The Microbe of Communism (1925)

Radio signal exchange between Paris and Moscow (animation).

Views of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Views of the tower of the Moscow radio station, built according to the design of engineer Shukhov.

A correspondent receives and records news from France by telephone.

Panorama and views of Paris.

President of France E. Millerand goes to the elections in 1924. Millerand and his entourage leave the polling station.

Parisians get acquainted with the election results from newspapers and posters on street stands.

View of the Elysee Palace.

Arrival of the new Prime Minister of France E. Herriot at the Elysee Palace.

View of a spontaneous rally in Berlin after receiving news of the fall of the Poincaré cabinet in France.

The drawing of Tower Bridge in London.

London correspondent of "Izvestia TsIK" David at his desk.

The editor on duty of "Izvestia" in Moscow receives information from Leningrad by telephone.

Panorama of the central part of Leningrad (top).

Passers-by on the Anichkov Bridge.

The Leningrad correspondent of Izvestia transmits information by telephone.

The telephone operator in the editorial office takes down the text transmitted to them in shorthand.

Waves of the Gulf of Finland flood the shore during the flood of 1924. The Neva overflows its banks onto the embankment, a view of part of the embankment.

The typist in headphones receives information.

The Leningrad correspondent at the telephone.

One of the flooded streets of Leningrad.

Consequences of the flood in Leningrad.

A fragment of a newspaper sheet.

The staff of the Izvestia editorial office at work.

Construction of wooden apartment buildings.

View of a new wooden apartment building.

Members of the admissions committee walk to the next house.

Panorama of the building of the new Commune House.

The staff of the Izvestia editorial office enter the entrance of the building.

The staff of the editorial office at work.

Panorama and views of Vorobyovy Gory during workers' festivities, people dance in a circle.

Rowing competitions on the Moskva River.

Views of the Moscow River during the competition.

The editorial staff sorts through and processes the incoming material.

Typists at work.

The process of manual typesetting of texts in the printing house, typesetters at letter cash registers.

Typesetter at work.

The interior of the printing house's linotype shop, linotypes in operation.

A typesetter typesets text at the linotype keyboard.

The process of automatically casting typed lines on metal plates.

Automatic typesetting on linotypes.

The printing house workers tie the typed lines into galleys, views of the linotype shop.

Placing the galleys under the press.

Preliminary printing of texts.

Sheets with printed texts.

Proofreaders check the typesetting.

The editorial secretary checks the typesetting and hands it over to the night editor.

Proofreading the typesetting.

The process of laying out the next issue of the newspaper.

Printing a newspaper sheet.

Putting stamps with permissions for the issue to be published.

The process of making the matrix of the next issue of the newspaper.

Placing the matrix under the press.

Manufacturing metal castings from a matrix - stereotypes.

The process of manufacturing stereotypes.

Installing stereotypes on the shafts of rotary machines.

A printing house worker starts a rotary machine.

Lubricating stereotypes with paint during rotation.

View of a part of a rotary machine.

Installing a paper roll in a rotary machine.

The process of printing the next issue of a newspaper, the drums of a rotary machine are rotating.

Automatic counting of the newspaper circulation.

View of one of the units of a rotary machine.

The editor-in-chief of Izvestia, Yu. M. Steklov, dictates an article to a stenographer, Steklov's face.

Steklov stands up, walks along the table, and dictates.

The stenographer takes notes, Steklov answers the telephone.

The stenographer dictates the text of the article to the typist, a sheet of typewritten text.

Steklov is at his desk signing a retyped article that he brought.

A fragment of the text of the article, Steklov's face.

Checking the text.

The text of the article with Steklov's signature.

Steklov approves the next issue of the newspaper before sending it to typesetting.

Sending materials to typesetting using rope post.

The editorial secretary, A. V. Stoklitsky, is in his office discussing issues of covering the harvest problem with the editor-in-chief, reading a telephone message.

Steklov is at his desk.

Steklov is talking on the phone, the heads of departments enter the editor-in-chief's office.

Steklov signs the brought articles, resolves current issues.

Steklov holds a meeting with the staff of the Krasnaya Niva magazine.

Steklov during a meeting with representatives of the Main Office.

Steklov holds a meeting with the Izvestia editorial staff, speaks at the meeting, faces of the staff.

Steklov's meeting with the secretaries of the rural cells of the RCP(b).

Speeches by the meeting participants.

Panorama of Steklov's office during the meeting, faces of the cell secretaries.

London and Paris correspondent of Izvestia David greets Steklov after arriving from Georgia.

Steklov and the editorial staff meet the French communist Andre Marty.

Steklov's conversation with Marty.

Text of the article in Izvestia about Marty's stay in Moscow, with an illustration.

Meeting of the staff of the party department of Izvestia.

Entrance to the editorial offices of Izvestia and Krasnaya Niva.

Newspaper staff and correspondents in the editorial premises, delivery of letters and telegrams to the editorial office from the fields.

A female editorial staff member distributes incoming material among the departments.

One of the staff members selects interesting materials and information from newspapers published in the USSR. A postman passes by with a bag over his shoulder.

Checking the text of a telegram from Baku about the restoration of oil fields, the text of the telegram.

