- Title: VM-1360
- Summary: THE SOLDIER RETURNED: SOME 1963 CONTEMPORARY INTERVIEWS AND BEAUTY SHOTS.
- Description:00:18:24 - CU HUGE MICROPHONES. MAN AT CONTROL ROOM TURNS ON POWER TO MICROPHONES. CRUSHING CROWD IN MOSCOW'S RED SQUARE CHEER AS MICROPHONES ANNOUNCE END OF WAR ? TWO YOUNG WOMEN RUN TO ELDERLY LADY SEATED ON PARK BENCH, HUG AND KISS HER AND RUN ON. SOVIET SOLDIERS ON BACK OF TRUCK DO A DANCE AS TRUCK SPEEDS DOWN STREET. SOLDIERS ARE MOBBED IN STREETS. 00:19:13 - VET IN HOSPITAL CLOTHES, CRUTCHES, DANCES IN JOY. MEN KISS MEN IN STREET. WOMEN HUG SOLDIERS IN STREET. SOVIET SOLDIERS LOWER ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, COVER THE MUZZLE WITH A CLOTH. ARTILLERY MEN KISS THEIR CANNON. VARIOUS PREVIOUSLY LOGGED SCENES OF DEVASTATED SOVIET CITIES 00:20:25 - SOVIET SOLDIERS WASH, SHAVE, PLAY MUSIC ON ACCORDION IN THE FIELD AS THEY PREPARE TO GO HOME. SOLDIERS BEING WELCOMED HOME.(** THIS SECTION PREVIOUSLY LOGGED). 00:22:15 - VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIER WITH BANDAGED HEAD PERUSES THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS HOME. AERIAl VIEWS OF DEVASTATED CITY WITH NO BUILDINGS UNTOUCHED, BY THE BOMBING. WOMEN, CHILDREN HUDDLED ON GROUND AMID THE RUINS OF THEIR HOMES. WOMEN MAKING BREAD IN OUTSIDE OVEN. (REMAINS OF FIREPLACE). 00:23:28 - VARIOUS GRAPHIC SCENES DEAD BODIES BEING REMOVED FROM MINE SHAFT (?) WHERE THEY WERE THROWN. YOUNG WOMEN, MEN SOLEMNLY WATCHING. ELDERLY WOMEN CRYING HYSTERICALLY. 00:24:38 - VARIOUS SCENES RUSSIAN MEN, WOMEN DIGGING OUT AND REBUILDING USING CRUDE METHODS AND MANUAL LABOR. (PREVIOUSLY LOGGED). 00:26:44 - PAN SKELETAL REMAINS BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS. AERIAL VIEW SAME AS SEEN FROM BI- PLANE FLYING OVER CITY. PHOTOGRAPHER SEATED IN OPEN COCKPIT AIMS HIS FILM CAMERA TO TAKE SHOTS OF CITY IN RUINS. (LOGGED). AERIAL SHADOW OF BI-PLANE MOVES ALONG RUINS. 00:27:38 - VARIOUS VIEWS REFUGEES ON ROAD, OXEN DRIVEN CARTS WITH BELONGINGS. 00:29:38 - VARIOUS SCENES WOMEN LIVING IN RUINS OF GERMAN BOMBER AND IN CAVES. WOMEN ON CHOW LINES. 00:30:04 - MS CAMEL PULLS MAN WITH HIS CART OF BELONGS. oddity. 00:32:09 - MCU ANDREY GROMYKO BEING INTERVIEWED BY REPORTERS AS HE SITS IN GARDEN (COLOR) PREVIOUSLY LOGGED. (VM-1336, 06 23 35) 00:34:00 - TO 00 46 56 HAS BEEN LOGGED PREVIOUSLY.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1360