Romania after World War II, development of industry, agriculture and culture of the country.
The film tells about the new life of the Romanian people during the period from the overthrow of the fascist yoke on August 23, 1944 to August 23, 1959. About the creation of their own industry during these 15 years, about the achievements in science, technology, art. About the new way of life, about new construction, in the celebration of the 15th anniversary in Bucharest.
Romania. Footage from the Second World War: Soviet troops fighting, the population of Romania greeting Soviet troops, Romanian partisans advancing (1944). Landscapes of mountains, rivers, valleys and forests. The Danube River. Ship traffic. Raftsmen push rafts along a mountain river. Architectural monuments, including the Sighisoara Castle. Oil fields and refineries. Loading and unloading operations at the seaport of Constanta. Production processes at industrial enterprises, including the metallurgical plant in the city of Hunedoara. Romanian and Soviet specialists working. Workers attending amateur art groups in cultural centers. Production processes in agriculture. A meeting of leading agricultural workers. G. Gheorghiu Dej speaking. Geological expedition. Institute of Atomic Physics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. State Nature Reserve in the Danube Delta. The Bistrita River. Blocking the river and building a canal. G. Gheorghiu Dej visiting an industrial enterprise in Craiova. The city of Bucharest. N. S. Khrushchev meeting with G. Gheorghiu Dej. Views of the city. Traffic and pedestrians. Session of the National Assembly. Theatre. Picture gallery. Village museum (rural life). Market. Park. Track and field competitions at the stadium. Filming of a feature film in the studio pavilions (synchronously). Performance of singers and dancers in the Central Television studio (synchronously). International Music Festival named after G. Enescu. Performers: I. Menuhin (USA) and D. Oistrakh (USSR). Military parade and demonstration in Bucharest.
B/W footage of the events of August 23, 1944 – newspaper texts reporting the overthrow of the fascist yoke.
Soviet tanks with troops drive through the streets of Bucharest, the population welcomes the Soviet soldiers - liberators.
Spring. (color footage).
Landscapes of Romania.
Blooming orchards.
C - branches of a blooming apple tree.
C - a bee on apple tree flowers.
Mountains, rocks.
A car is driving along a highway in a gorge.
A car is driving along a forest road.
Panorama - a mountain landscape.
A steamboat is going along the Danube.
Timber rafters are leading rafts along the river.
A destroyed rafts are being led along the river.
A destroyed fortress.
Sizmoary Castle.
Mining settlement.
Panorama - a new mine.
Panorama - Among the hills there is a monument in honor of the overthrow of the Turkish yoke.
Details - an eagle on the monument (heraldry).
C - the upper part of the monument.
Cr., general, masts of the thermal power plant.
Factory chimneys are smoking.
General – a train with tractors passes.
PNR – a forest of metal oil rigs in Oltenia, the center of the oil industry.
PNR – an oil refinery in Moldova.
Tank trucks with oil pass by.
PNR – an oil rig being transported by car along the highway.
Oil rigs are installed by the hour in three minutes.
Shots from a Romanian film chronicle: a worker is pulled out of a well in a roller, a barrel of oil is lifted out of a well.
Oil is poured from a barrel into a trench.
A new oil rig is operating in India, Romanian craftsmen are helping Indian oil workers.
The oil rig has a mark of a Romanian plant.
An automatic machine lifts and installs the oil rig.
PNR – the port of Constanta.
Cars are loaded from the pier onto a ship.
PNR – Hunedoara – the center of the metallurgical industry.
Blast furnaces.
Molten metal pours.
Student interns take notes at the furnace.
Steelmaker Aurel Stanciu at the control panel.
Peasants walk along the road to the plant.
PPR – workers pour the charge into the furnace.
Workers at the open-hearth furnace.
Party meeting at the plant, voting, accepting Aurel Stanciu into the Communist Party.
Rolling mill shop, installation of a 1000 mm blooming mill.
Rolling mill shop.
Blooming mill assembly nearing completion.
Turbine stamp: “USSR. Kirov Electrosila Plant”.
Blooming mill launch.
