Perestroika. First Steps (1985)

Documentary №40564, 2 parts, duration: 0:19:03
Production: Sverdlovsk newsreel studio
Director:E.Kvaskova
Screenwriters:Luchay
Camera operators:Nickiporenko
Sound mixer:Suslov V.

Annotation:

The film explains the first steps of perestroika in the sphere of switching Soviet economy to the market mechanism.

Reel №1

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Moscow, city streets, traffic, view of the Kremlin, embankment, Stone Bridge.

The workshop of the electric plant - various equipment is in the frame, employees work, etc.

The workshop of the weaving factory - employees work.

The plant's workshop - an employee monitors the work of the machines.

Panorama of various machines, modern equipment - a cloth with a pattern is moving on the conveyor.

Streets of the old Estonian city.

The showcase of a clothing store - there are mannequins.

The girl looks at the window, wrinkles her face.

Weaving factory - various production processes are shown.

Clothing store - a saleswoman installs mannequins with new clothing models.

Employees of a weaving factory in production (working at their workplaces).

View from the window on the spire of the old tower (church).

The Estonian Minister of Light Industry, Yuri Andreasovich Kraft, speaks to the correspondent.

Machines are working at a weaving factory.

Close-up - hands at the loom, a panorama of the face of a young weaver.

A canvas of colored fabric moves along the conveyor.

Pedestrians on the narrow streets of the Estonian city.

The showcase of a clothing store - girls stop, look at mannequins, discuss new models, go into the store.

A girl in a store, looks at the mirror as a new blouse sits on her, then tries on a jacket.

A fireplace is burning, a panorama of women sitting at a table discussing new clothing models.

Close-up drawings with sketches of clothing models.

Sewing company - new models are being shown.

Fashion models go to the podium, show fashionable clothes.

The company's employees look at and evaluate new models.

Recreation center, people skiing, buildings of houses are visible.

Dining room, people are sitting at tables, having lunch, an employee brings trays of food.

Vacationers walk in the winter forest.

The building of the Kuibyshev electric plant in Moscow.

The workshop of the plant is the production process.

Alexander Andreevich Tarasov, director of the electric plant, answers the correspondent's questions.

Different production processes in the workshops of the plant, employees work, modern equipment, machines, etc. are shown.

A large-smiling face of a factory employee.

Says Tarasov.

Women in white coats work at tables in one of the workshops of the enterprise.

View of another workshop of the plant.

Says the foreman of the complex self-supporting brigade Ganichkin Gennady Grigorievich.

The workshop of the plant, finished products are moving on the conveyor - electric irons.

The faces of the employees of the plant.

Key words

perestroika

Personnel:

Kraft Tarasov Ganichkin Chivadze

Locations: Estonia [70]

Seasons: Spring [825] Winter [823]

Reel №2

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The workshop of the electric plant, the work of the machine is shown.

Says the director of the electric plant Tarasov Alexander Andreevich.

The workshop of the electric plant.

Says Tarasov.

A mobile crane is working in the workshop, lifting loads.

The work of modern machines and equipment is shown.

The building of the Kuibyshev Moscow Electric Plant.

Georgia, Tbilisi, winter landscape, river view, old town and modern houses on the other side of the river.

Metekhi Temple on a rock above the Kura River.

Panorama of the territory and buildings of the Tbilisi production Association "Elektrovozostroitel".

Workers in the factory shop.

Says the director of the plant, Zurab Davidovich Chivadze.

Factory workshop, conveyor, automated production, modern equipment, etc.

Employees monitor the operation of the machines, control the equipment using a special control panel.

Top view - an office, employees at a table, a man writing something on a blackboard.

Panorama of the front of the electric train.

A new electric train leaves the workshop on rails.

Says Chivadze.

A construction site, a pit, an excavator is working, loaded dump trucks are leaving the construction site.

Panorama of the new buildings of the enterprise under construction.

The territory of the plant - a truck with parts and equipment is driving.

The workshop of the plant is a production process, employees of the enterprise work.

Large- scale monitor of modern equipment.

The company's employees repair and check the equipment.

Large - horns of an electric train.

An electric train is passing by.

Moscow, river, embankment, COMECON building.

Representatives of a foreign delegation are talking on the street.

Suzdal, winter landscape, view of churches, panorama of the road on which the bus "Intourist" is traveling.

Members of the foreign delegation on excursions to Suzdal, churches, etc.

Suzdal, winter landscape, sunset.

Members of the economic forum of the Socialist countries at an official meeting.

The man speaks German, the translator translates into Russian.

Various shots from the meeting are shown - representatives of different countries speak, cooperation issues are discussed, etc.

The correspondent interviews the head of the Polish delegation Erwin Plekhtinsky.

Says Plekhtinsky.

Large - a fire is burning in the fireplace. vorit Plekhtinsky.

View of the river, on the other bank you can see the buildings of an industrial enterprise.

Moscow, the building of the USSR State Planning Committee.

Says the responsible employee of the USSR State Planning Committee, Doctor of Economics Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Senchagov.

Cutting with various production personnel - work in the workshops of enterprises and factories, modern equipment, control panel of instruments and machines, computer center, computers, employees of enterprises, sewing production, clothing models, the train leaves the tunnel (removed from the cab), etc.

Key words

Perestroika, electric plant, electric locomotive plant, construction site, dump truck, excavator, electric train, SEV, Gosplan

Personnel:

Senchagov V. K. - sovetskij i rossijskij uchyonij-ekonomist, predsedatelj Gosudarstvennogo komiteta SSSR po cenam

Locations: Moscow [820] Georgia [83] Tbilisi [859] Suzdal

Seasons: Winter [823] Spring [825]

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