- Title: VM-290
- Summary: THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA (PT.1):
- Description:00:02:20 - CU BIG GUN TILTING INTO PLACE, SHOOTING. 00:02:25 - AIR FORCE FLEET OVER BUILDING. 00:02:27 - SOLDIERS ON SKIS. SKIING SOLDIERS 00:02:30 - RUSSIAN ARMY MARCHING IN REVIEW. 00:02:35 - BIG GUNS SHOOTING. 00:02:49 - CU GERMAN SOLDIER'S BOOTS MARCHING, GOOSE STEP 00:02:51 - CU CIVILIAN FEET WALK THROUGH SNOW 00:02:56 - WWII WINTER BATTLE FOOTAGE 00:03:02 - CU BOOK "HISTORY OF RUSSIA". HAND OPENING BOOK 00:03:12 - REENACTMENT OF 1242: GERMAN ORDER OF TEUTONIC KNIGHTS INVADE RUSSIA. CITY OF PSKOV IN FLAMES. ARMOR-CLAD MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS. GRANDMASTER TAKES OFF MEDIEVAL HELMET. PRISONERS WITH HANDS TIED. 00:03:43 - MEDIEVAL CAPITOL OF NOVGOROD. CU BELL RINGER. PEOPLE RUN. PRINCE ALEXANDER NEVSKY. 00:04:10 - RECREATION, APRIL 5, 1242: RUSSIAN & GERMAN FORCES MEET AT LAKE PEIPUS. DEFEAT TEUTONIC KNIGHTS ON ICE OF LAKE PEIPUS 00:05:09 - 1704 REENACTMENT: CHARLES XII OF SWEDEN LEADS ARMY INTO RUSSIA. HISTORIC BATTLE OF POLTAVA. DEFEATED EMPEROR PETER THE GREAT. ATTEMPT TO REACH MOSCOW MET WITH REPEATED DISASTERS; WITH SMALL ARMY, LAID SIEGE TO POLTAVA; COMPLETELY DEFEATED IN ENSUING BATTLE 00:05:49 - 1812 REENACTMENT OF NAPOLEON LED ARMY INVADING RUSSIA. RETREAT WITH TERRIBLE LOSSES 00:06:20 - 1917, KAISER WILHELM INSPECTS TROOPS ON THE EASTERN FRONT. FOOTAGE OF RUSSO-GERMAN WAR. CZAR NICHOLAS 00:06:45 - ANIMATED MAP EUROPE, CIRCA 1914. 00:06:54 - PAGES OF HISTORY TURNING, "700 YEARS OF BATTLE" SUPERIMPOSED 00:07:14 - ANIMATED WORLD GLOBE HIGHLIGHTING RUSSIA. ARROWS SHOW INVASION PATHS 00:07:43 - LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1943 00:07:50 - VLADIVOSTOK, CIRCA 1943 00:07:53 - ANIMATED MAP OFUNION SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 00:08:00 - USSR INDUSTRY: RAW MATERIALS, NATURAL RESOURCES, MINERALS. CU SCOOPING UP GOLD NUGGETS INTO TIN CUP, COPPER, TIN MINES, MINERS & MINE OPERATIONS 00:08:18 - HELICOPTER AERIAL OVER RUSSIAN FOREST 00:08:22 - CUT TREES FALLING IN THE FOREST. LUMBER INDUSTRY 00:08:28 - COAL GOING UP CONVEYOR. 00:08:31 - "CITY" OF OIL DERRICKS. OIL INDUSTRY. OIL POURING DERRICK REFLECTION. TRANSPORTING OIL BY TRAIN 00:08:47 - IRON STEEL MILL FACTORY. INDUSTRY. 00:08:56 - AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY: CU MACHINERY PLOWING THROUGH RICH FARMLAND. TRACTORS HARVESTING. RAIN ON CROPS. WORKERS HARVESTING PICKING COFFEE BEAN, CROPS 00:09:09 - CU COFFEE IN PERCOLATOR 00:09:10 - RUSSIAN WORKERS CARRY TOBACCO LEAVES 00:09:12 - CU HANDS ROLLING CIGARETTE 00:09:14 - CU COTTON PLANTS, BOLLS. WORKERS ON HUGE PILE OF COTTON. 