20th century (1958)

Newsreel from the end of the 19th century: A steam locomotive passes, one of the first steamships, a tram, a dual-use bicycle, the first cars.

A man tries to take off on wings.

One of the first airplanes flies through the air.

London, the White House in Washington, the Reichstag building in Berlin, Paris – general, medium shots (night).

Panorama of the Eiffel Tower in Paris – medium, close-up.

Arrival of foreign guests in St.

Petersburg.

Panorama: the Sphinx on the bank of the Neva – general shot.

The royal family leaves the palace.

Peter and Paul Fortress – general shot (summer).

The walls of the prison in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The village of Shushenskoye, where V.I. Lenin was exiled – medium, general shots.

The house where V.I. Lenin lived in exile.

Portraits of V.I. Lenin 1899-1900 - close-up.

The book by V.I. Lenin "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" published by Vodovozova - close-up.

Steelworkers at work at an old metallurgical plant, a blacksmith at work, a worker at a machine, a miner with a pickaxe.

Books by V.I. Lenin "What is to be done" published in 1905, "Materialism and Empiriocriticism" published in 1909. A copy of the newspaper "Iskra".

London - general plan (shot from above).

Carriages on a city street - general plan.

Drawbridge on the Thames - medium plan.

Barges on the river.

Metallurgical plant in England.

English warship.

Building of the English Parliament - general plan.

Slaves walking in the English colony - in India.

Great Wall of China - panorama, medium plan.

Primitive irrigation system in China based on cheap human labor.

American landing craft at sea - general plan.

Rickshaws on the streets of the Chinese city of Beijing, paratroopers who arrived to suppress the Boxer Rebellion walk along the street.

Photo: Japanese beheading Chinese.

Statue of Liberty in America - medium shot.

Restoration work - close-up.

New York skyscrapers.

Newsreel: Edison working on the phonograph.

Ladies getting on a self-propelled carriage - an automobile.

Automobile race in America.

Niagara Falls - long shot.

Military parade in Germany.

Training of military personnel (parades?) in Germany.

Wilhelm hunting deer.

Maxim testing his machine gun.

Close-up - medium shot.

Production of heavy weapons at the Krupp plant.

Count Zeppelin - medium shot.

The Zeppelin airship takes off.

Newsreel of the late 19th century: Streets of Paris – long and medium shots.

Parisian market (The Belly of Paris).

Fashionable Parisians pass by.

Parisians in salons.

Parisians having fun.

French artist Renoir working on his canvas.

Renoir’s painting – close-up.

Panorama: Eiffel Tower – long, medium, close-up.

Engineer Eiffel – medium shot.

World’s Fair in Paris, held in honor of the beginning of the twentieth century – medium shot, long shot (shot from above).

Electrical advertising at the fair.

The fair displays a car, hot air balloons, X-rays, the newly created cinematograph, and stills from the first film.

Parisian cafe.

Russian pavilion at the Paris Fair – medium shot.

Mozhaysky’s airplane on a test flight.

List of exhibitors, including the inventor of radio A. Popov.

Popov’s first radio apparatus – close-up, medium shots.

Portrait of A. Popov, awarded the Gold Medal in Paris – close-up. A. Popov's gold medal - close-up.

Italian Marconi, who took out a patent for wireless telegraphy in England.

Monument in Kronstadt.

The city of Kronstadt - general plan.

Panorama from the snow-covered shore to the ships frozen in the ice in the Baltic Sea. A. Popov's closest assistant P.N. Rybkin talks about A. Popov's invention of radio (synchronously).

The first radio transmitter.

Mendeleyev's portrait - close-up.

The periodic table of elements compiled by Mendeleyev.

The tsar's prison - the Shlisselburg Fortress.

Former Narodnaya Volya member, revolutionary Morozov, who spent 24 years in the Shlisselburg Fortress, talks about his meeting with Karl Marx (synchronously).

St.

Petersburg - general plan.

The building of St.

Petersburg University - general plan.

University corridor - medium plan.

Religious procession in one of the cities of Tsarist Russia - general plan.

Repin's painting "Religious Procession" - medium plan, close-up.

Newsreel from the end of the 19th century: I.E. Repin with friends on a walk.

Telegraph line in a snowy field – long shot.

