Scientific and technological revolution and its problems. The film reveals the contradictions between new productive forces and nature, shows the possibilities and ways of solving planetary problems.
Light board.
Signal lamp is on.
Nurse in front of signal panel.
Screaming baby is placed on changing table, signal sensor in diapers.
Nurse swaddles baby.
Signal lamp is on.
Changing baby.
Medical examination, weighing of infant.
Typewriter records baby data: height, weight, pulse.
Doctor and nurse in gauze masks.
General view of Krivoy Rog Metallurgical Plant.
Computer center, engineer at monitor.
Panel with automated control scheme of blast furnace processes.
Molten steel is poured in hot shop of plant, metallurgists at work.
View of plant (from above).
Mother and child are lying in bed in maternity hospital.
Elderly woman crosses road.
Car brakes.
Woman crosses road with busy traffic, cars brake.
Chronicle of early 20th century: Pair of horses pull omnibus on rails.
Passengers board tram.
Split screen: a hand with a wooden abacus and work on an adding machine.
Calculator, fingers pressing the keys.
High-voltage power line mast.
Smoke from power plant chimneys, electricity production and transmission equipment.
Chemical industry plant.
Shoes made of synthetic materials.
Fashion show: jackets made of polymer fabrics.
Split screen: weaving looms of the past and modern ones.
Work on a computer, printing devices.
Technological equipment.
Bags of fertilizers.
Laser installation.
Finished cars roll off the assembly line at a plant.
TV. Chronicle of various events: popular uprisings in Portugal, volcanic eruption, work in production, archaeological finds.
The matrix of a new newspaper is transmitted over a distance, newspapers are printed.
A spacecraft above the earth.
The Soyuz-Apollo project: a meeting of American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts.
Short plans of various production processes.
Newspapers being printed.
A crowd of pedestrians on the street.
Changing shots: helicopter, radio receiver, wheat field, radiogram, tape recorder, moving cars, military maneuvers, airplanes taking off, rocket launch, explosions.
Newspapers are printed.
1900-1910
Krivoy Rog
Preschool children with a teacher in a clearing: they recite poetry and dance in a circle.
Newsreel from the early 20th century: The first steam locomotives, the master adjusting the mechanisms.
A steam locomotive carries a coupling of carriages along the rails, smoke from the chimney, spectators waving their hands and hats.
Shot in 1896: the Lumiere brothers' film "Arrival of a Train".
Newsreel from the early 20th century: Workers going to a factory.
Wheels of a steam locomotive.
Workers in a factory workshop.
Workers leaving the factory gates.
The building of a weaving factory.
Factory workshop, machines.
A man working on a mechanical loom.
Men at lathes.
View of the Earth from space.
Models of satellites.
Photo: lunar surface.
Photo of the planet Venus.
A space rocket taking off, smoke, fire.
A boy solving a problem at the blackboard.
Children at their desks in the classroom.
A teacher at the blackboard.
Children at their desks answer the teacher's question by holding up answer sheets.
Newsreel from 1935: Miner Alexey Stakhanov sets a world record for coal mining.
Automated coal mining complex, miner at the control panel.
Worker at the lathe.
CNC machine, engineer at the control panel.
Newsreel from the early 20th century: Clay is kneaded with feet.
Potter makes a clay pot.
Tu-144 airplane flies.
Excavator works in the quarry (view from above).
Polyscreen: worker, equipment, conveyor belt with earth.
Automated production of color picture tubes.
Polyscreen: conveyor using human labor and fully automated conveyor.
Polyscreen: face of a man in glasses and hand on the buttons of the control panel, types of industrial production.
Scientific and technological progress
1896 1900-1920 1935
In space
Summer
A transistor and a Neanderthal stone knife are laid out on a cloth.
A room with electronic equipment, scientists at their devices.
A diagram of an experiment on obtaining new physical particles.
A laser installation.
A multi-screen: people are walking.
Fragments of feature films.
A newsreel from the 1930s: Academician A. Ioffe with his students.
Academician S. Vavilov at work.
The control center for automated processes of a large enterprise.
A design bureau, designers at their drawing boards.
The assembly shop of a research and production association.
