A film about documentary filmmakers. Newsreels from different years are used.




Summer, autumn.
People are walking along the streets.
The film is being shot by the Central Studio of Filming Galina Monglovskaya – short (autumn).
The film cameraman is filming at the stadium – cf.
Newsreel of 1941-1945: The film cameraman is filming during a battle – cf.
The wounded cameraman Orlyankin is placed on a stretcher, they hand him a movie camera – cf.
Camera operator Masha Sukhova is among the partisans – cf. (winter).
Camera operator I. Bgancev is filming on the street – short (summer).
Newsreel of the 1930s: The writer Nikolai Ostrovsky is lying in bed, dictating lines from his book to his wife, who is typing on a typewriter – short, cf.
People are walking along the street in the rain, a young man jumps over a puddle – general.
Newsreel of the 1920s-30s: Academician, three times Hero of Socialist Labor I.V. Kurchatov - kr.
Scientist I.V. Michurin – kr.
Scientist K.E. Tsiolkovsky at home working – cf.
Russian singer Fyodor Chaliapin thanks the audience after the concert – kr.
Composer Dmitry Shostakovich bows in the auditorium – general.
Film director Sergei Eisenstein speaks in front of a microphone – kr.
Actors K.S. Stanislavsky and M.N. Kedrov sit at a table – cf.
Newsreel from 1930: A girl in the honor guard at the coffin of the poet V.V. Mayakovsky – kr.
Poet N. Aseyev cries – kr.
Poet B. Pasternak watches – kr.
The coffin with Mayakovsky's body – cf.
The people say goodbye to Mayakovsky.
Funeral procession – general (autumn).
Newsreel from 1928: Meeting in Moscow of Pierre Degeyter, the author of "The Internationale" - general. P. Degeyter in a car - average.
Newsreel from 1917: A huge crowd of people under the conductor sing "The Internationale" - general.
The first speech of V.I. Lenin on May 1, filmed by cameraman Lemberg (only one frame) - average.
Newsreel from 1919: V.I. Lenin, N.K. Krupskaya and others on Red Square on the anniversary of Universal Education - average, average.
Red Army soldiers pass by - average.
Newsreel from the 1920s: Sailors and people work on the first subbotniks - average, average.
A dismantled cast-iron sculpture of the Russian emperor is pulled out of the building - average, average.
A locomotive approaches the platform - average.
The first tourists from Argentina get off the train car and walk along the platform – Wed, CR, GS. Two, then three ragged street children dance (indoors) – Wed, CR. Classes at one of the first music schools: a teacher plays the drum, a student plays the drum; a teacher plays the flute, a student plays the flute – Wed, CR. Educational program classes.
A woman answers at the blackboard.
It is written on the blackboard: "Every cook should learn to govern the state." Women write at the table.
A brass band, consisting of boys, performs – Wed, CR. A woman working on a grinding machine – CR, GS. Workers decorate the Hammer and Sickle sculpture with shiny stones – Wed, CR. A hammer and sickle mounted on a star – CR. The frame of the Rossiya Hotel (at the initial stage of construction – photographed against the backdrop of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower – GS).
Newsreel from 1945: Victory Parade on Red Square.
Troops carry fascist banners and throw them at the Lenin Mausoleum – general, cf.
Newsreel from the 1960s: During one of the parades, rockets roll across Red Square – general (with military equipment).
Rocket takeoff – general, cf.
Newsreel from the 1940s: Newlyweds at the registry office: they put on wedding rings, kiss – general, cf.
Tractors driving across a field – general.
A girl driving a tractor – general.
Old men in Budenovka hats – general.
Uzbeks going to build the Fergana Canal, digging the canal bed by hand – general, cf.
Men near a cow.
Prize-winning bull – general.
The tractor brand on the radiator is “Red Putinite” - cf.
A column of tractors driving down the street – general.
A cameraman is filming – kr.
Newsreel from the 1920s: The first story from the first Soviet newsreel, “Kinonedelya”: caption: “An evening in memory of Karl Marx.” People are walking past the building.
The organizers of the meeting are standing, headed by A.V. Lunacharsky and the collector of songs of the penal servitude, Hartveld – cf.
Newspapers and other literature are being unloaded from the carriage of the propaganda train – cf., general.
