Domestic newsreel (1924-1927)

View of the pediment of the Bolshoi Theater on the opening day of the 4th Congress of Soviets of the USSR, April 18, 1927. Congress delegates in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Delegates on their way to a congress session, checking their credentials at the entrance.

A car drives up to the steps of the Bolshoi Theater.

Rykov AI gets out of the car.

Delegates on the steps at the entrance.

Odzhonikidze GK gets out of the car and enters the Bolshoi Theater, showing his pass.

Delegates walk along the street.

Photojournalists take pictures.

Faces of delegates talking in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Congress delegates on the steps of the Bolshoi Theater during a break.

Kuibyshev leaves the Bolshoi Theater and gets into a car.

Petrovsky GI talks to one of the delegates, standing at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Faces of congress delegates.

Rudzutak Ya.E. and Voroshilov KE At the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater after the first session of the congress.

Voroshilov and Rudzutak get into a car and drive away.

Rykov leaves the Bolshoi Theater after the first session of the congress.

Photo reporters on Sverdlov Square.

Rykov walks away across the square.

Photo reporters with cameras stand at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Congress delegates during lunch in the canteen.

Fabricius Ya.F. at the lunch table next to one of the delegates.

A brass band on Red Square during the celebration of the 13th International Youth Day, September 1, 1927. A column of pioneers passes by.

Leaders of city party organizations and honored guests on the tribune of the mausoleum.

A demonstration column moves along Red Square, a drum and cymbals of a military orchestra.

Komsomol members with rifles over their shoulders walk behind a model of a tank.

A column of first aid workers in white coats passes by.

Kalinin M.I., Budyonny S.M., Uglanov N.A., Yenukidze A.S. on the mausoleum tribune, members of OSOAVIAKHIM in gas masks walk along Red Square.

A column of representatives of the Central Asian republics, Budyonny among the guests of honor on the mausoleum tribune (alternation).

A column of representatives of Chinese youth passes.

Budyonny greets the Chinese guests from the mausoleum tribune.

A cameraman, standing on a stepladder, films the passing columns of youth.

Another column of festival participants passes.

Pioneers carry a model of an airplane, faces of spectators.

Turkeys in the poultry yard.

The curtain opens, behind the curtain is the jury table of the accordion competition in the Tatar club of Podolsk.

Spectators in the hall.

Performances of the competition participants, faces of the spectators.

The spectators applaud, the jury members decide on the winner of the competition.

Closing curtain.

Applauding spectators.

The first Soviet ambulance plane before takeoff from a winter airfield during testing.

People sawing wood during a subbotnik, the face of a man lighting a hand-rolled cigarette.

The pioneers who have arrived for the subbotnik are getting to work.

Faces of pioneers and peasants.

The pioneers pass sawed wood to each other in a chain.

Pioneers are working in the vegetable garden.

Pioneers are helping peasants plough the land, a pioneer is walking behind a plough.

Pioneers are having lunch in the fresh air, scooping up soup with wooden spoons, faces of pioneers and peasants.

Pioneers are reading books and newspapers with peasants, faces of peasants.

The arrival of a pioneer detachment for an excursion to the zoo (above).

Members of the young biologists' circle lead their charges on leashes along the line of pioneers.

An elephant in the zoo enclosure, faces of young spectators.

A kangaroo in the enclosure, pioneers are passing a deer.

Ostriches in the zoo enclosure.

A zoo employee with a baby monkey on her shoulder.

A fur seal jumps into a pool, spectators at the fence.

Young Pioneers play with a wild dingo.

A turtle on a young Pioneer's palm.

A young Pioneer with a turtle in her hands and snakes on her neck.

The snakes slide to the ground.

Children's faces.

A polar bear in an enclosure catches a treat suspended on a fishing line, spectators' faces.

Feeding a polar bear through the bars of a fence.