Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
The film is dedicated to 40 years of UNESCO activities in the fields of education, culture, science and communications. Meetings of representatives of UNESCO member states. Speaking (synchronously) are members of the USSR commissions for UNESCO affairs G. V. Uranov, A. A. Krasikov, Yu. M. Khilchevsky and V. E. Sokolov. Restoration of the Borobudur temple on Java Island, the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, held with the assistance of UNESCO. Soviet teachers conduct classes with students of the Indian Institute of Technology.




Cartoon: photos from magazines, shot through a fade, the 23rd session of the UNESCO General Conference in Sofia.
Newsreel 1941-1945: German soldiers marching – short, general (shot from above).
German planes dropping bombs in the sky – general.
Bomb explosions on the ground – general, panorama.
Houses burning – medium, panorama.
The roof of a house is burning – short.
Burning house – medium.
Woman crying – short.
House is burning – short.
Woman with a child looking at a burning village – short.
Village is burning – general.
Ruins and a cross – short.
Ruins, panorama over the ruins, people returning to the city – general.
Drawing by R. Kent "Europe" - short.
Cartoon – text from the UNESCO Charter- medium.
Landscape – general, panorama.
Modern city – general.
Paris, new district – general.
The Champs-Elysees, traffic – general.
The flag of UNESCO – cr.
The building where UNESCO headquarters is located – general.
The members of UNESCO are sitting in the hall – general.
Representatives of different countries during the work of the session – cr., Poland.
Arab representatives to UNESCO, Poland from man to woman, Poland of other representatives at the session, including UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar – cr.
UNESCO Director-General Amadou Makhtar M'Bow, representative of Senegal and his deputy – cr., Wed.
Members of the commission during the work of the session – general.
Newsreel: The USSR Commission for UNESCO in session – general.
Members of the commission during the meeting – Wed, Poland.
Women, participants in the meeting – cr.
A member of the commission shows a diploma, which was awarded to the USSR Commission for UNESCO for its contribution to the development of world science and the holding of an international geological congress.
Stenographer – Wed.
A member of the Commission shows a medal – Wed.
Participants in the meeting – cr. G. V. Uranov - Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the USSR Commission for UNESCO Ivanov – kr.
Meeting of the Commission – general. G. V. Uranov speaking (synchronously) – Wed.
Members of the Commission – Wed, kr.
Tsarev – kr.
Meeting of the Commission – general.
Uranov speaking (synchronously) – kr.
Man, panorama from hands to man’s face – Wed.
Representatives of all UNESCO member states are meeting – general, panorama.
The city of Paris, Place de la Concorde – general.
A street in Paris, pedestrians moving, transport – Wed.
A street musician playing the guitar in front of a cafe, panorama of the cafe’s visitors – Wed.
A man at a table in a cafe, panorama from feet to face – kr.
A cafe, a guitarist playing – general.
The Citibank building, panorama upwards, general.
A woman from a poor settlement hanging out washing – general.
Men harnessed to a cart are pushing it along a small town street – cf.
A girl is sitting on the corner of a house – kr.
A young man is sleeping right on the pavement – cf.
People sitting on the street – cf., Poland.
The face of a young man – kr.
Peasants ploughing with buffaloes – cf.
A peasant throwing grain into the ground – kr.
Peasants harvesting rice – general.
Carrying sheaves and stacking them – kr.
A meeting of the UNESCO Commission – general, cf.
A representative of Japan – kr.
M'Bow is speaking from the rostrum – cf.
The participants in the meeting are listening – cf.
Cartoon – Text from the UNESCO Charter – cf.
Rodin's bronze sculpture "The Thinker" - kr.
The face of a young black man, Poland from the face to the hands of another card player – kr.
The faces of children looking out of the window – cf.
The legs of a shoemaker, Poland from the legs to the hands and the face of a shoemaker – cf.
Face of a young Indian - kr.
Wall, panorama from wall to young male students - cf.