Soviet and Romanian engineers are assembling the blooming mill.
This is Alexander Bogatyrev from the Novokramatorsk Plant and Bucharest foreman Petrik Petru.
A smithy of hot metal on a blooming mill conveyor.
Evening plan of the city of Hunedoara.
Panorama of the Kaksahamicheskoye Combine in Hunedoara, created in collaboration with Soviet and Romanian specialists.
Workers at the furnace.
Panorama of coke being unloaded from the furnace.
Panorama of a train with miners passing by.
Wed. of coal cars passing by.
A train with coal passing by (shot from above).
Workers from the plant walking.
A meeting of delegates in the grove.
A delegate is speaking (synchronously). new houses.
Kindergarten.
Pioneers doing exercises.
Holiday home in the greenery.
Vacationers on the veranda.
Beach.
Swimming in the sea.
Community center in Reshchitsy.
Rehearsal of amateur performance participants – an orchestra, rehearsing Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony”.
Close-up shot of conductor, orchestra musicians.
Also in the club – a class for preparing young people for correspondence and evening institutes.
One person is writing formulas at the blackboard.
Painting class – panorama.
Artists’ workshop.
Dancing.
Peasant dances in the meadow (synchronously).
Seven-year school – students are sitting at their desks.
Hospital building – a doctor is examining a patient.
Physiotherapy room, patients are undergoing procedures.
A mobile cinema drives by. panorama – fields of waving wheat.
A cap-hat on ears of wheat means the grain is ripe and can be harvested. (Folk omen).
An agronomist and a peasant from the Chaku collective farm in Baragan are standing in the field.
Harvesting wheat in a field with a tractor-mounted binder.
Harvested fields of a collective farm, sheaves lie in stacks.
B/W legacy of the past: - an old mill, an old locomotive.
PNR - Manor house.
Color.
Ot/pl - a group of collective farmers is standing by the building of the collective farm administration.
PNR - collective farm outbuildings of the dairy farm.
Ot/pl - the building of the collective farm power station.
Ot/pl - the power station inside.
PNR - an irrigation canal stretches across the field.
Wed - water floods the fields.
Red - a bush of red pepper in the water.
PNR - the vineyards of the collective farm, collective farmers are picking mountain grapes.
Ot/pl - the street of the collective farm, the chairman of the collective farm, a former poor man Ion Florea and an agronomist are walking.
PNR - on the street of the collective farm there is a corn warehouse.
Cartoon map - with the designation of the number of collective farms in Romania.
PNR - the machine yard of the collective farm.
Ot/pl - a workshop of the plant with fertilizer.
PNR – a machine spreading fertilizer in a field.
PNR – a selection field of corn of the institute.
Cr – a student putting a cap on corn.
PNR – a field of corn.
Wed – a herd of cows passes by.
An electric milker is in the barn.
The milkmaid is pouring milk into a can.
Cr – milk is pouring.
Cr – bunches of grapes.
Cr – wine is pouring into a glass.
Cr – bottles of wine.
Ot/pl – a wine cellar, there are barrels of wine.
PNR – the building of the Belcescu Agronomic Institute.
Ot/pl – students are studying in the classroom.
Students in the hall near agricultural machinery.
PNR – from an airplane – expanses of fields and agricultural buildings.
Construction of a gas pipeline.
Young people are digging a trench.
A machine is unwinding pipes with mica paper.
The pipes are laid in the trench, the gas pipeline is ready.
Ot/pl – a forest.
Geologists are walking across a suspension bridge in the mountains.
Wed – Geologists with horses are crossing a river.
Poland – Geologists are walking through the forest.
Geologists are sitting by a rock.
Examining a stone.
At the Institute of Atomic Physics of the Academy of Sciences.
Wed – Mechanical hands at work.
Employees of the institute are approaching the reactor, Academician H. Holubey, director of the institute, member of the World Peace Council.
Cr – H. Holubey is speaking (synchronously).
The reactor is working.
Research in nuclear physics is being conducted in the laboratories of the institute.
Devices that make it possible to produce radioactive isotopes with the help of the reactor.
