Movie A daily feat. (1963)
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0:10:05
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0:10:06A daily feat (1963)
Annotation:
A biographical film essay about the talented Soviet poet and fabulist Demyan Bedny.
Historical reference:
Demyan Bedny (Pridvorov Efim Alekseevich) - born April 13, 1883, died May 25, 1945.
Annotation:
Portraits of the poet Demyan Bedny (Efim Alekseevich Pridvorov) at different periods of his life. Various biographical documents. Chronicle. Spring landscape. Parishioners at a church service. A poor peasant farm, a hut. A peasant plows. Newspapers "Zvezda", "Rabochiy i soldat", "Kievskoye slovo", "Pravda", "Utro", magazine "Prosveshchenie", books, leaflets and posters with poems and fables by D. Bedny. Newsreel. The city of Petrograd. Demonstrations in the streets (February 1917). The city of Tver. Detachments of the Red Guard pass by. N. I. Podvoisky, D. Bedny on the tribune. Cavalry passes by. V. I. Chapaev, D. Bedny are standing. The city of Moscow. Agricultural exhibition. D. Bedny among the peasants. D. Bedny in the courtyard of the Kremlin among the delegates of the 13th Party Congress. The House of the Red Army. A ceremonial meeting on the day of the 10th anniversary of the Red Army. D. Bedny and E. Yaroslavsky in the presidium. D. Bedny in a group of writers in the tunnel of the first metro line. The House of Unions. The First Congress of Writers of the USSR. A. M. Gorky, D. Bedny and others are taking place. Present in the meeting hall are: A. Fadeyev, Vs. Ivanov, A. Tolstoy, F. Gladkov, A. S. Novikov-Priboy, A. Korneichuk, S. Mikhalkov, L. Kassil, D. Bedny. D. Bedny speaking at a meeting of the congress of atheists. The house where D. Bedny lived. His room, desk, books. Printing machines working. A conveyor belt with D. Bedny’s books moving. Speech by N. S. Khrushchev at a meeting of the leaders of the party and government with literary and artistic figures (synchronously).
Reel №1
A panorama of willow branches from a calendar page dated April 16, 1911 - cr. (Easter day).
Landscapes of early spring in central Russia - general.
Church domes - cf.
Newsreel from early 1910-1915. Easter service in the church.
Newspapers "Government Herald", "Petersburg Leaflet", "Petersburg News", "Morning" with articles and reports from trading companies about the Easter holiday, about royal awards, about the fact that on the morning of April 16, 1911, the Moscow security police discovered a new group of the RSDLP. Pictures of Easter celebrations in Russia.
Newsreel from early 1910-1916. Peasant hut with a thatched roof.
Broken window in the hut.
Poor peasant yard, a plow in the yard.
A peasant plowing with a plow on horseback.
Poem in the Zvezda newspaper "About Demyan Bedny - a harmful man", signed by Pridvorov E. Photo: the house where Efim Alekseevich Pridvorov was born in the village of Gubovye, Kherson province; E. Pridvorov with his father.
Photo of pre-revolutionary Kyiv, where E. Pridvorov came to study as a young man.
Photo: military paramedic school where E. Pridvorov entered to study.
Photo: E. Pridvorov in his youth - NPL. The Kievskoye Slovo newspaper, where Pridvorov's poems were published.
Photo: St.
Petersburg, monument to Peter I - NPL. St.
Petersburg University, where E. Pridvorov entered to study.
Cartoon: E. Pridvorov's petition for a scholarship and his signature on his good intentions.
Portrait of E. Pridvorov - a university student - kr.
The collection "Russian Wealth" published by Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, which published poems by E. Pridvorov.
Newspaper articles and drawings about the "Lenin" execution in 1912. The first issue of "Pravda" from April 22, 1912. Poems by E. Pridvorov in "Pravda" (signed by Demyan Bedny).
Pages of the magazine "Prosveshchenie" with fables by Demyan Bedny.
The censor's inscription on the page of the magazine with D. Bedny's translation of Aesop's fables: "we know this Aesop".