Street of an old village – medium shot (winter).

Outskirts of Ryazan – long shot.

Portrait of I.P. Pavlov – close-up.

Works of I.P. Pavlov in an old edition.

Medal – I.P. Pavlov’s Nobel Prize.

The town of Kozlov – long shot (summer). I.V. Michurin on a walk in his garden, trying hybrid fruits.

Coat of arms of the city of Kaluga - close-up.

House of a noble family in Kaluga - medium shot.

House of K.E. Tsiolkovsky.

Newsreel: K.E. Tsiolkovsky, working on a rocket engine in his workshop.

Rooms of the Tsiolkovsky House-Museum in Kaluga - long, medium shots (summer).

Newsreel of the early 20th century: L.N. Tolstoy.

A group of poor pre-revolutionary workers. A.M. Gorky in his office at work.

Photo: workers drinking wine at a government wine shop.

Newsreel of the late 19th – early 20th centuries: Slums in Paris.

Life of the poor in the slums.

A queue of the unemployed for lunch.

Deputies of the French Parliament inspect the poor neighborhoods of Paris.

Accidents with workers at capitalist enterprises: an accident at a factory, a fire in a mine.

The funeral of a poor man in Paris.

Workers of Paris angrily protest against lack of rights.

Leader of the labor movement in France Marcel Cachin on the street of Paris.

Demonstration of workers in Paris - long shot.

Panorama of a Parisian quarter - medium shot.

French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory working on radioactive bodies.

Camille Flammarion observes celestial bodies with a telescope.

Street of Paris in the evening.

The top of the Eiffel Tower - medium shot.

A man tries to jump from the Eiffel Tower on the wings of his invention.

View of Paris through the construction of the Eiffel Tower.

A man jumps and crashes.

A man jumps from a small height on wings of a different design (falls).

A man tries to rise into the air on a bicycle with wings.

A glider rises into the air and falls, having reached an insignificant height.

Brazilian Alberto Sanitos Dumont makes a circle in Paris in 1901 on his motorized balloon.

The Wright brothers (USA) in 1903, the first to install an internal combustion engine in a glider, demonstrate the flight qualities of their invention.

In France, Louis Bleriot makes a flight across the English Channel, 32 km long.

The British welcome Louis Bleriot for his successful flight.

Newsreel from the 1930s: V.P. Chkalov, Belyakov and Baidukov before their flight across the North Pole to the USA. Aircraft designer A.N. Tupolev sees the pilots off on their flight.

Americans enthusiastically welcome Soviet pilots V.P. Chkalov, Belyakov and Baidukov, who made a flight from the USSR to the USA across the pole.

Americans welcome Soviet pilots M. Gromov and his comrades.

Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov is the first to perform a loop in an airplane – the Nesterov loop.

Pilot Pyotr Nesterov – medium shot.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: Georgy Sedov sets off into the Arctic on the ship "Saint Foka".

The ship "Saint Foka" at the pier - medium shot. G. Sedov's ship in the Arctic ice; the expedition moves from the ship to dog sleds.

Wooden cross at the site of G. Sedov's death in the Arctic (winter).

The coat of arms of the double-headed eagle on the facade of a Moscow building - close-up.

Horse-drawn tram on a Moscow street.

Dirty outskirts of the city, an organ grinder with a parrot, Osetrov Market (Verbny Bazaar).

Long line at the pawnshop, Bolotny Market near the Kremlin.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: Celebration of the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty.

A sentry of the tsarist army stands in the Kremlin – medium shot (winter).

A peasant ploughs the land with a plow.

English coins are scattered across the table.

Close-up of coins with the image of the English king.

India celebrates the accession to the throne of a new king.

Indian peasants thresh rice with sticks.

Porters carry coal in baskets on their heads for the English colonizers.

A camel caravan in the sandy desert of Africa.

The colonizers baptize the natives into their faith.

The overseer of the colonizers beats an Egyptian slave.

The Americans land troops in a Mexican port.

The Americans leave Mexican soil.

Close-up of General Pershang.

A young man climbs a coconut palm tree, men process coconuts.

Military operations of the German imperialists using combat aircraft, warships and submarines.

The first aircraft carrier at sea.

The first days of the Great October Socialist Revolution, V.I. Lenin.

