"lit by a mysterious blue light" newsreels and historical clips

... American invaders in Cuba, Fidel Castro led battles.

Osvaldo Dorticos of fighters.

Acetylene lamp - CU.

Cuban young people - volunteers, teachers and blue (acetylene) lamps are sent to the peasant population.

Young girls are taught brigadistki illiterate in their homes.

Older farmers are learning to ...

... Jimenez, Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro in an airplane during a business trip to the country.

Landscapes of Cuba from the plane - LS.

Brigadisty with blue lights on the back roads and trails in the village to go to the peasants, the peasants engaged in literacy.

Farmers ages steadily write letters on paper ...

... of the first to take a stab at the Bay of Pigs and the defeat of the invaders.

Brigadisty go with blue lights - the army of the Enlightenment.

Brigadistka farmer teaches literacy.

Blue light is lit - CU.

The first New Year's "Blue Light", 1962.

Probably, the program "Blue Light" became the first holiday for Soviet TV viewers.

Touching, in some places naive, but kind and sincere transfer with immediately remembered all the screensaver - the iron spiral Shukhov Tower - collected from the screens the whole ...

... from TVs.

Suffice it to recall the atmosphere in the studio itself, imitating just such family gatherings.

In the studio, the first creators of the "Blue Light" tell how it all began, reveal the technical secrets of filming and recall funny stories with participation leading and guests of the program: director ...

... assistant director Anel Merkulov, actor and singer Oleg Anofriev, announcer of CT Igor Kirillov.

The program includes excerpts of the first issues of the Blue Light.

... «Citizen" - on display shopping center by "LIT".

TV Advertising.

Interview vendors, consultants and managers of the firm.

Shoppers at the counter.

Refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, microwave ovens on display.

Advertising Foreign Trade Association "LIT".

Sports: Greece, Athens - Acropolis lit a torch.

Sverdlovsk, evening, city streets.

City lights on the streets are turned on.

The evening illumination lights up on the buildings - the luminous sign of the Sverdlovsk Hotel is in the frame.

Big - the evening news is on TV.

The workshop of the plant.

Evening lighting on the streets of the city.

The curtain ...

... curtain opens in the theater - a view of the auditorium from the stage.

Floodlights are lit in the theater.

On stage, the artists are dancing a polonaise.

There is a modern performance on stage.

Variety show - dancing dancer.

Disco - young people dance.

Towers, power lines.

Power plant.

The power grid Control ...

... company - Shchipanov K. S. The luminous dome of the circus, a panorama of the arena - clowns perform.

Evening, city stadium - the lighting turns on, a large scoreboard is lit.

Hockey match - CSKA Sverdlovsk and Yenisei Krasnoyarsk are playing.

Various exhibits of the Energy Museum - a panorama of ancient ...

... cable sparkles.

View of new buildings - lights go out in all windows.

The lights go out on the streets of the city.

The TV turns off.

Large - the damaged cable sparkles.

The workshop of the plant - the work of the machines stops.

Disco - equipment turns off, lights, music stops.

Large - the damaged cable ...

... cable sparkles.

The actors on the stage are standing in the semi-darkness.

The stadium lights are turned off.

Large - wall clock, shows the time 19:50. Large - dispatch console.

Dispatcher Zvorygin makes an entry in the log, looks at the diagram.

Large - diagram of power lines.

Dispatchers work at the console ...

... the evening city are without lighting - cars are driving.

Hockey players at the stadium are skating in the dark.

Large - an emergency car drove up.

Says Zvorygin.

Repair crew at the damaged cable.

Zvorygin is on the phone.

The streets of the evening city are without lighting - cars are driving.

The actors ...

... the information, thanks the repairmen.

The stadium lights turn on - the hockey match is resumed.

City lighting has been restored on the streets.

The TV turns on.

Lighting turns on in the factory shop, machines and equipment start working.

The lights turn on in the theater, the actors continue to play ...

... landscape, view of birch forest.

Woman in a headscarf stands, holding a hand over the trunk of a birch, the woman's face.

Trunks of birch trees against the blue sky.

Panorama Khvalynean hills.

One-storey house and the fire tower on the outskirts of Khvalynsk.

View of snow-covered streets.

A woman sits at a burning ...