Cartoon: satirical fables of Demyan Bedny.
Collection of fables by Demyan Bedny - departure.
A volume of works by V.I. Lenin is opened: Lenin's letter to A.M. Gorky about D. Bedny and his fables - 1913. Newsreel of 1914: Petersburg at the beginning of World War I. Newspapers with reports on the war.
Old Russian soldiers are walking along the road.
Kharkov newspaper "Utro" with poems by D. Bedny and his translations of Aesop, sent from the front.
Newsreel of 1917: Popular unrest on the streets of Petrograd in February, demonstration on the square.
Cartoon: photo of the provisional government and documents.
Cartoon: magazine "Rodina" - a publication of the bourgeois press - with a call to attack.
Cartoon: newspaper "Rabochiy i soldat" with poems by D. Bedny "Ordered, but the truth is not said" - cf.
Bourgeois newspaper "Birzhevye Vedomosti" with an article about the danger of D. Bedny's poems for Russian capitalists, an imprint in the newspaper - the Futurist Club.
Portrait of the young V. Mayakovsky - short.
Pictures about October 25, 1917.
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II Congress of Soviets - general, cf.
The newspaper "Pravda" with the story by D. Bedny "About the land, about freedom, about the workers' lot".
Epigraph to the story - cf.
Cartoon: lines from the story.
Lines from the story.
Photo by D. Bedny, 1917. The pages of the history of the CPSU are turned - cf.
Newsreel, 1918-1923: Detachments of the Red Army pass by.
Podvoisky and D. Bedny in Tver see the detachments off to the front. D. Bedny at the train. D. Bedny and the legendary division commander Vasily Chapayev at the train.
A soldier writes "To the front" on a carriage - cf.
Red Army soldiers and sailors leave for the front by train.
A poster signed with D. Bedny's verses "How my own mother saw me off"...
Detachments of Red Army soldiers pass by.
Photo by D. Bedny - cf.
Leaflets with poems by D. Bedny.
Works by D. Bedny published during the Civil War.
Photo: V. I. Lenin and D. Bedny - short.
Books presented by D. Bedny to V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya.
Appeal of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to D. Bedny, award certificate to D. Bedny from 1923. Photo: D. Bedny with the Order of the Red Banner.
Newsreel of the 1920s: Streets of Moscow - general, medium, Polish People's Republic.
The First Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow - general. D. Bedny among the guests of honor at the exhibition. D. Bedny - delegate to the 13th Party Congress.
Red Army House in Moscow.
Demyan Bedny and Emelyan Yaroslavsky in the presidium of the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Soviet Army.
Newsreel from the 1930s: D. Bedny, together with other writers, inspects a tunnel during the construction of the Moscow Metro.
The House of Unions during the First Congress of Soviet Writers - cf. A.M. Gorky, who arrived at the House of Unions for the congress. D. Bedny and others enter the hall.
Delegates to the Writers' Congress: A.M. Gorky, Alexander Fadeyev, Vsevolod Ivanov, Aleksey Tolstoy, Fyodor Gladkov, Novikov-Priboy, Aleksandr Korneichuk, Sergei Mikhalkov, L. Kassil, Demyan Bedny - at a meeting of the congress. D. Bedny makes a speech at a meeting of the Congress of Atheists.
Anti-religious books by D. Bedny.
Friendly caricatures of D. Bedny by the artist Deni.
Photos from the 1930s: D. Bedny in his library. D. Bedny's desk.
A panorama of the library collected by D. Bedny.
The house where D. Bedny lived - Wed (winter).
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Anti-war, anti-fascist posters from TASS Windows with poems by D. Bedny.
Fireworks over the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower on Victory Day. D. Bedny's poem in the Pravda newspaper in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany.
A report in the Pravda newspaper about D. Bedny's death on May 25, 1945. Printing machines working.
A conveyor belt with volumes of D. Bedny's works moving.
At a meeting of party and government leaders with literary and artistic figures on March 8, 1963. N.S. Khrushchev speaks about the significance of D. Bedny's work (synchronously).
Photo: portrait of D. Bedny - kr.