- Title: VM-1335
- Summary: BALAD OF DAGESTAN:
- Description:05:48:47 - VARIOUS VIEWS MOUNTAIN GORGE WITH WATER STREAMING DOWN BETWEEN ROCK FORMATIONS. CU FACE SHOT DAGESTANI WITH HIS TRADITIONAL PERSIAN FUR HAT.. ELECTRIC GRILL TOWERS. AERIAL VIEW VILLAGE AMID VAST FARM LANDS. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG DAGESTANI GIRL. LS PAN VILLAGE AMID RUGGED MOUNTAIN RANGE. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG DAGESTANI MAN. MS SHEPHERD TENDING HIS SHEEP AMID RUGGED MOUNTAINS.. 05:49:24 - AERIAL PAN SMALL VILLAGE OF LAKS WITH EACH SITS ON HILL AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. MS SMALL AIRLINER TAXIING. CU FACE SHOT ELDERLY LAKI. LS PAN COLD, RUGGED AND BARREN HILLS. CU TILT UP STONE LIGHT-HOUSE- LIKE BUILDING. LS NATIVE FAMILY EXIT SHACK-LIKE HOME JUTTING OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH ANOTHER SHACK ON LEVEL RIGHT BELOW THEIR FEET. MS LITTLE GIRL STANDS BY HER DOG OUTSIDE STONE HOUSE. 05:49:57 - TWO MEN IN VILLAGE OF KUMYK (VILLAGE OF GUNS) GUNSMITHS MAKING RIFLE WITH CRUDE LATHE. CU HAND WORKING CLAY ON POTTER'S WHEEL IN VILLAGE OF MULHAN (?) THE VILLAGE OF POTTERY..CU OLD WOMAN'S FACE PEERS THROUGH HEAD COVER. CU VASE BEING TURNED ON POTTERS WHEEL, CU HAND DECORATING VASE. MS ELDERLY CRAFTSMAN IN NATIVE FUR HAT, SITS OUTSIDE HIS SHACK MAKING SHOES IN THE VILLAGE OF SHOEMAKERS. CU SAME. VOICE OVER SAYS THAT EACH VILLAGE IN DAGESTAN SPECIALIZED IN A DIFFERENT CRAFT. "ONCE THERE WAS A VILLAGE OF BEGGARS" 05:50:29 - CU VILLAGERS WATCH AS TIGHT ROPE WALKER PERFORMS. LS HE SITS ON BENCH ON TIGHT ROPE AS HE BALANCES HIMSELF WITH LONG POLE.. CU VARIOUS VIEWS VILLAGE ARTISANS DOING THEIR CRAFTS. arts and crafts. 05:50:44 - VARIOUS VIEWS DAGESTANI MEN WITH THEIR OX-DRIVEN CARTS AND DONKEYS,,MOVING OUT OF VILLAGE AS THEY LEAVE HOME TO LOOK FOR WORK TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. 05:51:02 - LS MAN IN OX-DRIVEN CART CROSSING MOUNTAIN STREAM OTHERS ON HORSEBACK. AERIAL LS WINDING ROAD IN RUGGED HILLS. MS TALL OLD GRAVE STONES WITH CARVINGS IN ANCIENT CEMETERY. CU FACE SHOT WELL-GROOMED MAN GOING THROUGH MOTIONS OF CONDUCTING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, OUTDOORS. CU HIS HANDS GESTURING LIKE CONDUCTOR. 05:51:37 - SMALL BI-PLANE FLYING LOW AMID MOUNTAINS TOWARDS CAMERA. LS ZOOM IN ONCE REMOTE VILLAGE OF KUMYK AT BASE OF HILL. IS NOW ONLY 30 MINUTES AWAY FROM CAPITAL OF DAGESTAN (MAKHACHKALA) BY PLANE. 05:52:00 - MS MAN WORKING ON ENGINE OF TRACTOR. CU MAN WORKING ON TELEPHONE OR ELECTRIC WIRES ON POLE. FACING CAMERA. MAN WALKING WITH WALKING STICK PULLS ALONG HIS DONKEY, LADEN WITH MILK CANS. (MILKMAN ?) 05:52:20 - MS TWO YOUNG GIRLS PLAYING HOPSCOTCH IN THEIR YARD, BICYCLE AGAINST WALL IN B/G. CU FACE SHOT YOUNG GIRL. VARIOUS VIEWS BOYS SWIMMING, FROLICKING AROUND IN LAKE. OTHER BOYS REMOVING THEIR CLOTHING TO GO SWIMMING. DUCK SWIMMING IN LAKE SUDDENLY DUCKS HEAD INTO WATER (TO CATCH A MEAL ?). MLS VIEW OF HOMES IN VILLAGE. 