Blue lamp (1961)

Landscapes of the island of Cuba - from the movement.

Episodes of the struggle against the American interventionists in Cuba, Fidel Castro leads the battles.

Osvaldo Dorticos among the fighters.

Acetylene lamp - kr.

Cuban youth - volunteer teachers with blue (acetylene) lamps go to peasant villages.

Young girls-brigade leaders teach the illiterate in their homes.

Old peasants learn to write and read.

Fighters of the revolutionary army learn to read and write without letting go of their rifles.

The Russian book "Volokolamsk Highway" in the trench of a Cuban soldier.

An old Cuban woman, who saw her son off to battle, mourns over his portrait at a memorial service at the monument to Jose Marti in the square in Havana.

A priest gives a sermon in the square at the monument to Jose Marti.

Black and white women who lost their sons in the battles for the freedom of Cuba at a memorial service.

Cuban mothers send their young sons off to the villages to fight illiteracy.

Educational fighters – brigadiers (aged 12-14) – pass by.

A column of female brigadiers and brigadiers who came to the Conrado Benitez Brigade – the first volunteer teacher killed in the Eskanbay Mountains by a gang of counter-revolutionaries – passes by.

The brigadiers receive their combat uniforms and prepare their things for the journey.

Parents send the brigadiers off.

On the way, a little brigadier asks for directions to a peasant’s house and teaches the peasant and his wife.

Young team leaders in a peasant village learn agricultural work themselves, help the peasants with their farm work, and teach them to read and write.

A boy team leader learns to plow the land.

Peasants work in a rice field.

A rally in Havana dedicated to the second anniversary of the agrarian reform - general, Poland.

Antonio Nunez Jimenez and Fidel Castro are speaking.

Fidel Castro on an airplane during a business trip around the country.

Landscapes of Cuba from an airplane - general.

Team leaders with blue lamps go along country roads and paths to the villages to the peasants, teach the peasants to read and write.

Peasants of different ages diligently write letters on paper - medium, small.

May Day demonstration in Havana - general from the top.

Demonstrators carry a banner "Long live ours - the first in Latin America - socialist revolution." Fidel Castro and Osvaldo Dorticos are on the podium.

A banner with a portrait of N.S. Khrushchev is carried by demonstrators.

The 49th battalion passes by, one of the first to take the blow at Playa Giron and defeat the invaders.

Brigadiers with blue lamps are walking – an army of educators.

A female brigadier teaches a peasant to read and write.

A blue lamp is burning – red.