00:09:19 - WORKERS IN SUGAR CANE FIELD 00:09:21 - MONTAGE CATTLE, SHEEP. CU HAND SEPARATING WOOL ON SHEEP. 00:09:27 - MONTAGE AGRICULTURAL CROPS, GRAIN FIELDS. CORN FIELDS, OATS, HOPS, WHEAT FIELDS. 00:09:50 - RUSSIA, 1940s: VARIOUS GROUPS MARCH IN HUGE RALLY, PARADE. FEMALE GROUPS IN TRADITIONAL FOLK COSTUME, UNIFORMS. MEN IN WHITE SHORTS & TANK TOPS MARCH. MEN IN BLACK SHORTS & NO TOPS MARCH. HS GROUPS WEAVING IN & OUT. PEOPLE DANCE ON FLOAT. 00:10:29 - CU ACCORDION. WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME DANCE PAST VIEWER ONE BY ONE 00:10:37 - HOUSE ALMOST COMPLETELY COVERED IN SNOW 00:10:41 - CLUSTER OF WHITE BIRCH TREES 00:10:42 - ZOOM IN ANIMATED MAP OF DON RIVER VALLEY AREA, 00:10:44 - COSSACK TENDING HIS HORSES. OPEN PLAINS. PAN DON RIVER 00:10:48 - SWORD-WIELDING COSSACKS RIDING. IN TRAINING EXERCISE. CU OLD WOMAN WAVING. 00:10:58 - MAP. CU SOUTH WEST RUSSIA, UKRAINE. UKRAINIAN SSR. 00:11:01 - CU MUSICIAN PLAYING GUITAR-LIKE STRINGED INSTRUMENT. TRADITIONAL FOLK COSTUMES. RUSSIAN DANCER, WOMEN CLAP. 00:11:12 - MONTAGE "THE LITTLE RUSSIANS": UKRAINAINS, MOLDAVIANS, BESSARABIANS 00:11:23 - MAP OF BLACK SEA, CASPIAN SEA IN FAR SOUTH. CAUCASIA. 00:11:26 - PEOPLES FROM CAUCASUS: ARMENIANS, GEORGIANS, INGUSH CHERKESS. MAN DRINKS FROM HORN. CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. 00:11:46 - MOUNTAINEER RIDES THROUGH RUGGED MOUNTAINS WAVING TO MOUNTAIN SHEPHERDS HE PASSES 00:12:03 - MAP OF TURKMEN SSR, UZBEK SSR, KIRGHIZ SSR AREAS 00:12:06 - DESERT LANDSCAPE. KARA KUM(?). CU TWO MEN LIFT & PLAY LONG HORNS. UZBECKS, TURKMEN, KIRGHIZ PEOPLES. DESERT HORSEMEN 00:12:21 - SIBERIA AREA PEOPLES: MONGOL MUSICIANS PLAY STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. BASHKIRS, TURKO-TATARS, BOURIATS?, YAKUTSKS 00:12:41 - FROZEN WASTELAND. ICE COUNTRY PEOPLES. SAMI HUNTER SHOOTS AT WHITE BEAR. LAPLANDERS. 00:12:57 - HS MOSCOW, CIRCA 1943. MONTAGE ANCIENT BUILDINGS, PEDESTRIANS, CARS, BUSES. OLD MEETS NEW, OLD RUSSIAN DRASHKA ?SP HORSE-DRAWN CAB. MODERN CARS, 1940s. LOW ANGLE TRAFFIC LIGHT. POV ON DOUBLE DECKER BUS. TROLLEY CARS. 00:13:20 - MONTAGE MODERN RUSSIAN CITIZENS: RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL FACTORY WORKER, RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, URBAN BRICK LAYER ON ROOF, RUSSIAN TRAFFIC COP, RUSSIAN RIVETER, CHILDREN, OLD FARMER, NURSE, ENGINEER, FEMALE WINDOW WASHER CLEANS CAFE WINDOW, SALESGIRL FEEDING REGISTER TAPE INTO CASH REGISTER, HOUSEWIFE SERVING FAMILY TEA OR COFFEE, POSTAL CLERKS IN BUSY POST OFFICE, RADIO ANNOUNCERS IN