- Title: VM-1361
- Summary: THE GREAT PLAN FOR THE ELECTRIFICATION OF RUSSIA: AFTER WWI AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, LENIN CALLS FOR THE ELECTRIFICATION OF RUSSIA. (GOELRO PLAN) 1920S FILM SHOWING EARLY PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION FOR ELECTRIFICATION TO LATEST NUCLEAR POWER AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANTS IN RUSSIA.
- Description:00:42:06 - LS VIEW SOVIET ROCKET LAUNCH INTO SPACE. AERIAL VIEW LIT UP CITY AT NIGHT AND ITS MOVING TRAFFIC AS SEEN FROM HIGH UP. MS VARIOUS VIEWS ELECTRIFIED CITY BUILDINGS AND TRAFFIC AT NIGHT. LARGE LIT UP PICTURE OF LENIN ON SIDE OF BUILDING LIT UP BY NEON LIGHTS. ABOVE VIEW GRAND KREMLIN PALACE AND OTHER KREMLIN TOWERS LIT UP AT NIGHT. 00:42:42 - VIEW OF PEOPLE STANDING ON SUBWAY PLATFORM AS SEEN BY TRAIN PULLING INTO WELL-LIT MODERN STATION. CROWDS PEOPLE RIDING UP, DOWN ESCALATORS. WELL-LIT DEPARTMENT STORE AS SEEN BY PASSING CAR. ABOVE VIEW PEOPLE AT DESKS PERUSING BOOKS IN LIBRARY. ORNATE CRYSTAL CHANDELIER HANGING ABOVE PEOPLE SITTING IN PALATIAL AUDITORIUM. 00:43:07 - MS ATHLETE DOING EXERCISES ON PARALLEL BARS WITH CEILING FULL OF BRIGHT LIGHTS AAS SEEN FROM GROUND UNDER ATHLETE LOOKING UP. GIRL DOING EXERCISES ON BALANCE BAR. CARS PASSING THROUGH WELL LIT TUNNEL. MS. VARIOUS SHOTS WELDER AT WORK WITH SPARKS FLYING.. OTHER SHOTS OF ELECTRIC AT WORK. 00:44:13 - MAP OF RUSSIA, ZOOM IN MOSCOW. WARSHIPS OF ENGLAND AND OTHER NATIONS AT SEA. SOLDIERS FROM ARMIES OF 14 STATES INCLUDING U. S. MARCH INTO RUSSIA DURING RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. LS CALVARY CHARGE DOWEN COUNTRYSIDE. SHELL EXPLOSIONS. SMOKE RISING FROM BOMBED BUILDINGS. 00:44:42 - PAN EARLY CENTURY MUD HUTS WITH THATCHED ROOFS IN RUSSIA. LARGE MERCHANT SHIP LISTS TO ITS SIDE ON DOCK. IDLE LOCOMOTIVE COVERED IN SNOW. CU PHOTO LENIN ZOOM AWAY. VIEW SNOW BOUND CITY SQUARE AND P PEDESTRIANS. 00:45:23 - CU PHOTO LENIN AS HE WRITES. CU HAND WRITTEN LETTER TELLING OF LENIN PLAN TO BUILD 20, 30 OR MORE POWER STATIONS, "IN TO COVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY WITH A NETWORK OF CENTERS,........". "IN 10, 20 YEARS WE'LL MAKE AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL RUSSIA, ELECTRIC". MS VARIOUS VIEWS HOUSE THAT LETTER WAS DELIVERED TO IN MOSCOW TO MAN CALLED JEJUVONOVSKY (?). TELLING HIM OF THE GOELRO PLAN. CU VIEW PHOTO OF JEJUVONOSKY (SOUNDS LIKE?). THREE ELDERLY MENN AND WOMAN WALK THROUGH HOUSE LIBRARY ROOM. TELL ABOUT THE MEETINGS IN THEIS HOUSE WITH LENIN. ELDERLY WOMAN IN ROOM IS FIRST RUSSIAN WOMAN TO BECOME AN ENGINEER, TELLS OF HER ROLE. VOICE OVER TRANSLATES. VARIOUS PHOTOS OF PLANNERS OF PROJECT CALLED THE "GOELRO PLAN". VARIOUS VIEWS OF LIBRARY AND OFFICE ROOMS INSIDE HOUSE WITH BOOK EXPLAINING "GOELRO PLAN" ON DESK 00:47:45 - MS FACADE BOLSHOI THEATER DEC. 22, 1920. ABOVE VIEW INSIDE THEATER WHERE DELEGATES OF 8TH CONGRESS OF SOVIETS MEET. VARIOUS VIEWS AUDITORIUM FULL WITH DELEGATES. PAINTING OF LENIN SPEAKING TO GROUP. HE PRESENTED HIS PLAN TO 8TH CONGRESS. 00:48:08 - MS FILE FOOTAGE OF JUJUVONOSKY. CU FACE SHOTS RUSSIAN PEASANT MEN WITH BEARDS. MS MAP SHOWS "GOELRO" ELECTRIFICATION PLAN. VARIOUS 1920 FILM AND PHOTO SHOTS SHOWING EARLY ELECTRIFICATION AT THE FIRST SHATORA POWER STATION. 00:49:50 - LS ABOVE VIEW CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT BEING STARTED ON BANKS OF VOLGA RIVER IN 1920S. