A Word about the Soviet State (1967)

Movie №40949, 6 parts, Duration: 0:47:18
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Studio Sverdlovsk newsreel studio

Annotation:

A film from the film course "Social Science". The story of the birth, creation and development of the USSR is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

Reel №1

Cartoon: political map, capture of European territories by Nazi troops, attack on the USSR. Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945: Explosion.

Bombing of cities.

Destruction of buildings.

Attack of motorized rifle troops.

Soldiers in ruins.

Burning house, villagers.

Burning field.

Woman with a child in her arms.

Ears of corn against the background of flames.

German tank.

Ground combat operations.

Conference of commanders.

Transportation of a gun.

A soldier lays a mine.

Artillery battery.

Manufacturing of shells in factories.

Completion of aircraft assembly.

New tanks.

Locomotives carry tanks to the front.

Alternation: tank troops, aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops.

Combat operations in cities, destroyed houses.

Soldier with a flag.

Detachment at the entrance to the building.

Soviet soldiers with a flag on the roof of the Reichstag.

Soviet troops marching along Red Square.

Fallen German flags.

Alternation: flags against the sky, festive demonstrations, dancing people.

People walking along Red Square.

Palace of Congresses, people gathering in the hall.

Entrance gate of the Uralmash plant.

Workers walking into the plant.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: Protest rallies and demonstrations.

Revolutionary leaders addressing the people.

Soldiers climbing the porch.

Photograph. V.I.Chapaev with soldiers. K.E.Voroshilov.

Red Army soldiers.

Photographs.

Putilov plant.

Plowman in a field.

Spring sowing.

A woman cutting ears of grain with a sickle.

Threshing.

A man leaving the building.

Sentries on the porch.

City streets.

Caricatures.

The ceremonial exit of the royal family with their confidants.

Members of the Provisional Government.

Soldiers rocking A.F.Kerensky in their arms.

People behind the fence.

Soldiers.

Armored train.

Tanks.

Armored cars.

Warships.

Soldier squads.

Cartoon: foreign intervention scheme.

Religious procession.

Persons:

Budyonny S.M. -- Marshal of the Soviet Union

Three times Hero of the Soviet Union

Commander of the First Cavalry Army of the Red Army during the Civil War

1st Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR

Commander of the cavalry during the Great Patriotic War

Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the USSR for horse breeding. Maltsev T.S. -- breeder

innovator of agriculture in the USSR

Honored Worker of Agriculture of the USSR

twice Hero of Socialist Labor

Honorary Citizen of the Kurgan Region

Honorary Citizen of Russia. Lenin V.I. -- revolutionary

statesman and political figure. Chapaev V.I. -- Russian and Soviet military leader

participant in the First World War and the Civil War. Voroshilov K.E. -- revolutionary

military leader

statesman and party figure

Civil War participant

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of Socialist Labor. Romanov N.A. (Nikolai II) -- state

political and military figure

Emperor of All Russia. Kerensky A.F. -- Russian political and public figure

Minister-Chairman of the Provisional Government.

Calendar:

1941-1945 1917-1923

Shooting locations:

Russia Moscow Petrograd Sverdlovsk Berlin

Reel №2

Chronicle of the early 20th century: Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars.

Propaganda poster.

Soldiers at a railway station.

Photograph.

Boarding a train.

The train is going to the front.

Explosions.

Cartoon: the borders of Russia during the Civil War.

Pages of foreign newspapers.

Cartoon: European cities that supported the unrest in Russia.

Newspaper pages.

Cartoon: the movement of the Red Army.

Alternation: cartoon, detachments of the First Cavalry, military operations.

People in boats.

Soldiers holding back the crowd.

A steamship at the pier, a crowd on the pier.

A quote from V.I. Lenin.

Photographs.

Starving children.

Excerpts from Lenin's plan for the socialist transformation of Russia.

Industrialization.

Workers at the first Soviet construction sites (people dig and remove earth, lay foundations, build factories).

Construction of a railway.

Coal cars. A.G. Stakhanov in a mine.

The crowd greets A.G. Stakhanov. N.S. Smetanin.

The Vinogradovs, female weavers working on multiple machines, in their workshop.

Craftsmen inspect the finished fabric.

The dam of a hydroelectric power station.

Alternation: factory buildings, workers at metallurgical enterprises.

Collectivization.

Photograph.

A man chopping straw.

A man feeding a horse.

People digging poles into the ground.

Adults with children.

Plowing the land.

Harvesting.

A meeting of collective farmers.

Voting.

A shot, a man hiding a sawed-off shotgun under the hem of his jacket.

People at a funeral.

Peasant rallies.

Tractor drivers in a field.

Trains with new agricultural machinery.

A public holiday at the opening of the Great Fergana Canal.

The start of water.

Cotton harvesting.

Residents of cities in the USSR. Cartoon: the quantitative ratio of workers and collective farmers in the country in different years.

Voting at polling stations.

Persons:

Stakhanov A.G. -- Soviet miner

Coal industry innovator

founder of the Stakhanovite movement

Hero of Socialist Labor. Smetanin N.S. -- leader of the Stakhanovite movement in the shoe industry

Deputy People's Commissar of Light Industry

Hero of Socialist Labor. Vinogradova M.I. -- multi-machine weaver

Hero of Socialist Labor. Vinogradova E.V. -- multi-machine weaver

process engineer.

Calendar:

1920s-1930s

Shooting locations:

USSR Ivanovo region Kostroma region Leningrad Tajikistan

Reel №3

Pages of a criminal case.