DJ BOOTH, AIRLINE STEWARDESS SERVES PASSENGERS, SCIENTIST IN LAB, TYPIST IN OFFICE, HARPIST STRUMMING STRINGS, BALLERINA, ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTOR 00:14:08 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN PEOPLES: CITY FOLK, COUNTRY FARMERS 00:14:25 - ANIMATED MAP OF RUSSIA SHOWING RAW MATERIAL & POPULATION STATISTICS OVER MAP 00:14:45 - CU HITLER'S "MEIN KAMP" BOOK. QUOTE FROM BOOK 00:14:54 - MASSIVE OUTDOOR NAZI RALLY. HUGE NAZI FLAGS 00:15:11 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "RUSSIA JOINS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS". NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM. MONTAGE VARIOUS NEWSPAPERS. 00:15:17 - UNITED NATIONS SESSIONS WITH DATES & QUOTES OVER: SEPTEMBER 6, 1935; SEPTEMBER 21, 1938; MEMBERS SPEAKING (MOS). CU GERMAN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE DELEGATES. MAKSIM LITVINOFF ASKS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO AID ETHIOPIA IN 1935. 00:15:57 - ANIMATED MAP OF MANCHURIA. STRUCK WITH JAPANESE SWORD 00:16:00 - MAP OF ETHIOPIA 00:16:03 - MAP OF CHECHOSLOVAKIA WITH NAZI SYMBOL. CHECHOSLOVAKIA ERASED FROM THE MAP. ARROW TO POLAND. SWASTIKA 00:16:13 - MONTAGE PRINTING PRESS, NEWSPAPERS ROLLING OFF PRESS. CU SANDWICH BOARD "DAILY HERALD, WAR" 00:16:20 - MAP OF WARSAW WITH HAMMER & SICKLE. BERLIN WITH NAZI SWASTIKA. PLANES HEADING TOWARD GERMANY. NAZIS WIPING OUT COUNTRIES. STOPS AT ENGLAND 00:16:34 - GERMAN GENERALS SHOW HITLER WAR PLANS. EASTERN BLITZ. 00:16:45 - MAP OF SOUTH & EAST OF GERMANY: HUNGARY, RUMANIA, BULGARIA, YUGOSLAVIA, GREECE 00:16:54 - HUNGARIAN GRAIN WHEAT FIELDS. HUNGARIAN FARMERS HARVEST. 00:17:01 - BAUXITE MINE, MINING CAR FULL OF BOXITE 00:17:04 - CU LONG STRIP OF ALUMINIUM ROLLING DOWN CONVEYOR 00:17:06 - LINE OF PLANES WITH PROPELLERS SPINNING 00:17:08 - HUNGARIAN ARMY MARCH THROUGH CITY 00:17:14 - MONTAGE NATURAL RESOURCES OF ROMANIA: GRAINS, OIL DERRICKS 00:17:24 - RUMANIAN ARMY MARCHING IN CITY. 00:17:30 - ANIMATED MAP WITH HUNGARY, RUMANIA, ROMANIA WITH USSR BORDERS OUTLINED. BULGARIA WITH BASES ON THE BLACK SEA. ARROWS SHOW RUSSIAN SHIPPING ROUTES. 00:17:57 - SPRING, 1941. CU HUNGARIAN ADMIRAL HORTHY DE NAGYBANYA 00:18:01 - ROMANIAN KING MICHAEL 00:18:06 - CU GENERAL ANTONESCU 00:18:09 - BULGARIAN KING BORIS 00:18:16 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES OF BULGARIAN, RUMANIAN, HUNGARIAN REVOLTS. 00:18:26 - GERMAN ARMY IN OCCUPATION, MARCH 1941 00:18:36 - MAP OF GREECE & TURKEY. ARROWS FROM EGYPT TO GREECE 00:18:46 - CU HITLER & MUSSOLINI SHAKE HANDS. 