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN AT WORK PUSHING WHEEL BARROWS. LS PRIMITIVE CRANE AT WORK. "THERE WAS A SHORTAGE OF CRITICAL MATERIALS, MACHINERY". POLICE WITH KAISER TYPE HELMETS LINE UP FOR CHIEF. AERIAL PAN CONSTRUCTION SITE. MS MEN AND WOMEN LINE UP FOR SKIM MILK, THERE WAS NO BREAD. CU CONSTRUCTION CHIEF HENRY BRACCIO POSES FOR SHOT. HE WROTE HOW LENIN'S INSPIRING WORDS KEPT THE MEN WORKING UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS. MORE OF MEN WORKING (1920S) 00:51:07 - LS VARIOUS SHOTS VOLGA HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION WHICH WAS PUT INTO USE DECEMBER 1926. LS TRAIN CROSSING BRIDGE OVER RIVER. ABOVE VIEWS INDUSTRIAL AREAS AND MINES. "ELECTRIFICATION OF RURAL AREAS WAS A GREAT VICTORY". VARIOUS VIEW PEASANTS GATHERED TO CELEBRATE THE EVENT. B/G MUSIC WOMAN WITH SHRILL, PIERCING VOICE SINGS JOYFUL FOLK SONG, ACCOMPANIED BY CHORUS. russian ethnic music, song. 00:52:30 - CU LIGHT BULB CONTAINING FILAMENT OF LENIN FIGURE AS IT SLOWLY ILLUMINATES. 00:52:53 - PAN SHOTS RIVER RAPIDS. LS HUGE EXPLOSION REDUCES HILL ALONG RIVER TO FLAT LAND, AS ANOTHER HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT BUILDING IS LAUNCHED (MARCH 1927). VARIOUS VIEWS GIANT CRANES AT CONSTRUCTING PLANT. HUGE DAM IN B/G. GOOD SHOTS MEN WORKING AT SITE IN 1927. 00:53:42 - ABOVE VIEW LARGE MARCHING BAND, MANY TUBAS, DRUMS, PLAY TO CELEBRATE OPENING DNIEPER HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT WAS PUT INTO OPERATION ON OCTOBER 10, 1932 LS VIEWS OF HUGE DAM AND PLANT. LS MIKHAIL KALININ, SOVIET BOLSHEVIK AND POLITICIAN, ADDRESSES CROWD FROM PLATFORM. FRENCH COMMUNIST HENRI BALDUCE (?) ALSO SPEAKS. GOOD SHOTS RUSSIAN CROWD OF THE 1930S. "IN SPITS OF DIFFICULTIES THE GOELRO PLAN WAS FULFILLED IN 10 YEARS. 00:55:12 - VARIOUS VIEWS HORDES OF RUSSIAN TROOP MARCH OFF FOR WWII. VARIOUS VIEWS GERMAN PLANES BOMBING SOVIET DAMS, PLANTS. VARIOUS SHOTS DESTROYED DAMS. VARIOUS SHOTS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FIRING SKYWARD. 00:55:47 - VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS CLEANING UP RUBBLE OF PLANTS. AND RESTORATION WORK BEING DONE ON THE DNIEPER STATION. SHOTS OF GIANT GENERATORS, DAM LOCKS OPENING. WATER FLOWING THROUGH DAM. AS IN 1945 ELECTRIC POWER REACHED ITS PRE-WAR LEVEL. VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIERS RETURNING, BEING FETED. VARIOUS VIEWS GIANT FIREWORKS. 00:56:23 - GIANT ELECTRIC TOWER WITH HUGH POWERED LINES. MEN CONSTRUCTING TOWER ON GROUND TO BE LIFTED IN PLACE. 00:56:36 - HELICOPTER LIFTING TOWER SECTION. 00:56:57 - VARIOUS VIEWS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT GIANT CONTROL ROOMS WITH MEN AT CONTROL PANELS. LS VIEWS SEVERAL NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS. SHOT OF REACTOR IN PLANT. PAN VARIOUS NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS. PAN MEN AT WORK IN CONTROL ROOM. 00:58:28 - PAN LENINGRAD TWO MILLION WATT NUCLEAR POWER STATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION. WILL BE ONE OF BIGGEST IN THE WORLD. VARIOUS VIEWS OTHER REGIONAL POWER STATIONS EACH HAVING CAPACITY OF ONE MILLION WATTS. 00:59:32 - GIANT SMOKE STACK AT SHIENSKA POWER PLANT. THIS PLANT IS ONE OF BIGGEST IN WORLD. CU VARIOUS SHOTS GIANT TURBINE, POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SUPPLY POWER TO CITY LIKE KIEV. EXECUTIVES EXAMINE PLANES FOR LARGER UNITS.. 01:01:37 - ABOVE VIEW ZOOM IN WORKERS EXAMINING THE FIRST HYDRO TURBINE WHICH ONLY PRODUCED 400 KILOWATTS. A MUSEUM ITEM. OCEAN LINER PASSES UNDER BRIDGE TO DELIVER THE HUGE TURBINE TO ITS HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION. VARIOUS VIEWS WORLD'S BIGGEST HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT BEING STARTED UP. 01:01:59 - MS BLACK BEAR CUB (?) IN TREE. MCU KITTEN WRAPPED IN TOWEL BEING HELD BY MAN. animal antics. PAN LARGE APARTMENT HOUSE COMPLEX MADE POSSIBLE BY POWER PLANT. MS GROUP WALKING ALONG RIVER WITH ONE PLAYING GUITAR, SINGING. 