Revolution in Germany.

Moscow in the first days after the victory of the October Revolution.

Workers' detachments are formed to fight the interventionists.

Destroyed railway transport, left to the Soviet state by the tsarist regime.

Heavy industry enterprises in the first years of Soviet power.

Newsreel from 1957: Takeoff of a space rocket - medium shot.

Poor peasant houses.

Windmill in the village.

Workers are restoring the national economy.

The first Soviet airplane at the airfield - general panorama, close-up.

A group of airplane builders, with a poster "Our greetings to the drivers of the firstborn of the USSR from its builders TsAGI" at the airfield; among them is A.S. Chaplygin.

The city of Gorky on the Volga - general shot.

The first Soviet radio laboratory in Gorky.

Engineer (academician) Bonch-Bruevich, who created the first electron tube.

Electron tubes.

Radio mast - medium shot.

Radio loudspeakers on street poles.

Electric clock (in the background – Peter and Paul Fortress) - close-up.

Workshop of the Russian Diesel plant.

Academician Karpinsky in the workshop of the plant.

President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, A.P. Karpinsky, speaks to workers of the Russian Diesel plant.

The building of the school of Soviet biochemists founded by A.N. Bakh. A.N. Bakh at work - close-up.

The facade of the State Physicotechnical X-ray Institute - close-up.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Academician Ioffe at work in the laboratory.

The greatest physicist of the 20th century Albert Einstein in his office.

The building of the Institute of Experimental Genetics of Higher Nervous Activity in Koltushi - medium shot, panorama, long shot.

Newsreel from the 1930s: I.P. Pavlov goes to work in the laboratory.

An experimental monkey in a cage - medium shot. I.P. Pavlov at the institute talks with Herbert Wells during his second visit to the Soviet Union.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater, trams moving on Theater Square.

Adult Soviet citizens learn to read and write at school.

A woman writes on the board "Every cook must learn to govern the state." The first Soviet miner-innovator Nikita Izotov answers a lesson at the blackboard.

Old men at a lesson.

Evenks, Nanais, adults and children studying at school.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: A street of a pre-revolutionary Central Asian city, women in chadors.

The building of Tashkent University, created in the early years of Soviet power.

Russian scientists at the university.

A memorial plaque with the text of the decree on the establishment of the University in Tashkent, signed by V.I. Lenin and Bonch-Bruevich.

Rabindranath Tagore visiting Tashkent University.

Noisy traffic and pedestrians on the streets of Berlin.

Berlin at night.

Rich shop windows.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Horse-drawn carriages and cars in Paris.

Parisians riding horses in the Bois de Boulogne.

The general strike in England in May 1926. Panorama of the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Skyscrapers, bridges, mines, factories built by the hands of American workers.

Workers at the conveyor belts at a factory.

The unemployed on the streets of American cities.

The poet V. Mayakovsky speaks.

The "hunger march" of the American unemployed.

Policemen at the home of the unemployed.

Eviction of an unemployed man from his apartment.

An unemployed man in despair throws himself from the 40th floor of a skyscraper.

Mountains of grain and hungry children in America.

Women demand bread and milk for their children.

Merchants pour milk on the pavement.

Newsreel of the 1920s and 1930s: Industrial enterprises deliberately destroyed by their owners during the years of crisis.

A farmer ploughs the land with horse-drawn ploughs.

A combine harvester is pulled by horses instead of a tractor (depression years).

American and other foreign ships in a Soviet port.

Foreign tractors purchased by the Soviet Union are unloaded from a steamship.

A train with tractors is approaching – wide shot.

Tractor driver Pasha Angelina is driving – close-up.

Tractors arrive in a village.

Writer M. Sholokhov at work – medium and close-up. N.S. Khrushchev, A.I. Mikoyan, G.K. Ordzhonikidze, and A.A. Andreyev are in the presidium of a government conference. I.V. Stalin speaks in the meeting hall of the Supreme Soviet. K.E. Tsiolkovsky – close-up and medium shots.

Model: rocket takeoff.

Academician S.I. Vavilov at work in the laboratory and in the office. P.A. Cherenkov, I.E. Tamm, I.M. Frank, awarded the Nobel Prize, in the laboratory. P.A. Kapitsa conducts an experiment with liquid air.