00:18:51 - MUSSOLINI SPEAKS TO HIS SUPPORTERS FROM BALCONY 00:18:58 - GREEK ARMY MARCHING PAST ANCIENT RUINS 00:19:04 - MAP SHOWING WHERE GREEKS DROVE ITALIAN ARMY BACK. MOUNTAIN CAMPAIGN. 00:19:16 - CU LOW ANGLE HITLER 00:19:18 - MUSSOLINI SALUTES AS HE PASSES CAMERA 00:19:23 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: "YUGOSLAVIA GETS HITLER TERMS. NAZI MOVE IN GREECE SEEN" 00:19:30 - CU STATUE OF YUGOSLAVIAN STATESMAN 00:19:32 - GREEK ARMY IN SKIRT-LIKE UNIFORMS MARCH TO CAMERA 00:19:38 - WWII BATTLE FOOTAGE. APRIL 6, 1941, GERMAN PLANES BOMB BELGRADE. INVADE YUGOSLAVIA. 00:19:59 - MAP SHOWING NAZI & ITALIAN ATTACK ROUTES 00:20:19 - MAP SHOWING WAR ON GREECE ROUTES 00:20:39 - AERIAL OVER ATHENS CIRCA WWII 00:20:45 - MAP SHOWING NAZI CONQUEST OF THE BALKINS 00:20:48 - MONTAGE GOOSE-STEPPING NAZI SOLDIERS. 00:20:55 - CU RUSSIAN CLOCK TOWER. 4 O'CLOCK 00:20:58 - INDUSTRIAL MONTAGE, HIGH PAN FACTORIES, ASSEMBLY LINE. RAILROAD TRAIN LOCOMOTIVES. STEEL MILL WAR PLANT. TANK PRODUCTION. 00:21:21 - RUSSIAN ARMY MARCHING 00:21:26 - RUSSIAN CITIZENS ENLISTING IN THE ARMY. TRAINING AT BOOT CAMP. DRILLING WITH BAYONETS. MOTORCYCLIST RACES BY. MOUNTED SOLDIER JUMPS HEDGE. MEN JUMP INTO WATER, SWIM IN LANES. 00:21:44 - MAP SHOWING NAZI CONQUEST FROM BLACK SEA TO BALKINS 00:21:56 - GERMANY INVADING RUSSIA. BATTLE FOOTAGE, 1941. 00:22:40 - MAP CIRCLING GERMAN ARMY'S THREE MAIN OBJECTIVES: LENINGRAD, MOSCOW, KIEV 00:23:06 - GERMAN SOLDIERS & TANKS INVADING RUSSIAN CITIES PSKOV, NOVGOROD, BREST-LITOVSK, MINSK, MOGILEV, VITEBSK. NAMES OVER IMAGES. NAZI ATTACK ON RUSSIA 00:23:25 - MAP SHOWING JULY, 1941. SMOLENSK TAKEN 00:23:38 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES OF GERMAN ATTACKS ON RUSSIA 00:23:52 - GERMAN ARMY MARCHING. MAPS SHOWING ARMIES GETTING CLOSER TO MOSCOW, BATTLE FOOTAGE. 00:24:27 - CU HITLER GIVING SPEECH, OCTOBER 3, 1941. 00:24:46 - MONTAGE WAR DAMAGE: RUSSIAN PLAINS ABLAZE BURNING, OUT-OF-CONTROL FIRES. INDUSTRIAL PLANT BOMBED BY THE GERMAN ARMY. BOMBED OUT TANKS & PLANES. PRISONERS. NEWSPAPER HEADLINES 00:25:06 - WEARY DEFEATED GERMAN SOLDIERS ON DECEMBER, 1941 00:25:16 - MONTAGE GERMAN STRATEGY. ANIMATION SHOWS "WEDGE & TRAP" WAR MANEUVER. 00:25:58 - MAP OF WAR CAMPAIGN OF POLAND, BORDER CONCENTRATION. FRANCE, ALLIED STRENGTH ON BORDERS. BALKINS, BREAK THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA. 00:26:27 - GERMAN OFFICERS LOOKING AT WAR MAPS 00:26:31 - RUSSIAN OFFICERS LOOKING AT WAR PLANS 00:26:34 - MAP SHOWING RUSSIAN STRATEGY. DEFENSE IN DEPTH, FOUR LINES OF DEFENSE AS NAZIS ATTACKED 00:27:23 - RUSSIAN ARMY ON THE MOVE. WWII FOOTAGE OF BOMBED CITIES WITH NAMES OVER: ROSTOV, KHARKOV, KIEV, KURSK, SMOLENSK, ODESSA, SEVASTOPOL, 00:30:01 - JUNE 22, 1941. CU FACES AS MASSIVE CROWD OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS LEARN THEIR COUNTRY HAS BEEN INVADED. 