Various technologies for drilling stone.
The Svetlana plant, assembling integrated circuits using a laser, automatic devices in operation.
Automated production processes.
A quarry unit in operation.
A newsreel from the 1920s: A crash course: adult men and women at their desks.
A school teacher conducts a lesson using technical demonstration devices.
The children in the class are listening to the teacher.
The children answer the teacher’s question by pressing a button on a device at their desks.
The teacher's remote control lights up to show who has answered correctly.
The teacher talks to the student who gave the wrong answer.
The children are laughing.
Mining in a quarry, a new-design excavator is working.
A lake polluted by industrial waste.
Factory chimneys are smoking.
Dumping industrial waste into a river.
Newsreel: A motorboat is driving along a polluted river.
Factory chimneys are smoking.
Smog over London.
A chimney is smoking, smoke over the city.
Scientific and technological revolution, Ecology
Ioffe A.F. - Russian and Soviet physicist
science organizer
Academician. Vavilov S.I. -- Soviet physicist
academician
President of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1920-1930
Serpukhov Leningrad
Hungry, exhausted African children sit and lie on the ground.
Africans cultivate a field with hoes and other primitive tools.
Pedestrians on the streets of San Francisco, transport.
Transamerica Pyramid.
Driving across the bridge in San Francisco.
Streets of San Francisco.
Newsreel: USA. Shoppers in a grocery store.
Rally.
Cars on the road, a railway line.
Computer center, external devices, magnetic tape drives.
Graphs of the development of world industry, depletion of natural resources, the process of environmental pollution, population growth on the planet, growth of food products.
Swampy terrain.
Excavations.
Archaeologists at work.
Finds: mammoth tusk with a drawing of an ancient man, stone tools, spearheads.
Panorama from the river water to the bank, bones of extinct animals on the bank.
The bones are washed with a stream of water.
Mammoth bones are laid out in a row, scientists describe the finds.
River bank (from the movement).
View from above of the library reading room Tractors in the field.
Flying over the field, the harvest is in.
Sowing work on a tractor.
Fields and orchards of Moldova.
Automatic irrigation, spraying from a helicopter.
Apples on the branches.
Livestock farm, cows.
Automated feeding, milking.
Control panel, conveyor.
Commissioning of the buildings of the agricultural complex.
Ears of wheat, wheat field.
From above: harvesting with combines.
Thermal power plant, cooling towers.
Hall of the nuclear power plant.
Control panel, generators of the nuclear power plant.
Cooling towers.
agriculture
Africa Moldova
Industrial waste discharge into rivers.
Polluted water.
Treatment facilities of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill.
Laboratory employees take water samples.
The territory of the plant, the pipes are smoking (top).
Water bodies of the treatment system (top).
Lake Baikal, rocky shores.
Headlights of moving cars in the dark.
Timber rafting down the river.
Newsreel: Earthquake, houses are collapsing.
Explosion at Medeo to protect Almaty from a mountain mudflow.
View of a quarry, open-pit mining.
A truck is pouring soil out of the back, a bulldozer is leveling the black soil.
Field.
Wrangel Island.
A helicopter is landing.
Wooden cages with animals are unloaded from the helicopter.
A musk ox is released from its cage.
Musk oxen in a pen, running across a snowy field.
Landscape: Lake Baikal at sunset.
Stopped production, polluted water bodies.
Rallies of the unemployed.
School chemistry room.
Schoolchildren at their desks conducting experiments.
Ural New Pipe Plant, automatic rolling mill.
Control panel, plant employees at the control panel.
Production processes, hot pipes.
A worker in a psychological relief room, watching a relaxing color-music video on the screen.
Ecology
Baikal Pervouralsk
An engineer working at an electronic computer, a monitor, a printing device.
A photograph of Mars on the monitor.
A laboratory of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow.
The Tokamak T-10 thermonuclear experimental installation.
The institute's employees work with the installation.
The USSR Energy System Control Center, duty dispatchers at the control panel.
Montage plans: a doctor, a kindergarten teacher, a teacher, scientists.
A doctor performs an ultrasound on a pregnant woman.
An ultrasound machine monitor.
Scientific and technological progress
Moscow