A glass with liquid air - close-up.

Testing the first Soviet cyclotron at the Leningrad Electrosila plant.

A scientist working with nuclear physics instruments. I.V. Kurchatov - close-up. A.I. Leipunsky - medium shot. D.V. Skobeltsin among other scientists. A.I. Leipunsky, I.V. Kurchatov, D.V. Skobeltsin at the instruments.

Scientists Flerov and Petrazhan in the laboratory.

Launch of a stratospheric balloon - general, medium, close-up.

Excavations of Pompeii - general shot (shot from above).

Dizzying car races with accidents in America.

The death of a German airship over New York.

The new US President Franklin Roosevelt, who recognized the Soviet Union, solemnly enters the White House.

Blackshirts march through the streets of the Italian city, Mussolini greets them.

Hitler greets the fascist detachments.

Scientist Albert Einstein, who left Germany during the fascist regime.

Italian scientist Enrico Fermi in the laboratory.

The author of "The Blue Bird" Maeterlinck - close-up.

Thomas Mann - close-up.

Henri Barbusse arrives in Moscow, speaks in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Romain Rolland at A.M. Gorky's.

Signing of the Munich Agreement.

Chamberlain makes a statement to the British, returning from Munich.

Newsreel 1939-1945: Buildings collapse, the population suffers.

German fascists in Paris.

French scientist Joliot-Curie, equipment in his laboratory.

Scientist Longevin in his laboratory.

German fascists seize Soviet lands.

Bombing of Leningrad by fascist aviation.

Leningrad under siege at night.

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

Dmitry Shostakovich working on the Seventh Symphony "Leningrad. 1941".

Sculptures destroyed by the fascists, buildings of the Pulkovo Observatory, the Tchaikovsky House Museum in Klin, churches.

Killed women and a child.

Katyushas firing.

Soviet soldiers of various branches of the armed forces go on the offensive against the fascists.

Panorama: Moscow Kremlin – general shot (shot from under the bridge).

Building of the USSR Academy of Sciences – zoom in.

Sign: "USSR Academy of Sciences" – close-up.

Soviet scientists, participants of the Great Patriotic War, are guests at the celebration of the 220th anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The Joliot-Curie spouses at the celebration at the Academy.

Czech Zdenek Nejedly, Englishman Hinshelwood and others at the celebration.

Hinshelwood and N.N. Semenov on a walk and in the laboratory.

Explosion of an American atomic bomb.

Americans observe the test of nuclear bombs.

Men search for pearls underwater.

A shark swims.

Soviet astronomer Severny studies chromospheric flares on the sun.

Astrophysicist V.I. Ambartsumyan in his office at work.

Astrophysicist Markaryan in his office.

Photograph of the process of formation of a young star.

Soviet scientists in Antarctica.

Moscow – general shot (shot from above, summer).

Moscow State University building on Lenin Hills - general plan.

Nuclear power plant building in Dubna.

Nuclear reactor.

Patient being treated with a cobalt cannon.

Ceremonial launch of the nuclear icebreaker Lenin.

USSR Academy of Sciences building - medium plan.

Academician I.V. Kurchatov among scientists - medium plan.

Ogra and Alpha nuclear installations - general and medium plans.

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna - general plan (shot from above), medium plan.

Scientists meeting at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

Academician D.I. Blokhintsev speaking.

Scientists from different countries working together with Soviet scientists at the meeting.

Synchrocyclotron - general and medium plans.

The synchrocyclotron's descendant is the first Soviet cyclotron, built in the 1930s at the Leningrad Electrosila plant.

Panorama: synchrophasotron at the nuclear institute - general plan.

The head of the nuclear center in Harwell, the Englishman Cockfort, visiting academician Veksler at the nuclear institute.

Assembly of an atomic reactor in China.

An atomic reactor and cyclotron in China.

Professor Wang Tan-Chan supervises work at a nuclear power plant in China. N.S. Khrushchev is solemnly welcomed by the Chinese during his visit to China.

International Exhibition in Brussels in 1958 (shot from an airplane).

Soviet pavilion in Brussels Exhibits in the Soviet pavilion.

Film footage characterizing the achievements of the Soviet Union in the field of industry, mechanization of agriculture, and science.

Moscow - general plan (shot from an airplane).