01:03:07 - MAN CUTS RIBBON FOR SITE OF NEW 6 MILLION WATT HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT NEAR SITE OF LENIN'S EXILE VILLAGE. CROWD APPLAUDS. VARIOUS VIEWS CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY. 01:03:44 - PAN SCENIC VIEW SNOW FALLING IN WOODED AREA COATING TREES AND BUSHES, IN SIBERIA. PAN SIBERIAN POWER STATION. ABOVE VIEW GIANT GENERATORS INSIDE PLANT. BUILT IN 1950S. VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE 4 MILLION WATT STATION AND ITS POWER STACKS. 01:04:38 - CROWD ALONG RIVER BANK WATCH HUGE EXPLOSION FREE WHICH ALLOWS RIVER TO FLOW FREELY INTO BASIN. DUMP TRUCKS DUMP HUGE BOULDERS INTO WATER. CROWD WATCHES AS MAN IS THROWN INTO AIR AND CAUGHT BY OTHER WORKERS AS HE COMES DOWN, DURING HAPPY CELEBRATION OF NEW 4 MILLION PLUS KILOWATTS POWER PLANT. LS HUGE BRIDGE BEING BUILT OVER DAM. 01:05:23 - MS MAN BACK TO CAMERA, SCALES DOWN SIDE OF CLIFF WITH ROPE AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING GEAR. A SKILL WORKERS HAD TO MASTER IN BUILDING PLANT. 01:05:41 - DRAWING OF POWER STATION AND DAM IN REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA. VARIOUS VIEWS POWER STATIONS IN OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS 01:06:11 - WOMAN PICKS CUCUMBERS AND OTHER VEGETABLES IN HOT HOUSE IN WINTER, MADE POSSIBLE BY ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS. MS MAN BACK TO CAMERA, SITS AT HUGE CONTROL BOARD AND WALL PANEL. 01:06:50 - EXCURSION FERRY PASSES THROUGH LOCKS. VARIOUS VIEWS POWER GRIDS, INSIDE CONTROL ROOMS AND PLANTS. 01:08:33 - VARIOUS VIEWS "NORTHERN LIGHT FLOATING POWER STATION (ON FREIGHTER) WHICH WENT INTO USE IN 1970. VARIOUS SHOTS GEO-THERMAL STATION 01:09:00 - CU TIDAL WAVES CRASHING INTO SHORE. LS PAN EXPERIMENTAL TIDAL POWER STATION WHICH WENT INTO OPERATION TO TEST USE OF TIDES FOR POWER. 01:09:32 - RUSSIAN ENGINEERS ON SITE OF ASWAN DAM AND POWER STATION IN EGYPT, LARGEST IN AFRICA. VARIOUS VIEWS ASWAN UNDER CONSTRUCTION. HUGE CROWD NATIVE AFRICANS CHEERING AND SLASHING WATER ON THEMSELVES IN RIVER TO CELEBRATE STATION. 01:10:39 - VOICE OVER "MIR POWER GRID POWERS SEVEN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES INCLUDING RUSSIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, EAST GERMANY, POLAND, HUNGARY, BULGARIA, ROMANIA". PAN CENTRAL LOCATION CONTROL ROOM IN PRAGUE. VARIOUS SHOTS INDUSTRIES, PLANTS INCLUDING AUTO PLANT POWERED BY THE GRIDS. TRAINS SPEEDING THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE, LARGE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS TURNING ON AUTOMATICALLY IN FAR LANDS, COW BEING MILKED VIA AUTOMATION, WOMAN SHEARING WOOL OFF SHEEP WITH POWER SHAVER, DRAWER FULL OF BABY CHICKS BEING PULLED OUT OF INCUBATOR. VARIOUS CONVEYOR BELTS MOVING VARIETY OF FOOD PRODUCTS, ETC. 01:13:02 - HOUSEWIFE OPENS HER REFRIGERATOR, WOMAN COOKS ON ELECTRIC STOVE, SUBWAY TRAIN RIDING ON EL, OPERATING TEAM PERFORMING UNDER LIGHTS. 01:13:52 - SPUTNIK ? LAYING IN FIELD AFTER RETURN FROM SPACE. NEWSPAPER PRESS ROLLING, SPACECRAFT LANDING ON SURFACE OF MOON (SIMULATION AND SPACE ROVER ROLLING ON SURFACE OF PLANET (SIMULATIONS ?) LS KREMLIN. ZOOM IN STATUE LENIN. 01:14:19 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1932
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-1361