Interrepublican newsreel (1940)

In the first place.

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

Table setting, dishes on the table.

Mansurov, sitting at the table, reads out to his comrades the draft socialist agreement on agricultural work for 1939.

Printed text of the draft agreement.

Plowing the field by members of Mansurov's brigade.

Plows loosen the ground.

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

Mansurov's face.

Wiping engine components with a rag.

Engine adjustment.

The tractor starts moving, the plowing continues.

Plowing the land with tractor plows.

Young patriots.

The faces of residents of one of the villages of the Mari ASSR, escorting conscripts to the Red Army.

People play harmonicas and folk musical instruments.

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

People dance at the village council.

Conscripts get into horse-drawn carriages, say goodbye to their relatives.

Women wave goodbye with white handkerchiefs.

A column of horse-drawn carriages is sent to Pavlovsk, to the military enlistment office.

Horse-drawn carriages pass through the bridge.

View of the rally on the occasion of the arrival of conscripts.

Military Commissar Zaitsev welcomes the future fighters of the Red Army.

Zaitsev's face.

Faces of conscripts.

Zaitsev and conscripts applaud at the end of the speech.

A breeding ground for Angora rabbits.

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

A zoo technician walks along a row of cages.

Angora rabbits in a cage.

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

Rabbits in a cage.

Weighing rabbits on the scales.

Transportation of rabbits in special wheelbarrows.

Planting rabbits in a box-cage.

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

In the autumn at the poultry plant.

Ducks and geese in the pond.

Ducks and geese in the fences of the Kanash poultry processing plant, drinking bowls in front of the fences.

The accountant enters the data in the log before sending the bird for processing.

Transplanting a bird into a fence.

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

Manual plucking of carcasses.

Butchering a bird.

Weighing of bird carcasses.

Packing carcasses in boxes to be sent to the retail network.