American farmer in the USSR (1974)

Leningrad, St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Sculpture of a lion.

Statue in the park.

Fallen leaves on the asphalt.

Sculpture at the foot of the Rostral Column.

Bridges over the Neva.

View of the canal.

Gates at the entrance to the Summer Garden.

A boat is going along the canal.

People are crossing the canal on a pedestrian bridge.

A bus is driving off the bridge.

People on the streets of the city.

View of the port.

The liner "Alexander Pushkin" arriving at the port.

Passengers on the deck.

Tugboat alongside the liner.

Meeting of American businessman D. McBurren with representatives of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations.

View of the bridges over the Neva. D. McBurren on a city tour.

Palace Square.

Alexander Column.

General Staff Building, Arch of Glory.

Cruiser "Aurora". D. McBurren with his companions on the deck of the cruiser.

Meeting with the captain of the cruiser-museum crew.

The barrel of the cruiser's bow gun, view of the river from the deck. D. McBurren says goodbye to the sentry.

The RSFSR flag on the roof of the building.

People chatting while looking at Palace Square.

St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Monument to Peter the Great. D. McBurren with a movie camera.

Monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Granite descent to the Neva near the stock exchange building, a pleasure boat is sailing along the river. D. McBurren with a camera.

Corner of the Winter Palace and part of the Palace Embankment.

An American businessman on an excursion to the Hermitage.

Museum exhibits.

Peterhof, fragments of the cascade of fountains in front of the Grand Palace.

American guests filming the fountains on camera.

People near the joke fountain.

Excursion group on the park alleys.

Visiting the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.

Alternation: flowers on gravestones, people walking along the memorial alleys.

Bas-reliefs on the memorial wall.

The delegation ascends to the Eternal Flame.

The Motherland statue.

Children run and ride bicycles along the park paths.

A child is led by the hand.

People are fishing on the embankment.

A young couple is sitting on the steps, water is splashing at the foot of the stairs.

Seagulls over the embankment.

People on the streets of the city.

View of the avenue from above.

Meeting of D. McBurren with employees of the Economic Institute. D. McBurren at a business meeting in Lesintorg. D. McBurren inspects export timber.

Loading timber onto a ship.

View of the port.

Views of Moscow. D. McBurren on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

St.

Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, State Historical Museum.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

Queue to the Lenin Mausoleum.

Entrance to the mausoleum.

People leaving the mausoleum.

View of the CMEA building from the embankment.

Parking lot under the overpass.

House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries (mansion of Arseny Morozov, now the Reception House of the Government of the Russian Federation).

Chairperson of the Presidium of the CCDS N.V. Popova meets the delegation.

Ceremonial tea party.

Panoramas of Moscow. D. McBurren crosses the bridge.

Main building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Streets of the capital, city residents, traffic. D. McBurren on a walk.

Views of the park.

A child runs past the fountain.

People in the lobby.

Spectators in the stands.

Fragments of the circus program. D. McBurren with his son on the stands.

Blooming lawn in the middle of the road. D. McBurren visits the Lesdrevmash exhibition.

Business meeting in Lesintorg.

Visit to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Photographs. D. McBurren talks about his farm.

Haystacks in the fields.

Cows returning from the pasture.

Sow with piglets.

Cows in the stalls. D. McBurren visiting a breeding farm in the Moscow region.

Cows grazing in the meadow.

Natural landscapes. D. McBurren visits the Center of the Russian Orthodox Church in Zagorsk.

Procession of clergy.

Temples in the Moscow region.

Ancient churches in the museum of wooden architecture.

A girl with a bouquet of wild flowers.

Blooming grasses.

A girl's face.

A tea house. D. McBurren with her son leaving the house.

Examples of modern wooden architecture.

Laughing girl.

Wooden house "Fairy Tale".

Evening Moscow.

Building of the Bolshoi Theater. D. McBurren enters the hall.

Chandeliers in the hall.

Fragment of P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballet "Sleeping Beauty", soloist E. S. Maksimova.

Black Sea coast, views along the highway, D. McBurren in the bus by the window.

View of the railroad from a hill.

View of the seashore.

Natural landscapes along the road (shot from a car).

Forest thickets. D. McBurren inspects a tea plantation, talks to specialists.

Collective farmers harvesting tea.

Lemon trees.

People at the entrance to the building.

Sign in Georgian at the entrance.

Delegation at a meeting with schoolchildren.

Meeting with a centenarian, veteran, participant in the Great Patriotic War.

People climbing the stairs.

Photographs.

A veteran receives guests in his home.

Panorama of the settlement. D. McBurren in the vineyard.

Grape clusters on the branches.

People are picking grapes. D. McBurren walking along the rows.

Bunches of grapes. D. McBurren with a bunch in his hand.

Grape juice is poured from a decanter into a glass.

Guests at dinner.

Residents of Tbilisi, views of the city. D. McBurren on a walk. D. McBurren visits the studio of the artist I. Ochauri.

The art of Georgian chasing.

Streets of Tbilisi.

Cable car.

View of the city from a hill.

Airplane wing.

View of the ground from the window. D. McBurren in the plane.

Streets of Tashkent.

Meeting with D. McBurren at the city council.

Chairman of the republican branch of the Union of Socialist Workers of Uzbekistan, Doctor of Historical Sciences H. Shukhunova.

Ceremonial tea party, exchange of symbolic gifts.

Streets of Tashkent, D. McBurren strolling around the city.

An American guest at the Tashkent bazaar.

Rural landscape (view from the car).

Cotton harvesting. D. McBurren visiting cotton fields. D. McBurren with a movie camera.

Guests examining historical and cultural monuments of Samarkand.

Airplane in the clouds.

A flight attendant walks along the cabin. D. McBurren in the plane.

View of the ground from the window.

Water boiling. D. McBurren visiting the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station.

Dam of the hydroelectric power station.

View of the river. D. McBurren on the embankment, people are sitting on a bench by the water.

Streets of Irkutsk.

Monument to Ermak.

Panorama of Lake Baikal. D. McBurren sitting on a rock.

View of the lake from a moving boat. D. McBurren goes down the footbridge to the lake and tests the water.

Family in a motorboat.

Trees bend over the water.

Man fishing.

Child carries firewood to the fire. D. McBurren by the fire.

Fisherman guts fish.

Child plucks leaves from bushes.

Boats on the shore. D. McBurren inspects a wooden structure near the lake. D. McBurren in the car.

Natural landscapes along the road (shot from the car).

Car on a forest road. D. McBurren at Siberian logging sites.

Loggers saw trees.

Removal of felled trees from the forest.

Preparing timber for rafting.

Lifting trunks out of the water on a conveyor. D. McBurren inspects building materials.

Man at the helm of a boat.

View of the water.

The boat crew.

The boat is sailing along the river.

Natural river landscapes (shot from the water).

Alternation: views from the window of a moving train, D. McBurren dictates a recording onto a tape recorder.

Ships in the bay.

People see off the departing liner. D. McBurren on board.

Natural landscapes of Siberia.