The courtroom of the Supreme Court of the USSR. O. V. Penkovsky. G. M. Wynn.

Fragment of a court hearing.

Journalists.

The street in front of the courthouse.

A water sprinkler on the square.

The police take away drunks.

Sobering-up center.

Drunk detainees.

Photograph.

Cartoon: a bottle of vodka turns into a noose.

An arrested person during interrogation.

The criminal is put in a car.

The car drives out of the gate.

Workers in factory shops, production and processing of parts.

Doctors talking.

Surgeons performing an operation.

Recreation area on the embankment.

Port cranes, a ship at the pier.

An asphalt paver behind the bushes.

Blooming roses.

Vacationers on the beach.

An asphalt paver.

Night snow removal on the roads of the polar zone, a blizzard.

Installation of power transmission lines.

Installation of satellite communications.

The sun over the tundra.

A diver descends into an ice hole.

Closed coal mining.

Calculations on the arithmometer.

Influx: entries in the journal, abacus, arithmometer.

Signaling on the board.

Dispatcher at the control panel.

General view of the control room.

Factory buildings.

Train in clouds of smoke.

Work in the shops of metallurgical enterprises.

Milk bottles on the conveyor.

Worker on a machine with a jackhammer.

Shops of a weaving factory.

New cars.

Cars rolling off the conveyor.

Workers of the Moscow Watch Factory.

Workers of the Moscow Thermal Automation Plant.

Transport aircraft An-22 "Antey".

Unloading the aircraft, special equipment coming out of the hatch.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, automatic rolling mill.

Alternation: equipment parts, pipe rolling.

Moving pipes on a suspension.

A worker inspects electric motors.

Persons:

Penkovsky O.V. -- Soviet military figure

spy. Wynne G.M. -- British spy

MI6 agent

Penkovsky's liaison officer O.V.

Calendar:

1962 11.05.1963

Shooting locations:

USSR Moscow Sverdlovsk Sverdlovsk region Siberia

Reel №4

Turbine hall.

Woman climbing the ladder.

Working mechanism.

Work at a metallurgical plant.

Machine-building plant workshop.

Production of synthetic materials.

Production of mineral fertilizers.

Fertilizing fields from the air.

Grain field.

Harvesting.

Workers at the plant construction site.

Cartoon: construction development map.

River waves.

Forest panoramas.

Tower.

A stream of water gushes from the ground.

Gold mining.

Workers at the control panel.

Miners in a tunnel.

Cartoon: plan for the development of Siberia and the Far East.

Cultural revolution.

People on an excursion in an art gallery.

Chronicle of the 1920s: Peasants and workers during school lessons.

Portrait of V.I.Lenin.

Running line: an excerpt from the plan for scientific and technical work.

Meeting of scientists, a man writing on the board.

Scientists at the control panels.

Yu.A.Gagarin.

Rocket launch.

Scientists at the control panels.

Working with hazardous substances using remote control.

Laboratory equipment.

Chemical experiments.

A scientist looks through a microscope.

Working on research equipment.

Soviet scientists.

A meeting in the Palace of Congresses.

Students go to class.

The Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Educational experiments.

Doctors observe an operation.

Schoolchildren.

A girl cuts a ribbon.

Children climb the steps.

Children arrange teaching aids on their desks.

A teacher operates classroom automation.

French lessons.

Music lesson.

Exhibits and visitors to the exhibition halls.

An artist paints a wall.

A man turns levers.

The light is turned on.

A view of the stage from above.

Shooting a feature film.

Presentation of the Nobel Prize to M.A. Sholokhov.

Printing of newspapers and magazines.

Ostankino Tower.

Persons:

Gagarin Yu.A. -- pilot-cosmonaut

Hero of the Soviet Union. Sholokhov M.A. -- literary and public figure

writer

screenwriter

twice Hero of Socialist Labor

Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1965.

Calendar:

1920s 12.04.1961 1965

Shooting locations:

USSR Siberia Moscow USA

Reel №5

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Reel №6

Foreign news: Alternating footage of military landings, combat operations, mass riots and organised protests in different countries around the world.

Military parade on Red Square in Moscow.

Parade of fighter aircraft.

Delegates to the 23rd Congress of the CPSU, the audience gives a standing ovation.

Work on laying a new channel in the Vakhsh River valley.

An all-terrain vehicle drives through the snow.

A sign to Talnakh.

Construction work in Talnakh.

Parachutists training, aerial acrobatics.

Waves.

A research vessel in the ocean.

People seeing off their relatives at the train station.

A crowd of people on the street.

Doctors near an ambulance.

A fire engine with an extended ladder.

Alternation: V.I.Demidov removes an unexploded shell from the wall of a house, people watch. V.I.Demidov descends to the ground.

People run away. V.I.Demidov carries the shell to the car. T.V. Kuzovleva reads a poem.

Faces of the listeners.

Flowers on the parapet.

Alternation: the Eternal Flame burns, T.V. Kuzovleva.

People with wreaths.

Sailors salute.

Wreaths are lowered into the water.

Soldiers take the oath against the backdrop of the USSR flag.

Persons:

Brezhnev L.I. -- statesman and party leader

Marshal of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of Socialist Labor

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Demidov V.I. -- military journalist

writer

TV presenter. Kuzovleva T.V. -- literary and public figure

poet

translator.

Calendar:

08.04.1966

Shooting locations:

USSR Moscow Leningrad

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