On their own yardstick. (1994)

The film playfully speaks about ancient history and measures the length of the appearance of the metric system.

The film was filming the following: a man running along the path in the park, performing exercise, the movement of vehicles on the highway in the direction of Tver, Novgorod and St.

Petersburg.

The film includes newsreels for different years: crocodiles move by land, giraffe in savannah, tractor cultivates land movement of the train, plane flight, a ship at sea, the launch of the spacecraft.