- Title: VM-1214
- Summary: LENIN MEMORIAL:
- Description:00:33:10 - CROWD (CIRCA 1924) CHILDREN, MEN AND WOMEN WITH BANNERS MANY CRYING, PARADE BEFORE LENIN TOMB ON HIS DEATH IN 1924. VARIOUS HOTS HUGE CROWDS IN STREETS WITH BANNERS. STEAM WHISTLES BLOWING, CANNONS GOING OFF IN MEMORIUM. 00:33:51 - 1924 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES TELL OF CHANGING CITY OF PETROGRAD TO "LENINGRAD". (**NOTE : CITY WAS FORMERLY CALLED ST. PETERS BURG, CHANGED TO PETROGRAD (1914 - 1924, THEN TO LENINGRAD 1924 - 1991, THEN BACK TO ST. PETERSBURG WHEN COMMUNISM FELL IN 1991). VARIOUS SHOTS GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS WHERE LETTER CAME FROM CITIZENS TO PUT UP A MONUMENT TO LENIN IN LENINGRAD.WHERE TO ERECT IT WAS DISCUSSED. 00:34:49 - LS GIGANTIC MONUMERNT SUPER-IMPOSED ON SUGGESTED SITE AT THE PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS. 00:34:57 - PAN SQUARE FACING FINLAND STATION (CIRCA 1924). SOLDIERS ON ROOF OF DTATION CONTAINING GIANT RED STAR AND LARGE PORTRAIT OF LENIN ON FACADE, BLOW BUGLES PAN HUGE CROWD PPOSING BEFORE STATION. IT WAS HEREOIN APRIL 3, 1917 THAT LENIN PROCLAIMED, "LONG LIVE THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION". 00:35:06 - CU WRITING ON CORNERSTONE WHICH WAS LAYED APRIL 16, 1924. CU DOCUMENT TELLING THE TERMS OF THE MONUMENT. VOICE OVEREXPLAINS TERMS. LS LENIN FINLAND RAILWAYS TRAIN AS IT SPED ON TRACKS TOWARDS PETROGRAD DURING REVOLUTION. CU MONUMENT OF ACTUAL HUGE ARMORED CAR LENIN SPOKE FROM AT THE STATION. VARIOUS DRAWINGS OF THE MORE THAN 60 MEMORIAL PROJECTS SUBMITTED. MS RAWINGS OF THE ONE SELECTED. 00:36:47 - CIRCA 1924 OF THREE MEN COMMISSIONED TO MAKE THE FINAL MODEL. MONTAGE ANIMATED DRAWINGS AHOW THE MANY PEDESTALS USED INCLUDING THE ARMORED CAR. CU FINALLY THE GENERAL COMPOSITION WAS FOUND. 00:37:24 - MONTAGE VARIOUS FILM SHOTS LENIN MAKING SPEECHES, STUDYING PLANS, AS AUTHORS TRIED TO PICK THE MOST TYPICAL OF LENIN'S GESTURES. VARIOUS CU PHOTOS LENIN. 00:38:59 - VARIOUS SHOTS STATUE BEING MADE, LIQUID BRONZE BEING POURED. MS ZOOM AWAY HUGE STATUE IN BRONZE SURROUNDED BY WORKERS AT PLANT. VARIOUS PHOTOS PEDESTAL BEING PREPARED, CIRCA 1926 ?. 00:39:44 - NOVENBER 7. 1926, PHOTOS HUGE CROWDS AROUND COVERED MONUMENT AND ITS UNVEILING. VARIOUS SHOTS LENIN MONUMENT. VARIOUS SHOTS LONG LINES CHILDREN LAYING FLOWERS AT LENIN MONUMENT, EVERY YEAR ON LINEN'S N BIRTHDAY. CROWD CHILDREN RECITE OATH TO LENIN, WHICH CAN BE HEARD ACROSS THE SQUARE. "I PLEDGE TO FERVENTLY LOVE MY HOMELAND, TO LIVE, STUDY AND WORK AS THE GREAT LENIN TAUGHT US TO DO". 00:41:41 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-1214