rolled out to the start.

The race car drivers cover the distance.

One of the racers finishes.

The "one-man band" performs for the audience.

A spinning human figure.

Horse-drawn traffic on a city street, horse-drawn carriages pass by.

Faces of passengers in one of the carriages.

A woman sits in the driver's seat and wraps herself in a blanket.

Women talk, standing by a car.

A parade of elephants on one of the streets.

Views and panoramas of a part of the flower market.

Panorama of a part of the vegetable rows.

Pedestrians and horsemen at the entrance to the park.

Horse-drawn transport on the streets of Paris.

A mill at the entrance to the Moulin Rouge cabaret, trams pass by.

View of the upper part of the mill with the name of the cabaret.

Performance of the Moulin Rouge artists.

A statue on the Place de la République in Paris, horse-drawn transport movement.

View of one of the Parisian streets, people on the corner of the street.

People at the above-ground metro station (panorama).

Residents of Paris in an amusement park, views of various attractions.

Dancing on one of the streets of Paris.

Children's party.

Waiters carry dishes to be served.

Fragments of feature films with episodes of pursuit of criminals.

View of part of the square in front of the Paris Opera.

Photograph of part of the square filled with people.

Workers are coming home from work.

View of part of the street in a working-class neighborhood.

View of a well-yard (top).

Children playing ball in the yard (top).

View of part of the street in a working-class neighborhood (top).

A large family huddled in one room.

A woman sews on a sewing machine.

A working-class family at the table during lunch.

The unemployed approach a free soup distribution window in Paris in 1929-1933. People eating soup.

A queue for free soup in Paris, a policeman stands nearby.

Adults and children eating soup.

A broken shop window in one of the shops in London.

A police squad on the street.

View of an empty street.

Panorama of part of a destroyed street.

Demonstration in Paris, banners with slogans in the hands of demonstrators.

Views of demonstrations and rallies in Paris (above).

Views of Parisian streets in 1900-1910.

Passengers at the entrance to one of the subway stations in West Berlin in the 1970s.

People on the streets of the city, faces of passers-by.

A car runs over a ramp and flips over during a performance at an auto rodeo.

An unsuccessful jump on a motorcycle over several buses, the motorcyclist falls on his back.

First aid to a fallen motorcyclist.

A demonstration of car stunts, the cars ride on two side wheels.

Faces of sectarians, open mouths.

A meeting of hippies in one of the city parks in the 1960s.

Faces of hippies smoking drugs and dancing half-naked.

A girl buys a dose of drugs (shot with a hidden camera).

A young man smokes a marijuana cigarette.

View of a crowd of people (from above).

A parade of American military equipment before the start of maneuvers.

A tank from one of the NATO countries drives along a pontoon bridge.

The movement of motorcycles and motor columns with infantry.

Conducting exercises.

Equipment on the march.

Providing assistance to a wounded American soldier during the Vietnam War.

The face of an American soldier, a puppy in his bosom.

An American conscript getting a buzz cut.

Conscripts rub the backs of their heads.

Sewing military uniforms.

American soldiers putting on their uniforms and gearing up.

A soldier moves through the reeds, signals a halt.

American helicopters take off.

An American military patrol en route.

A wounded Vietnamese prisoner with his hands tied.

A German Air Force plane landing at an airfield.

German Air Force planes at one of the airbases.

View of the airfield command post building.

Paratroopers from a NATO country at an airfield before boarding an aircraft.

Equipment and weapons on the airfield grass, a sentry standing.

Paratroopers walking along the airfield after a military transport plane landed.

A Concorde plane in flight.

Representatives of various religious denominations during prayer, squadrons of combat helicopters and aircraft fly by.

Faces of those praying.

Flamethrower jet.

NATO soldiers attack a simulated enemy during exercises.

Military actions in Palestine.

View of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon after the bombing in 1982. Panorama of the destruction of residential buildings in Beirut.

Corpses of people near the walls of buildings.

Covering the corpses with tarpaulin.

A small child walks along the street of a refugee camp among lying corpses.

The face of a crying girl.

Faces of Palestinians who have lost their loved ones.

Anti-war demonstrations in Japan.

Dispersal of the demonstration with water cannons.

Destruction of airfield structures and communication towers.

Dispersal of a demonstration in Japan.

Panorama of applauding participants of an anti-war rally at the Capitol in Washington.

American veterans of the Vietnam War rip off their awards and stripes and throw them onto the territory of the Capitol.

Detention of participants of an anti-war demonstration by London police.

Dispersal of an anti-war demonstration in the USA, detention of demonstrators, beating them with truncheons.

Demonstrators carry out a wounded comrade.

Dispersal of a demonstration in Tel Aviv.

Faces of protesting demonstrators.

Detention of demonstrators in Israel.

Girls help a demonstrator who was beaten by the police to walk.

Detention of anti-war demonstration participants by British police.

Clashes between demonstrators and the police.

One of the leaders of the national liberation movement gives an interview.

Clashes between representatives of the black majority in South Africa and the police.

Faces of women and children from the Middle East and Asia.

Faces of children.

A girl in an Asian slum rocks her younger brother in a hammock.

Faces of children.

The face of a crying black child.