Panorama of one of the Baku oil fields, view of one of the derricks.

An editorial staff member checks the text of a telegram.

Text of a telegram from Bukhara about a protest demonstration against the raid of the German police on the Soviet trade mission.

Views and panorama of the protest demonstration in Bukhara.

One of the speakers speaks from the balcony.

Panorama and views of the rally (from above).

Processing telegrams in the Izvestia editorial office.

Text of a telegram from Ivanovo-Voznesensk about the launch of a textile factory.

Production processes at a textile factory.

Workers service the machines.

Head of the USSR Information Department D.I. Erde at work.

Opening and processing letters received by the editorial office.

Department employees unfold the letter in the form of a long scroll.

Correspondents from the field and visitors talk with the department employees.

The head of the labor and trade union department reads letters from the field.

The head of the department gives an employee his next assignment.

A mother with a newborn baby in her arms during the "Oktyabrins".

The participants of "Oktyabrins" make speeches.

The text of the mother's order.

The mother's face.

A photographer from "Izvestia" takes pictures of the speakers.

An employee of the editorial board Prigradov-Kudrin talks to the pioneers, reads the article they brought, pioneers around the campfire.

Texts of notes in "Izvestia".

The editorial staff talks to visitors.

Texts of articles devoted to theatrical art.

The employees of the culture department discuss the theater repertoire.

Text of the article "Criticism and bibliography".

The employees of the bibliographic department at work.

The employees of "Krasnaya Niva" discuss illustrations for the next issue.

The poet V.V. Kazin reads new poems at a meeting of a group of writers working for "Izvestia" and "Krasnaya Niva".

The participants of the meeting approve of Kazin's poems.

A subscriber at the main office of "Izvestia TsIK" stands in line to subscribe to the newspaper.

People wishing to place an advertisement in "Izvestia" stand in line.

Faces of those standing in line.

The agents collecting advertisements go to work.

The texts of the advertisements on the last page of "Izvestia".

The manager of the main office of "Izvestia" Kranz S.M. receives visitors, signs documents.

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Red Army infantry on parade.

View of a gun turret of a warship.

An airplane flies over Red Square.

Red Army soldiers at the banner during the ceremony of Izvestia editorial board accepting patronage over the Ultimatum squadron.

Faces of Red Army soldiers.

Steklov Yu.M. speaks to the squadron personnel.

Speech by one of the pilots.

Faces of the event participants.

Panorama of the presidium table of the ceremonial meeting, with Steklov, editorial staff, and squadron pilots at the table.

The face of one of the first Russian aviators, Rossinsky B.I., present at the meeting.

One of the pilots presents the Izvestia editorial board with a model airplane.

The model airplane on the presidium table.

Formation of personnel of the N-th brigade of the Red Army, over which the editorial board of "Izvestia" took patronage", at the assembly of the summer camp.

Head of the editorial department of the "Defense of the USSR" Kuzmin N.N. speaks to the Red Army soldiers.

Panorama of part of the training ground, where the brigade personnel are training in conditions of the use of chemical poisonous substances by the enemy.

Movement of soldiers across the field.

Gas supply from gas throwers.

Kuzmin speaks to the Red Army soldiers.

A stream of flamethrower over the training ground, clouds of smoke rise upward.

Panorama of the camp of one of the brigade units during Kuzmin's speech.

Kuzmin continues to speak, Red Army soldiers in gas masks dash across the contamination zone.

A whistle at one of the enterprises.

Views of an industrial enterprise being restored.

Restoration of a blast furnace.

Loading coke into the furnace.

Entrance to one of the mines.

View of part of an industrial enterprise.

Production processes in a rail rolling shop.

Texts of articles in "Izvestia".

Employee "Izvestia" talks with People's Commissar of Health of the USSR N.A. Semashko in his office.

Sea waves run up to the shore.

Crimean and Black Sea flora, a person resting in the surf.

Semashko gives an interview to an "Izvestia" correspondent, vacationers in one of the sanatoriums.

Conducting therapeutic mud procedures to one of the vacationers.

The faces of Semashko and the correspondent.

Panorama and views of one of the Black Sea resorts.

People bathe in the sea.

Texts of articles on monetary reform published in "Izvestia".

An "Izvestia" correspondent talks with People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR G.Ya.

Sokolnikov's face.

Bags of gold chervonets in a bank vault.

Counting gold coins.

Sokolnikov's face.

Views of the facade of the House of Unions building during the drawing of the 1st edition of the State winning 6% gold loan.

Panorama of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the drawing of the edition.

Sokolnikov talks to a reporter.

Sokolnikov enters the Column Hall and sits down at the presidium table.

Sokolnikov makes a speech before the drawing of the gold loan.

Sokolnikov's face.

Sokolnikov talks to a reporter.

Sealing the lottery drum in the Column Hall.

A guard with a rifle guards the seal on the drum.

The drum is spun, a girl takes out a ticket.

The number of the winning bond is announced.

Sokolnikov's face.

Tula plant worker Tyurikov, who won 50,000 rubles in gold, stands at the cash register window waiting to receive his winnings.

The cashier counts the money.

Cash is issued.

Tyurikov puts the money in his pockets and in the collector's bag.

Tyurikov's face.

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