00:30:33 - CU STALIN SPEAKING, JUNE 22, 1941. RUSSIAN CITIZENS LISTEN TO HIS SPEECH THROUGH LOUDSPEAKERS, PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM. 00:30:48 - NEWSPAPERS ROLLING OFF PRINTING PRESS. CU MONEY EXCHANGING HANDS AS PEOPLE BUY NEWSPAPERS 00:30:53 - MONTAGE RUSSIANS COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY: RUSSIAN COUNTRYMEN ON HORSEBACK RACE TO ENLIST, RUSSIAN CITY DWELLERS WALKING TO REGISTER, WOMEN HANG POSTER. FEMALE SOLDIERS, MOBILIZATION 00:31:18 - 12 YEAR OLD BOYS WORKING IN COAL MINE 00:31:26 - RUSSIAN FEMALE SOLDIERS. WOMAN WITH RIFLE ON HER BACK. WOMAN WORKING IN FACTORY TURNING LATHE 00:31:34 - MONTAGE CITIZENS COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY: RUSSIAN FARMERS IN FIELDS, TRAIN NEARS CAMERA, WOMAN STEERING SHIP, CARRYING SACKS ON THEIR BACKS, MEN CARRY FOLDED UP IRON, CITIZENS SCOUR FIELD FOR WHEAT, MEN HERDING CATTLE, OLD MAN STANDING WATCH LOOKS UP & SHIELDS HIS EYES FROM SUN 00:32:06 - CU HAND STARTING FIRE. DESTROYING BUILDINGS, OIL DEPOTS, FACTORIES, PLANTS. BOMBING THEIR OWN POWER PLANTS. 00:33:03 - RUSSIAN ARMY WEARING NO UNIFORMS HIDDEN IN FOREST, GUERILLA ARMY. MEN & WOMEN DESTROY COMMUNICATIONS LINES, POLES, BURN RAILROAD CARS. SOLDIER SHOOTS. POV THROUGH BINOCULARS AS GERMAN SOLDIER FALLS TO GROUND. BLOWING UP BUILDINGS. 00:34:05 - MONTAGE GUERILLA ARMY, RED ARMY. SCORCHED EARTH, RUSSIAN LEADERS, STALIN 00:34:20 - GERMAN ARMY ARRIVES TO BARREN, SCORCHED, DESTROYED LAND 00:34:33 - MAP SHOWS HOW GERMAN ARMY IS STOPPED BEYOND MOSCOW 00:34:53 - FRESH RESERVES ENTERING MOSCOW, 1941. 00:37:04 - FRESH RESERVES OF RED ARMY ENTERING MOSCOW. SHADOWS, SILHOUETTES OF SOLDIERS PASS PROPAGANDA POSTERS. 00:37:47 - RUSSIAN WINTER LANDSCAPE, TREES HEAVY WITH SNOW 00:37:51 - CU CHURCH BELLS SOUNDING RINGING 00:37:54 - RUSSIAN CHURCH MASS, 1941. CONGREGATION SINGING 00:38:34 - RED ARMY FRONT LINES. MESSENGER READS LETTER 00:38:51 - RED ARMY PREPARES FOR THE NAZI ARMY: FIGHTER PLANES, BOMBER PLANES, PARATROOPERS BOARD PLANE. ARTILLERY, BIG GUN TILTED INTO POSITION. SOLDIERS GET IN TANKS, CALVARY IN POSITION, INFANTRY READY 00:39:17 - BATTLE FOOTAGE DECEMBER, 1941. DETERMINED RUSSIAN COUNTER-ATTACK. DEBACLE BEFALLS GERMANS AT MOSCOW. WINTER BATTLE 00:41:55 - RED ARMY CHEERED, LAUDED BY CITIZENS AS THEY PASS THROUGH TOWNS: VOLOKOLAMSK, YEPIFAN, TARUSSA, YASNAYA-POLYANA, VENEV. WOMAN KISSES SOLDIERS, MAKES SIGN OF THE CROSS. ROGACHEV. SOLDIER KNOCKS DOWN GERMAN SIGN FROM TREE WITH BUTT OF HIS GUN. CITIZENS GRIN FROM EAR TO EAR. MOZHAISK. BORODINO, KALUGA. 