- Title: VM-287
- Summary: THE STALIN ERA (PT.2): USES NEWSREEL FOOTAGE TO OUTLINE IMPORTANT EVENTS PRECEDING WWII. EXPLAINS STALIN'S EFFORTS TO BUILD HIS PERSONAL IMAGE. REVIEWS THE NON-AGGRESSION PACT SIGNED WITH THE GERMAN REICH. DISCUSSES THE GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA & THE JOINING OF ALLIES BY THE USSR. TELLS HOW STALIN MANEUVERED AT TEHERAN, YALTA, & POTSDAM TO MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS FOR THE COMMUNISTS. CONCLUDES WITH RUSSIA'S CONTINUED BUILD-UP OF STRENGTH & INFLUENCE WORLDWIDE. COLD WAR.
- Description:00:28:45 - RECREATION: ACTOR PORTRAYING STALIN GIVES SPEECH 00:30:07 - STILLS & DRAWINGS STALIN'S RISE TO POWER 00:30:38 - PAN DOWN BOOK SHELVES TO BOOKS HOUSED AT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR: REVOLUTION AND PEACE. COMMUNIST LITERATURE. BOOKS ON STALIN. 00:30:51 - HOOVER INSTITUTE'S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITOLD SWORAKOWSKI. HAND ON GLOBE AS HE SPEAKS 00:31:59 - RUSSIA & GERMANY SIGN NON-AGGRESSION PACT, AUGUST 1939. RIBBENTROP AND MOLOTOV 00:32:08 - CU STALIN 00:32:10 - MAP SHOWING NEW PARTITION OF POLAND. BALTIC SEA 00:32:18 - CU GERMAN DOCUMENTS CAPTURED BY THE AMERICANS IN 1945 00:32:53 - NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE NON-AGGRESSION PACT 00:33:41 - ECU BARREL OF BIG GUN, HEAVY ARTILLERY WEAPON. WWII FOOTAGE. NAZI BLITZ AGAINST RUSSIA. CAPTURED SOVIET REGIMENT. 00:34:14 - PEASANT WOMEN GIVE NAZI GERMAN SOLDIERS FLOWERS. SEEN AS THE LIBERATORS. 00:34:17 - CITIZENS RIPPING POSTER OF STALIN 00:34:22 - RUSSIAN FARMERS USING SCYTHES. FARMER USING SCYTHE FROM BACK OF HORSE-DRAWN WAGON. 00:34:32 - CALANDER PAGE: JULY 3, 1941 00:34:35 - ACTOR AS STALIN GIVING HIS SCORCHED EARTH POLICY SPEECH. CUTS TO ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE. CU LOUDSPEAKERS. RUSSIAN CITIZENS LISTEN TO SPEECH OVER LOUDSPEAKERS. PUBLIC ADDRESS. 00:35:41 - WWII FOOTAGE NAZI ARMY ADVANCES ON MOTORCYCLES WITH SIDE CARS. 00:36:02 - STILLS 00:36:19 - POV IN FIGHTER PLANE FLYING LOW OVER RUSSIAN WINTER LANDSCAPE. HITLER SUSPENDS OPERATIONS 00:36:32 - SUMMER 1942: WAR RESUMES. CU SOLDIER SHIELDS HIS EARS AS BIG GUN, HEAVY ARTILLERY WEAPON IS FIRED. SOUTHERN RUSSIA. 00:36:39 - NAZI ATTACK ON STALINGRAD: AUGUST 1942. GERMAN SOLDIERS FORCE THEIR WAY INTO THE CITY. POV DRIVING THROUGH CITY IN RUINS. 00:38:52 - JANUARY 1943. SIXTH GERMAN ARMY SURRENDERS IN STALINGRAD. 00:39:14 - NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 00:39:58 - THE BIG THREE IN TEHERAN: CHURCHILL, STALIN, FDR. FDR LOOKS AT SWORD. 00:40:47 - NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT THE BIG THREE TEHERAN MEETING 00:41:10 - ACTOR PORTRAYING STALIN GIVES SPEECH. HISTORICAL RECREATION 00:43:28 - FDR ARRIVES IN YALTA FOR THE BIG THREE MEETING FEBRUARY 1945. STALIN ARRIVES. 00:45:30 - AUGUST 6, 1945: ATOMIC BLAST, MUSHROOM CLOUD. NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGE SUPERIMPOSED. FIRST ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON JAPAN. 00:46:05 - LOS ANGELES TIMES NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGE ANNOUNCING END OF WWII 00:46:55 - HISTORICAL REENACTMENT OF RUMANIAN ULTIMATUM. ROMANIA 00:48:23 - HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENT OF POLITBORO MEMBER GIVING ANIMATED SPEECH. THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN 00:50:47 - STILLS: ANDREY ZHDANOV, POLITBORO 00:51:19 - CU DESK, PIPE IN ASHTRAY. MAN'S HAND WRITING WITH PEN. HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENT. DISCUSS ZHDANOV. 00:52:19 - CU SECRET REPORT: "SECRET SPEECH OF KHRUSHCHEV, FEBRUARY 25, 1956" 00:53:13 - STILL: 19TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY. PAGES FROM STALIN'S PAMPHLET "ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISM IN THE USSR" 00:54:15 - CU "SOVIET NEWS INTERNATIONAL STALIN PEACE PRIZE PRESENTED" JANUARY 13, 1953. PRAVDA ARTICLE ON THE ARREST OF 9 LEADING SOVIET PHYSICIANS. "THE DOCTOR'S PLOT" 00:54:31 - KHRUSHCHEV GIVING SPEECH WITH PAGE FROM "KHRUSHCHEV'S SECRET SPEECH" SUPERIMPOSED.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-287