Interrepublican newsreel (1940)

In the first place.

Tractor drivers of the brigade led by Mansurov are sitting at the table and drinking tea from a samovar.

Table setting, dishes on the table.

Mansurov, sitting at the table, reads to his comrades the draft socialist agreement on agricultural work in 1939. Printed text of the draft agreement.

Members of Mansurov's brigade plowing a field.

Plows loosen the soil.

Mansurov helps one of his comrades fix a malfunction in the tractor engine.

Mansurov's face.

Wiping engine components with a rag.

Adjusting the engine.

The tractor starts moving, plowing continues.

Plowing the land with tractor plows.

Young patriots.

Faces of residents of one of the villages of the Mari ASSR, seeing off conscripts to the Red Army.

People play accordions and folk musical instruments.

A column of conscripts with banners in their hands approaches the village council.

People dance near the village council.

Conscripts board horse-drawn carriages, say goodbye to their families.

Women wave white handkerchiefs goodbye.

A column of horse-drawn carriages sets off for Pavlovsk, to the military registration and enlistment office.

Horse-drawn carriages pass over a bridge.

View of a rally to mark the arrival of conscripts.

Military Commissar Zaitsev greets future Red Army soldiers.

Zaitsev’s face.

Conscripts’ faces.

Zaitsev and the conscripts applaud after his speech.

Angora rabbit nursery.

Cages with rabbits on the territory of the Chistopol breeding state farm.

A livestock specialist walks along a row of cages.

Angora rabbits in a cage.

Distribution of feed by rabbits, face of a farm worker.

Rabbits in a cage.

Weighing rabbits on scales.

Transporting rabbits in special wheelbarrows.

Putting rabbits in a box-cage.

Loading cages with rabbits for shipment to one of the collective farms.

At a poultry farm in the fall.

Ducks and geese in a pond.

Ducks and geese in the pens of the Kanash poultry processing plant, drinkers in front of the pens.

The clerk enters data into the log before sending the birds for processing.

Transferring the birds to the pens.

Mechanical removal of feathers from goose carcasses at the meat processing plant.

Manual plucking of carcasses.

Cutting up the birds.

Weighing the bird carcasses.

Packing the carcasses into boxes for sending to the retail network.