00:43:26 - RUSSIAN CITIZEN REFUGEES COME OUT FROM HIDING PLACES, MOVE BACK TO THE TOWNS. REUNITE WITH LOVED ONES. ASSEMBLING IN THE STREETS. 00:43:55 - MONTAGE RUINED HOMES, SHATTERED TOWNS STILL IN FLAMES. GUTTED. RUINS. 00:44:16 - MUSEUM, FORMER HOME OF PYTOR TCHAIKOVSKY. CU MUSICAL SCORE, SHEET MUSIC OF TCHAIKOWSKY CONCERTO NO. 1. SYMPHONY NO. 5 FIFTH SYMPHONY PLAYED, ORCHESTRA. SYMPHONY NO. 6 PLAYED. 00:45:08 - PERSON PICKING UP BOOKS, SHEET MUSIC FROM SNOWY GROUND DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS. PICKS UP BUST OF TCHAIKOVSKY 00:45:22 - DESTROYED HOME OF LEO TOLSTOY. CU BOOK "WAR & PEACE" 00:45:37 - GRAVE OF LEO TOLSTOY. NAZI SOLDIERS BURIED NEARBY. SIMPLE WHITE CROSSES WITH GERMAN CROSSES 00:45:48 - RUSSIANS LOOKING AT PILES OF FROZEN DEAD BODIES. SHOCKED, SADDENED, WOMAN WIPES TEARS FROM EYES WITH HANDKERCHIEF. MEN TAKE OFF THEIR HATS IN DEFERENCE. RUSSIANS MOURN THEIR DEAD WHERE THEY FELL 00:46:44 - DEAD CHILDREN LOOK LIKE DOLLS. 00:46:55 - YOUNG GIRLS & WOMEN, RAPED BY THE NAZIS DURING WAR, HELPED BY LOVED ONES 00:47:11 - RUSSIAN SURVIVORS LOOK AT HANGING NAZI VICTIMS. DEAD PEOPLE HANGING 00:47:18 - TINY BABY CRYING AT HIS DEAD MOTHER'S BREAST. 00:47:27 - HANGING DEAD BODIES LITTER THE LANDSCAPE, EERIE BLACK SMOKE 00:47:35 - HELLISH SCENE. CU PAN MEN & WOMEN RECITING SACRED OATH "FOR THE BURNED CITIES AND VILLAGES ... I SWEAR REVENGE UPON THE ENEMY". DEAD HANGING BODIES LITTER THE LANDSCAPE. BLOOD FOR BLOOD, DEATH FOR DEATH 00:48:24 - RUSSIAN BATTLE FRONT, BATTLE FOOTAGE 00:48:45 - MAP SHOWING COUNTER-OFFENSIVE. NAZI TROOPS BEING PUSHED BACK 00:48:58 - GERMAN ARMY RETREAT. CU HELMETS IN SNOW BENEATH GERMAN SIGN. CAPTURED GERMAN TROOPS. 00:49:38 - MONTAGE LENINGRAD, 1940s: STATUE OF LENIN, TROLLEY CARS, PEDESTRIANS, INDUSTRY, HARBOR, PORT ON THE BALTIC SEA. 00:50:12 - LENINGRAD RESIDENTS READING NEWSPAPERS, NEWS OF SOVIET COUNTER-OFFENSIVE 00:50:16 - RED ARMY, BALTIC FLEET MARCH THROUGH LENINGRAD 00:50:27 - ARMY OF CIVILIANS DIGGING TRENCHES, PUTTING UP BARRICADES. PREPARING FOR THE GERMAN ARMY. 00:50:55 - CU AIR RAID SIREN. RESIDENTS RUNNING FOR COVER IN LENINGRAD. CITY ACTIVITY COMES TO HALT. SOLDIER & FEMALE CITIZEN LOOK THROUGH BINOCULARS, LOOK OUTS. 00:51:15 - RED ARMY ATTACKS NAZI PLANES. AIR-LAND BATTLE IN LENINGRAD. JANUARY, 1943. 00:52:55 - PEOPLE OF LENINGRAD DIG THEMSELVES OUT FROM RUINS NEXT MORNING. MOTHER WEEPS FOR DEAD CHILD. CITIZENS MOURNING THE DEAD 00:53:31 - MONTAGE LENINGRAD IN RUINS. DEAD ELEPHANT IN ZOO. 00:53:51 - MAP SHOWS NAZIS SURROUNDING LENINGRAD. 