"semi-darkness" newsreels and historical clips

The watchman wanders through the labyrinths of the Peter and Paul Fortress in the semi-darkness.

Goes up the stairs.

Various utility rooms, corners of the fortress.

Antique bells on the floor.

The watchman rings the bells suspended from the pipe.

Removes one bell, goes up the stairs with it.

... machines stops.

Disco - equipment turns off, lights, music stops.

Large - the damaged 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 ...

... Zvorygin is on the phone.

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

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

A repair team is working - employees are repairing the cable, welding the damaged area.

Large - dispatch console.

A large wall clock shows the ...

Iridescence of colored laser beams.

On the set, the lights come on, and the shooting begins.

Laser beam.

Laboratory equipment in the semi-darkness.

A cameraman with a camera.

Portrait of A. K. Tolstoy.

Stills of the film "Hyperboloid of engineer Garin".

Laboratory equipment.

Animation: changing ...

People on the set.

The light goes out.

Laser beams in darkness.

Directional beam.

Alternation: metal welding laser specialists monitor the equipment.

Laser Pattern cutting perform curvilinear cutting metal.

Set.

Laser beams in darkness.

Man adjusts the intensity of the laser radiation.

Laboratory equipment ...

... say goodbye to the audience, go backstage, the curtain closes, then everyone returns back to the arena.

Close-up - the face of the Costume in the semi-darkness.

Kostyuk is backstage, talking to a colleague.

Says Kostyuk.

Large - The costume is made up, paints the eyes.

Kostyuk is in the dressing room at ...

... Stripping of semi-finished products and diamond serving as a cutter.

Faceted round diamond (cartoon scheme).

Round diamond.

Refraction of light in a diamond (animation).

Cutting and polishing of semi-finished diamond products on cast-iron discs.

The direction of crystallographic flat grids in a semi-finished ...

... semi-finished product (animation).

Fixing the semi-finished product before cutting.

Cutting of the site (the largest face of the round semi-finished product).

Night, darkness, nothing is visible; behind the scenes is the launch cyclogram.

Rocket launch, very long-range plan.

... harvesting.

Vegetable storage.

Processing of vegetable products.

Workshop for the production of meat semi-finished products.

Production of sausage products.

Confectionery shop.

Shop.

Exhibition and sale of semi-finished products and culinary products.

The kitchen of the dining room.

... Workshop of a machine-building plant.

Assembly of the turbine rotor.

Universal metal cutting machine.

Processing of a part on a semi-automatic machine (animation).

The work of the semi-automatic machine.

Drilling deep holes.

Advanced drill bit.

Operation of the device for vibration drilling (animation).

A ...

... government vehicles, enter the Spassky Gate.

Stalin out of the car.

Stalin in his office smoking a pipe.

Barbed wire at the border.

Flares in the predawn darkness.

Crawling along the border troops.