First flight to the stars (1961)

A rocket plane flies high above the ground, leaving a smoke trail behind it.

White clouds in the blue sky - cf.

Rainbow over a yellow field - general.

Close-ups of people from different countries: white and black, believers, scientists, children of different nationalities.

Crimean observatory - general. (with h/t).

Scientists at telescopes.

Ruins of Babylon - general.

Ancient Egyptian pyramids.

Pyramid, sphinx - general., h/t.

Drawings about people's dream of flying into space.

Newsreel of the civil war in Russia 1918-1921. Stills from the feature film "Aelita" about the rocket flight to the Moon.

Stills from the film "Space Flight" about man's flight to the Moon.

Streets of Moscow on the day of meeting the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - general. (with h/t). "Il-18" escorted by jet fighters in the air - general.

Ceremonial welcome of Yu. A. Gagarin at Vnukovo airfield - general. cf.

Yu. A. Gagarin reports to N. S. Khrushchev on the successful completion of the flight into space on the Vostok-1 spacecraft (synchronously). N. S. Khrushchev, L. I. Brezhnev, A. N. Kosygin, F. R. Kozlov, K. E. Voroshilov, E. A. Furtseva, N. T. Ignatov, O. V. Kuusinen and others.

The leaders of the party and government, relatives, and Muscovites greet and congratulate Gagarin. N. S. Khrushchev and Yu. A. Gagarin drive in a ceremonial motorcade along the streets of Moscow in cars; Muscovites warmly greet the cosmonaut along the entire route from Vnukovo to Red Square.

Helicopters drop leaflets with Gagarin's portrait. N.S. Khrushchev and Gagarin on the Mausoleum tribune.

Rally on Red Square in honor of the first manned space flight – general, medium (from different angles). N.S. Khrushchev speaking from the Mausoleum tribune (synchronously) – general, medium.

Listeners at the rally – general.

Dutch director Joris Ivens listening – general. A.I. Mikoyan, L.I. Brezhnev, F.R. Kozlov, N.S. Khrushchev, Yu.A. Gagarin, K.E. Voroshilov on the Mausoleum tribune.

Those present at the rally listening and applauding – general.

Panorama.

The Neva embankment near the Winter Palace in Leningrad.

Sculpture of a double-headed eagle with a crown – general, general.

Peter and Paul Fortress – general, medium.

The cell in the Peter and Paul Fortress where Kibalchich was imprisoned.

Drawing of a rocket made by Kibalchich before his execution.

Portrait of Kibalchich – cf.

Dove on the windowsill of a cell in the fortress – cf.

Tower of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

House of K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga – pan, general, cf.

Tsiolkovsky's workshop, located on the terrace.

Newsreel of 1927. Tsiolkovsky in his workshop working on a model of an airship.

Monument to Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga – general, cf.

Panorama of the streets of Kaluga – general.

Inscription on the monument – cf. N.S. Khrushchev continues his speech on Red Square (synchronously).

Newsreel of the 1917-1920s. V.I. Lenin on Red Square.

A four-winged airplane flies over Red Square.

An airship flies over Red Square – general.

An airship is flying – general.

People are looking at an airship – Wed, kr. V.I. Lenin is looking at a flying airship.

An aerostat is rising – Poland, kr.

An airplane is flying over one of the regions of the Arctic.

The airplane on which V. Chkalov made a flight to America is in the air.

Newsreel from 1936. Americans meet Valery Chkalov, Belyakov, Baidukov.

Meeting of Chkalov, Belyakov and Baidukov, who made a non-stop flight from the USSR to the USA, in Moscow.

Joyful demonstrators walk along Red Square, enthusiastic people greet the cosmonaut. N.S. Khrushchev and Yu.A. Gagarin greet the demonstrators.

Enthusiastic demonstrators – kr.

Yu.A. Gagarin talks about himself (synchronously) Spring landscapes of Russian nature – Wed Places of battles with the Nazi invaders in the Smolensk region, overgrown with grass – cf.

Monument to the heroes who died in the battles for the liberation of Gzhatsk in 1941-1942. Landscapes of the environs of Gzhatsk.

Spring.

The house of Yuri Gagarin's parents in Gzhatsk.

Yuri Gagarin's mother near her house.

Children play during recess near the school in Gzhatsk.

Pupils of the Gzhatsk vocational school, where Yuri Gagarin studied, read a newspaper with a photo of Gagarin.

Street in the city of Saratov – general.

Panorama with v/t.

Panorama of the building of the Saratov Industrial Technical School, where Yuri Gagarin studied.

Students near the technical school.

Cadets of the flying club, where Yuri Gagarin studied, walk across the field of the Saratov airfield.

Cadets make their first flight in a training plane, do a "barrel roll".

Volga (shot from an airplane).

Spring - general.

Flight school students march along the street in Orenburg.

Instructor Anatoly Kolosov works with students of the higher flight school.

Sign "Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School of Air Force Pilots" - short.

Board with a list of those who graduated from the school in 1957, among whom is Yu. A. Gagarin.

Portrait of Yu. A. Gagarin on the board of the school's excellent students.

Yu. A. Gagarin continues to talk about himself (synchronously).

Models of the first artificial Earth satellites in the VDNKh pavilion.

A design bureau working on problems of space exploration.

The even machine is working.

Control panel of the calculating machine.

Hand on the panel - kr.

Synchrophasotron - gen., Wed.

Scientists work at the control panel of the synchrophasotron.

Cartoon: proton beams fly inside a magnetic chamber, a rocket flies to the Moon, the USSR pennant on the Moon, an automatic interplanetary station in flight, the invisible side of the Moon is photographed.