05:52:54 - CU FAMILY PHOTOS OF BEARDED MAN WITH LARGE PERSIAN LAMB FUR HAT AND COSSACK UNIFORM., YOUNGER MAN WITH SIMILAR HAT, TURTLE NECK SWEATER, STERN FACE. TWO WOMEN IN NATIVE COSTUME, HEAD SCARVES, SHAWLS. 05:53:03 - ZOOM IN GROUP FAMILY PHOTO TO SMALL BOY IN UNIFORM WHO IS . NARRATOR;S FATHER,. (MAKAMET KAHN)VOICE OVER (NARRATOR) TELLS FATHER'S STORY, WHO " LEFT KUMYK IN HIS YOUTH, HE WAS THE FIRST TO VIOLATE THE FAMILY PRECEPT TO ABANDON THE HEREDITARY CRAFT OF GUNSMITH". CU KAHN AS TEEN-AGER AND ANOTHER PHOTO AS YOUNG ADULT SOLDIER. CU LATER PHOTO AS DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT, POSING WITH MICROSCOPE. 05:53:28 - PHOTO MAKAMET KAHN IN OPERATING ROOM WORKING ON PATIENT WITH OTHER DOCTORS. LS PAN VILLAGE OF KUMYK WHERE THE DOCTOR RETURNED TO HIS NATIVE VILLAGE EVERY SUMMER. 05:53:52 - CU DOCTOR KAHN WEARING REFLECTOR MIRROR ON HEAD AS HE EXAMINES PATIENT, VARIOUS CU PHOTOS OF DOCTOR PER OPERATIONS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH. CU HANDS OF CONDUCTOR CONDUCTING ORCHESTRA. CU YOUNG GIRL WRITING ON BLACKBOARD IN CLASSROOM CU HANDS OF GIRL MIXING CHEMICALS IN TEST TUBES. MCU PENSIVE GIRL SEATED AT DESK WITH PEN AGAINST LIPS..TEEN-AGE STUDENTS CHECKING EACH OTHERS WORK. education 05:55:08 - BOY USING SIGN LANGUAGE TO TALK UP TO MAN AT WINDOW OF APARTMENT, MAN ANSWERS WITH HAND GESTURES. FACE SHOTS YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS IN CLASSROOM/ 05:56:01 - MAN RIDING MOTORBIKE ON DIRT ROAD THROUGH BARREN HILLY AREA. VILLAGE IN DISTANT B/G, DOGS IN FIELD. 05:56:05 - PEOPLE GATHER AROUND AIRPLANE TO SEE OFF FAMILY WITH CHILDREN, CU MAN WITH SUNGLASSES CARRYING CHILD. HAND SHAKING ALL AROUND. 05:56:23 - MCU SMALL CHILD CLIMBING INTO PLANE ON LADDER IS HELPED BY ADULT HANDS. CU OLD VILLAGER WITH BLACK PERSIAN LAMB HAT WAVES WHITE FLAG FOR BI-WING PLANE TO TAKE OFF. PLANE REAR TO CAMERA TAKES OFF TOWARDS DISTANT HILLS SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP AS WELL AS SHEEP DOG WATCHES EVENT. 05:56:50 - PAN CLOSE BARREN HILLS, UPPER AND LOWER WINGS OF PLANE IN F/G. POV PILOT. 05:57:07 - AERIAL PARACHUTIST DROPPING OUT OF PLANE, CHUTE OPENING.. CU PHOTO PARACHUTIST FROM KUMYK BECAME COUNTRY'S TOP PARACHUTE JUMPER. VARIOUS PHOTOS OF LARGE NUMBERS OF PARACHUTISTS POSING IN GROUPS. PHOTOS STUDENT PARACHUTISTS ALL LINED UP WITH THEIR PARACHUTES ON. PAN TO GIRL PARACHUTES IN GROUP MARINA VASCOVA (?) SHE BECAME ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S FINEST FLYERS. 05:58:13 - SOVIET PARATROOPS CLIMB ONTO WING OF HUGE PLANE AND INTO SIDE DOOR OF PLANE. (1942). MS PARATROOPS LINE UP, SIT, INSIDE HUGE PLANE. LS PLANE TAKING OFF. SKY LIGHTS UP AT NIGHT AS ANTI AIRCRAFT GUNS FIRE AND SPOT LIGHTS SCAN SKY. AERIAL VIEW PARATROOPS JUMPING OUT OF PLANE.. VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIERS CHARGING BEHIND TANKS. 