Students going to class – Wed, kr.
Students, panorama from students to woman ringing bell – Wed.
Student – Wed.
Teacher – Wed.
Student – Wed.
Teacher explaining to students – Wed.
Russian teacher – Wed.
Russian teacher conducting practical lesson with young men – Wed.
Professor, panorama from professor to students during practical lessons at one of the courses at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay – Wed.
In the classroom – Wed.
Laser installation – Wed. (shot in motion).
Institute employee near laser installation – Wed.
Laser beam – Wed.
Institute employee conducting observations, panorama of the device – Wed.
Exterior of the Technological Institute – general.
Students of the Institute of Agriculture are having their classes right on the grass in the garden – general.
Class, panorama of the class, drawing lesson in progress – general.
Participants in the meeting applauding – general.
Newsreel from 1985: Mr.
M'Bow presents the Krupskaya Prize to a representative of Laos – cf.
The participants in the meeting applaud – general.
M'Bow presents the prize to representatives of another country – cf.
The participants in the meeting applaud – general.
Drilling rig, panorama from the rig to the worker – cf.
Drilling rig, panorama up the rig – cf.
An Indian ploughing with a tractor – cf.
An Indian tractor driver, panorama from the tractor driver to the plough – cf.
A mother with a baby – cf.
A doctor receiving a patient – cf.
Mothers with children at a clinic – cf.
Mothers with children walking from the clinic – general.
Cartoon – text from the UNESCO Charter – cf.
Cartoon – pencil drawing "Eternal Vigilance" by R. Kent – cf. (shot with a zoom out).
Cartoon work – Courier magazines dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Victory, excerpts from the magazines – dissolve, Wed.
A young man leafs through a book in a bookstore – kr.
Bookstore – general (removed from motion).
A TASS employee is working on a computer – kr.
The printing machine is working – kr.
Computer screen – Wed.
Text on the tape – kr.
Text on the computer screen – kr.
The hall where TASS employees are working, a panorama of the hall – general. A. A. Krasikov, TASS Director General, is speaking (synchronously) – kr.
The hall where TASS employees are working, a panorama of the hall – general.
TASS employees are working on computers – Wed, Poland.
Printing press – kr.
Worker – Poland, kr. A. A. Krasikov is speaking (synchronously) – kr.
A stack of newspapers, a panorama of the worker – kr.
A boy offers a newspaper to a car driver – cf.
A moment from a TV programme at a Nicaraguan studio – gen. (shot from the control room).
A moment from a TV programme on Vietnamese television – gen. (shot with a zoom out).
People at home watching TV – cf.
The control room of the Moscow television centre – cf.
Newsreel from 1984: A meeting of the UN members – cf.
Speech by US State Department representative Romberg – kr, kr. (shot with a zoom in).
Police beating up South African demonstrators – gen., kr.
Police beating blacks with sticks – kr.
UNESCO magazine "Courier" with the subtitle "Racism" - kr.
South Africans running away from the police – cf.
A policeman fires a pistol at demonstrators – cf.
A man's back, beaten with truncheons and shot with rubber bullets – kr.
A dispersing demonstration – gen. (shot from above).
Sound engineer at the console at the television center – kr.
Newsreel: Palestinian refugees – Poland, cf.
Refugees sitting right on the floor – Poland, cf.
A woman opening a tin can – kr.
Another woman cooking – cf.
A wrecked car among the ruins – kr.
Women running; one showing the crash site to the other – cf.
A wrecked car, traces of blood – Poland, kr.
Ruins – kr. (shot from driving past, zooming out).
A wrecked house, Poland on a bed, covered in rags – kr.
People, mostly women, gathered on Remembrance Day, those killed, Poland in the photo – kr.
A slab on the grave of the deceased, his photo and inscription – kr.
Women standing with candles on Remembrance Day – kr.
UNESCO building in Paris – general.
This is Yu. M. Khilchevsky, Permanent Representative of the USSR to UNESCO (synchronously) – short (filmed from a distance).




The cartoon is a quote from the UNESCO Charter.
Vuchetich's sculpture "Let Us Beat Swords into Ploughshares" - Poland, cf.
Festival participants at a rally - Poland, cf.
Girls - cf.
Festival delegates - cf.
A festival delegate is speaking at the podium - general.
Festival delegates - cf.
Faces - Poland, cf.
Festival participant - kr.
Mishin is speaking from the podium - general.
Festival participants at a rally - Poland, general.
Festival guest - kr.
Festival delegates are dancing - general, Poland.
Folklore ensemble - general, Poland.
Rattle - kr.
Festival guests are watching a whooping boar weaver at work - cf., Poland.
Women are making clay figurines - cf.
A woman in a national costume is weaving a carpet - cf.
Hands at work - kr.
Magazine covers in the shop window - cf., Poland.
Cover of a foreign magazine – kr.
Paris, people on the street – general, Poland.
Paris, driving through the city – wed, Poland.
Cars on the city streets – general, Poland.
Cartoon – text from the UNESCO Charter.
Drawing by R. Kent "I, Lord" - kr, Poland.
Fire at oil storage facilities- general, Poland.
Burning tanker at sea – general, Poland.
The surf carries oil ashore – wed.
Dead birds – wed.
Dying bird near the shore – wed.
Newsreel from 1968-1969: Academician V. Ye.
Sokolov, Chairman of the Soviet Committee for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program, speaking (synchronously) – wed.
Waste pouring out of a pipe – wed.
Polluted water, dead plants – wed, general.
Lizard, bee on a flower – wed.
Thistle – general.
Field – general (shot from a zoom out).
Ranger on horseback – general.
Tractor ploughing – general.
Weather station – general, panorama.
Landscape, types of meteorological instruments – medium (shot through the window).
A meteorological station employee working at a computer – medium, panorama.
Weather instrument – general (shot from a zoom in).
Landscape – general, panorama.
Suzdal, church on the shore of a lake – general.
Cartoon work – text from the UNESCO Charter – medium.
Photo from A. Rublev's icon "Trinity" - medium, panorama.
Newsreel 1973-1984: Sculpture of the Borobudur Temple on the island of Java in Indonesia – medium, panorama.
General view of the Borobudur Temple – general.
Restorers at work – medium. (shot with a zoom out), general.
A part of the monument is being moved by crane – critical.
Workers are placing the part – cf.
The head of the sculpture - critical, panorama on the computer.
The outline of the base of the head, drawn by the computer – critical.
Text, zoom out to the typewriter – cf.
An employee of the computing center turns on the device – critical.
The computer selects the corresponding heads of the sculptures – critical.
An employee places the head on the sculpture – cf.
Sculptures of the Borobudur Temple – critical, panorama.
An architectural monument, a tower – critical.
Domes of the mosque – critical, panorama from top to bottom.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris – critical (shot with a zoom out).
Architectural monuments of Suzdal – critical, general. (shot in the evening).
Pedestrians on the street of an Indian city – critical.
Traffic on the streets of the city at night – critical, panorama.
Morning landscape, river bank – critical.
Women in national dress collecting water – cf.
Woman with a basket on her head – kr.
Peasant, Poland from the peasant's face to his hands – kr.
Boy's face – kr.
Children – cf.
Landscape – general, Poland.