Selection of astronauts using various devices.

Checking the astronaut's condition during rocking (swing).

Astronauts with sensors on their bodies in a vibration chair, doctors monitor the sensor readings.

Checking the astronaut in a pressure chamber.

The recorders show the work of the heart in the pressure chamber.

The astronaut loses consciousness in the chamber.

The doctor provides assistance to the astronaut in the pressure chamber.

A group of astronauts selected for further training.

Yuri Gagarin and other cosmonauts train in various sports: track and field, swimming, diving, parachute jumping on the field and in the water.

Gagarin makes parachute jumps from a tower and from an airplane.

Yu. A. Gagarin studying in the reading room.

Deprivation chamber.

Instruments in the chamber.

The instruments show the condition of the cosmonaut in the deprivation chamber.

Cosmonaut G. R. Titov leaves the deprivation chamber after many days in it.

The cosmonaut trains under overload conditions in a centrifuge.

Cosmonaut training in zero gravity in a special plane.

Cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin undergoing verification tests.

A friendly meeting of the cosmonauts at the home of Air Marshal K. A. Vershinin.

Newsreel from 1960: Scientists are preparing a spacecraft with equipment to test the reliability of protection against cosmic radiation, and are preparing representatives of earthly life: bacteria, insects, grains, plants, mice, and the dogs Belka and Strelka in special suits with sensors.

The exterior of the spacecraft.

The elevator rises to the top of the rocket.

The rocket takes off.

Employees release dogs from a container that landed after a space flight.

Press conference regarding the flight of a rocket with animals into space.

Belka and Strelka are shown at the press conference.

Photojournalists at the press conference.

Yuri Gagarin at home with his family on the eve of the flight into space.

Yuri Gagarin trains on a centrifuge.

American newsreel: Launch of a space rocket with monkeys on board - general, medium, short.

Trained monkey Ham.

Unsuccessful flight of an American space rocket, the capsule with a monkey falls into the ocean.

Examination of the monkey after the flight.

Press conference of American cosmonauts.

A group of Soviet cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin, walks along the airfield.

Yuri Gagarin gives a speech before the state commission (synchronously).

The inscription on the spacecraft "USSR. Vostok" - short.

External view of the Vostok spacecraft - general (during preparation for launch).

General view of the cosmonaut's cabin, chair, control stick, pilot's console, globe, automatic television camera, container with the cosmonaut's food.

Tubes of food.

Yu. A. Gagarin sleeps before the launch.

Various areas of the globe, filmed from above, from an airplane.

Camel caravan in the desert - general (with v/t).

Bird colony - general.

Ice of Greenland - general.

Cartoon: starry sky, moving planets, asteroids.

Checking the health of Yu. A. Gagarin before the flight into space.

The cosmonaut is dressed in a special suit for the flight.

The cosmonaut and those accompanying him go to the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Yu. A. Gagarin says goodbye to those seeing him off at the cosmodrome.

The elevator with the cosmonaut rises to the top of the rocket.

The cosmonaut takes his place in the cabin, checks the communications and reports that he is ready for the flight.

A panorama of the Spasskaya Tower over Red Square.

The Kremlin chimes show the time: 9:07 a.m.

A television tower on a television screen – kr.

A space rocket taking off – general.

Clouds – kr.

Radars – wed.

A television center – general.

Cartoon: The globe, an orbit around the earth being drawn.

The announcer Levitan at the microphone.

Loudspeakers on a Moscow street.

People listening to the radio on the street – kr, wed.

An elderly woman wiping away tears of joy – kr.

A sailor on the Anichkov Bridge in Leningrad listening to the radio – kr.

Television remote control: on television screens - Gagarin in flight – general.

Television center, conducting two-way communication with the cosmonaut (synchronously).

Cartoon: night over the western hemisphere.

Cartoon: a spaceship flies around the globe – general.

Helicopter in the steppe – general.

Helicopter over the steppe – general.

Flood in the forest – general.

Poland Volga – general. (from an airplane).

On the Kremlin clock: 10:55 a.m. – Wed.

Cartoon: a spaceship flies around the globe.

People with welcoming banners in honor of the 1st cosmonaut walk along the streets of Moscow.

Jubilant young people on the streets of the city, on Red Square – general, ed.

After the flight, Yu.A. Gagarin talks with a doctor and a sports commissioner.

Talks on the phone with N.S. Khrushchev (synchronously).

Soviet people joyfully greet cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin on the way to the plane.

Yu. A. Gagarin on the plane on the way to the rest area.

International telephone operators transmit messages about the space flight to different countries.

The exterior of the editorial office of "L'Humanite" in Paris.

Parisians look at the portrait of Yu. A. Gagarin.

The jubilant faces of Arabs, Africans, etc.

Yu. A. Gagarin surrounded by his fellow cosmonauts: G. Titov, A. Nikolaev, etc.

After the rest, Yu. A. Gagarin leaves for Moscow by plane. "IL-18", escorted by jet fighters, in the air - general.

Fanfarists play - cf. N. S. Khrushchev, Yu. A. Gagarin with his wife and parents, etc. go to a government reception in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Reception in honor of the world's first cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin in the St.

George Hall.

Foreign guests congratulate Gagarin. L. I. Brezhnev presents Yu. A. Gagarin with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. N. S. Khrushchev delivers a speech at the reception (synchronously).

People in the squares of Moscow on the evening of April 14, 1961. Fireworks over Red Square.

Fireworks over the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.

A space rocket takes off – general, average.