05:59:10 - MORE SHOTS FAMED PARACHUTIST FROM KUMYK., VIEW OF CHUTIST DURING HIS WORLD'S HIGHEST JUMP. 05:59:35 - VARIOUS VIEWS PARACHUTIST CLIMBS INTO BALLOON WHICH RISES TO THE SUB STRATOSPHERE. SHOTS OF CHUTIST JUMPING OUT. LS VIEW CHUTIST FALLING THROUGH THE AIR, PARACHUTE OPENS. HE NEVER MADE IT TO GROUND ALIVE. aviation, CU CONDUCTOR MAKES DRAMATIC GESTURE WITH HIS ARMS OUTSTRETCHED, TILT DOWN GRAVESTONE OF HEROIC PARACHUTIST. "AMNHTAEB (RUSSIAN NAME). 1908 - 1945 06:00:01 - TILT UP MONUMENT AND RUSSIAN WRITING ON IT,. TO BUST FIGURE AT TOP, OF AMEK CON SOL TOM (?) TWICE HERO OF SOVIET UNION,, (MONUMENT MADE TO HIM THOUGH STILL ALIVE), SHOT DOWN 49 ENEMY PLANES DURING WWII MS ZOOM IN AMET SITTING AT DESK. . MS MIDDLE-AGED AMET IS ASSISTED BY HIS WIFE AS HE PITS ON FLIGHT SUIT. AMET AFTER 30 YEARS IS STILL A TEST PILOT. CU AMET WITH SPACE HELMET AT CONTROLS OF PLANE. LS PLANE IN FLIGHT, MS AMET IN COCKPIT. 06:01:24 - CU MUSICIAN'S FINGERS TAPPING ON TOM TOM. ACROBATICS DO FORWARD FLIP AS THEY RUN FROM BEHIND STAGE CURTAIN TOWARDS CAMERA, ACROBATS CLIMBING ROPES AND ROPE WALKING. TIGHT ROPE WALKERS, INCLUDING CHILD DOING THEIR ACT, YOUNG GIRL PERFORMER DOES GREAT TIGHT ROPE ACT. CU HEAD ON HEAD BALANCING ACT ON TIGHT ROPE. entertainment, circus, acrobatics. 06:02:50 - CU FACE SHOT ELDERLY DAGESTANI POET-LAUREATE WITH LONG MOUSTACHE. TAKES OUT HIS FLUTE, WASHES IT THEN PLAYS TUNE AS HE SITS AT DINNER TABLE WITH CONDUCTOR AND OTHERS. CONDUCTOR ACCOMPANIES HIM BY PLAYING TOM ROM ON WODEN CHAIR SEAT. PAN PHOTO CHILDREN AND MEN IN AFRICAN VILLAGE. AS THEY WATCH BAND OF BLACK MUSICIANS AND WHITE DAGESTANI CONDUCTOR, POSING. CONDUCTOR POSES WITH ASIAN YOUNG PEOPLE ON FERRYBOAT. 06:04:44 - PAN LS STATUE OF LIBERTY TO DAGESTANI CONDUCTOR LEANING ON RAILING (STATEN ISLAND FERRY ?) TILT UP SKYSCRAPER IN NEW YORK CITY (TILTED TO SIDE SHOT). CONDUCTOR POSING WITH YOUNG GROUP. (PHOTOS). 06:05:24 - PAN FROM HANDS ON PIANO KEYS TO FULL SHOT OF DAGESTANI CONDUCTOR AT THE PIANO. CU PHOTO OF DUKE ELLINGTON WITH HEAD DOWN (AT PIANO ?) CU CONDUCTOR, ZOOM AWAY CONDUCTOR WITH DUKE ELLINGTON. jazz music, musician, personality, entertainment. 06:05:50 - LS EAGLE IN FLIGHT, TILT DOWN TO HUGE CRATER IN GROUND NEAR BOMBED OUT VILLAGE DELGAMO. 06:06:08 - CU DOOR OPENS SETTING OFF BELL WHEN HITTING IT. MS VILLAGE HOUSE CU MS TWO ITALIAN ELDERLY MEN, AND WOMAN WITH SHAWL POSING BY HOUSE. ZOOM IN BALD ELDERLY MAN (KOMOROV) WHO LED ITALIAN PARTISANS IN DELGAMO, BECAME ITALIAN NATIONAL HERO., CU ZOOM IN GROUP PHOTO OF SCHOOL CHILDREN TO KOMOROV WHEN HE WAS A BOY, MORE PHOTOS OF KOMOROV AS YOUNG MAN AND SOLDIER. 06:07:30 - CU YOUNG CONDUCTOR CONDUCTING ORCHESTRA. VARIOUS VIEWS ORCHESTRA PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC. ZOOM IN VIOLIN PLAYERS MALE AND FEMALE, BACK TO CONDUCTOR ENDING THE PIECE. 06:08:20 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-1335