Movie 1000 days of the republic. (1978)
Reel 1
0:09:36
Reel 2
0:09:301000 days of the republic (1978)
Annotation:
About the third anniversary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, about the difficulties of recovery after many years of war. History of the Lao Republic, the struggle against American aggressors for independence.
Annotation:
Construction of residential buildings, workshops for the production of agricultural implements "Lao Industry": metal smelting, blacksmithing. Children's art school, construction of the Friendship Bridge across the Nene River. Chronicle: US aggression, the country's struggle for independence, the first days of restoring the destroyed economy.
Reel №1
Landscape of Laos.
An elephant walks.
Bonzes (Buddhist priests) look out of the windows of a Buddhist temple.
Bonzes walk through the city.
Schoolchildren go to school.
A city street, cars and cyclists pass by.
Cycle rickshaws pass by.
Bonzes go to a pagoda.
A destroyed pagoda.
Newsreel: Military operations in Laos.
American planes fly.
An American soldier studies a map; maps.
American soldiers descend the steps of an airplane.
Planes take off.
Bombs are dropped.
Explosions.
An American soldier aims his rifle and fires.
Villages are burning; peasants are fleeing.
Explosions.
Photos of the atrocities of the occupiers.
A destroyed wall in the province of Hua Phan.
A bomb.
Laotians trample clay with their feet.
Girls make bricks.
Drying bricks in the sun.
Girls carry bricks to builders.
Builders work.
Children watch.
Caves in which the Laotians lived and worked during the war; rooms in the caves; corridors.
Newsreel: Headquarters in a cave.
Kaysone Phomvihane and Souphanouvong at a headquarters meeting.
Panorama of the caves.
Party school opened near the caves for young communists, students are going to school.
Students of the party school during classes.
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Prime Minister of the Republic Kaysone Phomvihane talks about the future of Laos.
An old man hits a "gong bomb" with a stick.
Children sit on scraps of metal.
Reel №2
Smelting workshop.
Fragments of metal, children sitting on the fragments.
A craftsman smelts spoons; boys are watching; spoons are lying around.
Fragments of metal.
A blast furnace built according to the calculations of young Laotian metallurgists.
Workers and engineers at the blast furnace.
Metal is poured into a ladle; a worker pours metal into molds.
Plowshares are removed from the molds.
Young engineer Tavinh Ponyahanh gives an interview.
Blast furnace fire, panorama of the jungle from the blast furnace.
Rice field.
A girl is walking through the village.
Seedlings are growing in containers from under bombs; the girl is watering the seedlings.
Classes at an art school.
Children are drawing; children's drawings.
A teacher in the classroom. "Vietnamese" people are standing by the threshold.
Construction, with the help of the Soviet Union, of a bridge across the Nyon River.
Construction explosions.
Soviet and Laotian workers and engineers at the construction of the bridge.
Welders and drillers at work.
The head of construction is engineer Noi Indavong, a graduate of the Moscow Highway Institute.
Construction.
Newsreel from 1975: Restoring destroyed roads.
Noi Indavong and Suphanuvong are talking.
Construction.
Noi Indavong talks about the construction of the bridge.
A construction vehicle passes by.
Noi Indavong at the construction site.
Workers at work.
Children at the bridge.
Construction explosion.
Children at the river.