00:53:58 - GERMAN MESSENGER JUMPS INTO MOTORCYCLE SIDECAR 00:54:02 - CU GERMAN HELMET ON TREE STUMP 00:54:05 - WINTER SIEGE OF LENINGRAD 00:54:36 - RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FREEZING IN TRENCHES. CU SOLDIER WITH MUSTACHE FROZEN. SOLDIERS LYING IN SNOW AIMING GUNS. WWII TRENCH WARFARE. 00:54:48 - TANKS ROLLING THROUGH LENINGRAD. HS CITY. PEOPLE HOVER OVER DEAD BODY LYING ON FROZEN GROUND. PERSON WITH HEAD COVERED PULLED ON SLED TOO WEAK TO WALK. 00:55:02 - STALLED SNOW-COVERED RAILROAD TRAIN. NO OIL FOR FUEL 00:55:04 - PEDESTRIANS WALK PAST STALLED TROLLEY CARS. NO POWER, ELECTRICITY TO RUN THEM 00:55:10 - LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WALKING IN LENINGRAD. NO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. 00:55:14 - PEOPLE WALK OVER SNOW BANK TO GET WATER FROM HOLES DUG IN THE STREET. URBAN LIFE DURING WAR 00:55:31 - PEOPLE ON STARVATION RATIONS: CU MAN CUTTING TINY SLICE OF BREAD. WOMAN RECEIVING HER RATION. 00:55:45 - WOMEN SHOVELING, CLEARING AWAY RUBBLE FROM CITY STREETS. 00:56:06 - LENINGRAD SHROUDED IN SMOKE 00:56:10 - WORKER BLOWS ON & RUBS HIS HANDS TOGETHER FOR WARMTH. WORKING IN WINTER COAT & HAT. ROUGH WORK CONDITIONS 00:56:12 - CU CUTTING THIN SLICE OF BREAD FROM LOAF. 00:56:15 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR WAR. WWII FOOTAGE, LENINGRAD 00:56:23 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWS GERMAN ATTACK ON LENINGRAD. 00:56:29 - WWII FOOTAGE OF EASTERN FRONT: BUILDING BOMBED COMPLETELY COLLAPSES IN TWO SECONDS. HEAVY BOMBARDMENT. AS BOMBS GO OFF, CUTS BACK & FORTH TO WAR PLANT WORKERS KEEPING UP WITH PRODUCTION 00:57:38 - LENINGRAD DURING WWII. RUSSIANS PULLING SLEDS WITH DEAD BODIES ON THEM. ARMED GUARD 00:57:58 - MAP SHOWING LENINGRAD & ITS PROXIMITY TO BALTIC SEA & LAKE LADOGA. 00:58:27 - PAN LAKE LADOGA FROZEN OVER. FROZEN LANDSCAPE. TRACTORS PLOWS THROUGH SNOW ON LAKE SURFACE CREATING HIGHWAY FOR ARMY TRUCKS & SUPPLIES TO CROSS OVER BRINGING FOOD, OIL, GRAINS, FUEL, ETC. 00:59:18 - GERMAN NAZI PLANES FLY OVERHEAD. CU BOMBS DROP FROM PLANE. WWII EASTERN FRONT FOOTAGE. GERMAN PLANES BOMBING THE ROAD, TRUCKS KEEP GOING. 01:00:02 - RUSSIANS BUILDING RAILROAD TRACKS ACROSS FROZEN LAKE. FIRST TRAIN ROLLS ACROSS FROZEN LAKE 01:00:27 - TRAIN PULLS INTO LENINGRAD. SICK WOMEN & FROZEN CHILDREN BOARD TRAIN 01:00:43 - TRAFFIC CONTROLLER FLAGS ON BUS. LAKE TRAFFIC CONTINUES 01:00:51 - SOLDIERS IN WHITE CAMOUFLAGE STORM SUITS RACE ACROSS OPEN FIELD
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-290