Leaflets are being scattered from the propaganda train – kr.
People are looking at the sky – cf., kr.
One of the first Soviet airplanes in the air – kr.
A female projectionist near the projection equipment – kr.
The first Soviet truck – kr.
A car with workers passes by – kr., kr. (evening).
Newsreel from the 1930s: People are boarding a trolleybus – kr.
Trolleybus poles on the wires – kr.
A trolleybus goes along the street – Wed (winter).
Gorky Street – Wed (from traffic).
People in the trolleybus – kr, Wed.
Boys clinging to the trolleybus go behind it: on skis and skates, they fall – general, Wed.
Radio antenna – general.
A girl with a cat in her arms listens to the radio through an earphone.
The family of steelworker Aleshkin gets into a car, which he received a bonus for good work.
Aleshkin is behind the wheel – kr.
Leningraders greet and meet the "Papaninites" – general, kr. I.D. Papanin and others drive by in an open car – Wed.
Newsreel from 1942: Two children are pulling a coffin on a sled along a Leningrad street.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Residents of Leningrad carry corpses of relatives who died of starvation on sleds through the streets.
Red Army soldier on duty – cf.
Barricades on the streets of Moscow – general.
Muscovites dig trenches – general.
Soldiers march past in white camouflage overalls.
Corpses of fascists under the snow near Moscow – kr.
Broken German equipment near Moscow – general, Poland.
Cameraman in a trench – cf.
Explosion – kr.
Cameraman runs by – cf.
Cameraman being handed a camera in the plane – kr.
Cameraman R. Karmen is filming – cf. (winter).
Cameraman V. Sushchinsky is filming.
His last film shoot (1944): battle footage – cf.
Cameraman films the street of defeated Berlin – cf.
Hitler's corpse (double) – Wed.
Cameraman filming.
Newsreel from the 1960s: Parents with a child walking down a city street – Wed, kr.
Man with a newspaper in his hands – Wed.
Man with a baby carriage – kr.
Airplane with an honorary escort in the air – general.
The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin gets out of the plane – general.
Muscovites greet the cosmonaut.
Yuri Gagarin on the tribune of the mausoleum – kr.
Newsreel from the 1940s: Blocking a river bed – a stone falls into the water – general.
Dnieper Hydroelectric Station builders try to block the water – various.
Posters on a locomotive and on board a platform: "For the restoration of heroic Stalingrad.
Workers of the Kuibyshev Region" – kr.
Girls at a house destroyed in Stalingrad, washing themselves – Wed, kr.
Girls exit the fuselage of a wrecked German plane, walk along the wing of the plane with a swastika – cf.
Volunteers march through the city – general, Poland, cf.
Steelworkers at work – cf., kr.
Dancing a waltz – cf.
Newsreel from the 1950s: The first volunteers are heading to the virgin lands.
Tractors and other equipment drive by – various.
Virgin land workers are warming themselves by the fire – cf.
Oil workers at the well.
A bucket of oil – cf.
Oil workers congratulate each other – general, cf.
Oil is pouring – cf. (summer).
Boats with fish at the pier – cf.
Fishermen unload fish – cf.
Women are watching – cf.
A dog, standing in the water, eats fish – cf. (summer).
Fire in an oil field: the gas is burning – general, kr.
Tractors are hauling an oil rig – general.
Water is pouring out of a tanker truck, men are washing themselves – general, cr.
A truck covered in snow – Wed.
A cameraman is filming.
An icebreaker has arrived in Antarctica, where Soviet scientists live.
An airplane in the snow (with military equipment).
A tractor falls through a hole in the ice – Wed.
People at the scene of the accident – general, Wed.
A monument to the deceased tractor driver Ivan Khmara – cr., Poland.
Antarctica.
Winterers fire rifle salutes in memory of their deceased comrade – general.
A young man and a girl meet and kiss on the street – cr., cr., general.
In a huge auditorium filled with high school students, a young man presents a project to insulate the earth by melting part of the ice in Antarctica (synchronously) – cr., general.
The audience applauds.
City street – Wed.
An autumn leaf is flying – kr.
Several schoolgirls are walking through the park with flowers in their hands – cf.
A girl is looking, holding autumn leaves in her hand – kr.
A cameraman is filming in a blizzard – cf.