Wed – Devices for extracting isotopes.
The laboratory of the institute has set up a spectrograph for neutrons, it was put into operation with the help of the USSR. Prospecting for oil using radioactive logging.
Cr – Oil workers at a drill.
The isotope signal shows that there is oil.
Wed – Treatment using isotopes, a patient is lying with a device.
Wed – A doctor at a device.
Wed – the building of the Nuclear Research Institute in Dubno.
Wed – Romanian scientists work together with Soviet and Chinese scientists.
In Bucharest, at a session, Romanian, German, Czech and Polish specialists are sitting at a table discussing the study of reeds from the Danube Delta for the paper and cellulose industries.
Panorama, from an airplane – the Danube Delta.
Panorama – a huge number of birds – filmed from an airplane.
Wed, Panorama – pelicans in the delta.
Wed – pelicans taking off.
Flocks of birds in the air.
Various shots – fishermen in boats catching fish in the reeds.
Reeds.
Panorama – huge expanses of reed thickets.
Machines for harvesting reeds.
Reed harvesting by machine.
Barges with reeds are floating along the Danube.
Construction of a cellulose mill.
Boilers for boiling reeds.
Cardboard workshop.
Construction participants – specialists from Romania, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Autumn forest landscapes – various.
Moldova.
Landscapes.
Bicaza Gorge – filmed from a train.
Bistrita River.
Ceahlau Mountain.
Neamtu Fortress.
Rafts on the river.
Explosion in the mountains.
Construction of a hydroelectric power station on the Bistrita River.
Poland – the construction of Bicaza filmed from above.
Pipe-rolling plant in the city of Roman.
Pipe-rolling shop.
The finished products of the plant are pipes.
A chemical plant for artificial fiber is under construction in Sainesti.
Housing construction in Bicosa.
Construction of new houses in the city of Onasti.
B/W footage from 1944, destroyed cities, factories, plants during the war.
Gheorghiu-Dej with a group of people examines the ruins.
Workers work on Sundays to restore cities, bridges, and plants.
Color – Gheorghiu-Dej visits the Crainova plant.
In the plant workshop, Gheorghiu Dej talks to a worker and workers.
The city of Bucharest from an airplane.
Streets, squares of the city of Bucharest, flower beds, children on the boulevards.
New houses.
Construction of new houses on the outskirts of the city in the working-class neighborhoods.
The People's Republic of Poland – a new children's hospital.
A doctor listens to a girl.
Children lie on the sand under quartz lamps.
The building of the House of Culture "Dom Skintain".
The building of the National Assembly.
Deputies in the meeting hall.
Art gallery in the former royal palace.
Paintings by Rembrandt.
Peasants looking at paintings.
The Museum of the Romanian Village in the center of Bucharest.
Exhibits of folk art.
The stadium bowl park is filled with spectators.
Underwater ballet.
Various shots – night photography of the city of Bucharest, colorful shop windows shining.
Panorama – night garden of a restaurant.
Filming in a restaurant, actors, director and cameraman filming.
In a television studio.
Panorama – musical and choreographic montage “Culedra” performed by the Barbu-Lautaru Orchestra of the Railway Workers’ Dance Ensemble.
Sofia Popa sings (synchronously).
Applauding hall of Ocanaum.
George Georgescu, composer and violinist, conducts.
George Enescu’s “Romanian Rhapsody” is performed (synchronously).
The following performed at the international festival in concerts in honor of D. Enescu: John Barbiliolli conducts – England (synchronously), pianist Claudio Arrau – Chile (synchronously), Oistrakh (synchronously) performs a Bach concerto.
On August 23, 1959, a demonstration on the streets of Bucharest.
On the government tribune, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej greets the demonstrators.
Flowering branches.
Construction of the dam in Bicaz.
In the workshops of the pulp mill in Savinesti, the first hundreds of meters of fiber – relon.
Flower beds on the streets of Onesti.
The People's Republic of China – new houses in Ceacu.
The new rolling mill at 50 in Hunedoara.
The mouth of the Danube in the sea.
The sea.
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