Lithuanian Chronicle (1920-1929)

Footage №67403, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:00 B/W

Reel №1

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Lithuania.

Panevezys, 1928. Close-up of the station name - Panevezys.

Decorated station building, flags.

On the platform, railway employees, military personnel are preparing to meet the president.

An arch decorated with flowers, people are standing.

A train passes behind them.

Waiting at the Lithuania station.

A locomotive decorated with branches and flags passes.

A railway employee with an order, sailors.

An orchestra goes, followed by a detachment of soldiers, a column marches.

Cars with ministers A. Žilinskas, K. Paltarokas drive up.

The ministers greet the officers.

The statesmen are met by the priest Lithuania.

Parade.

Ministers with ladies, the president and the public sit on chairs, watching the parade ceremony.

A soldier with the Lithuania banner.

A church service is underway, the priest addresses the public.

A panorama of faces.

Soldiers stand in columns.

The consecration of the regimental banner takes place.

The priest blesses the officers.

The president takes the banner, hands it to the soldier, kisses him.

The soldier takes the oath.

The military salutes the banner.

Three soldiers with the banner pass by the formation.

The president and officers greet the people and soldiers.

The scouts salute Lithuania.

The president speaks in front of the microphone.

The crowd, the formation of soldiers.

The general speaks.

A young man reads the text.

Soldiers pass, the banner in front.

Columns of soldiers, carrying machine guns.

A detachment of scouts, girls, children, dressed in different uniforms Lithuania.

The city, groups of people walking along the street.

Girls in national clothes.

A pavilion, in front of it figures of animals and birds made of plants - an elephant, an ostrich.

The building of the radio station with the inscription on the pediment "Ruta"

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Reel №2

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Lithuania.

Near the pavilion, various scenes from different historical periods of the country are played out, a dance of girls.

A ceremony in front of a platform on which ancient priests in white robes stand. "Old men and women" with sticks are walking, kneeling.

Warriors in ancient costumes.

A knight is performing.

Dance of girls Lithuania.

Sports competitions, relay race, running, javelin throwing, line jumping, high jump, pole vault.

Girls perform mass exercises, march, and perform again.

Spectators are sitting on the benches.

Athletes are walking.

Young men perform mass exercises, march Lithuania.

Airplanes in the sky.

A group of scouts in the forest, posing for the camera.

A hill with the inscription "Vilnius".

American captain R. Jurgela arrived to visit the scouts.

Scouts with R. Jurgela, his wife and son.

Tents scouts.

Scouts gathering in the forest, the orchestra rehearses, sitting on the ground.

Scout groups.

Scouts greet the president.

He passes with an officer, makes a speech Lithuania.

Platform, residents walk, students.

Cars drive by Lithuania.

Monuments behind the fence, propellers are attached to them.

Wreaths.

Cemetery, crosses Lithuania.

Arrow monument, a cross is carved at the bottom.

Inscription with dates Klaipeda 1923, Daugava 1919 and others.

Monuments.

Graves of soldiers in neat rows.

Individual monuments.

Poland of the cemetery.

Russian cemetery

Keywords

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