- Title: VM-1377
- Summary: FULFILLING LENIN'S BEHEST (PT.2): THIS FILM TELLS HOW LENIN'S FIRST DECREES, THE DECREES OF PEACE AND LAND, AND HIS GREAT PLAN FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY WERE CARRIED OUT. IT ALSO TELLS OF THE LOFTY PATRIOTISM WHICH LENIN HAS FOSTERED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION. IRRIGATION CANALS ARE BUILT IN BARREN RUSSIAN STEPPE OF UZBEKISTAN AND KAZAKHSTAN AND CHUKCHI PENINSULA IN SIBERIA, TURNING IT INTO HUGE PRODUCTIVE FARM LANDS.
- Description:00:00:41 - MS NATIVE KAZAKISTAN FARMERS, LED BY DISTRICT LEADER, ALL WEARING MUSLIM SKULL CAPS WORK ON TRACTOR ENGINE AS OTHERS WATCH HOW IT'S DONE. ,EADER EXAMINES DEPOT WITH MANY LARGE FARM MACHINES, INCLUDING TRACTORS AND COMBINES. MS FARM MACHINES ALL LINED UP AT OUTDOOR DEPOT. MS PAN HUGE WHEAT FIELD WITH CROP GENTLY BLOWING IN WIND. "THE LABOR OF SOVIET PEOPLE HAVE TRANSFORMED THE HUNGRY STEPPE (GOLODNAYA STEPPE IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA)". 00:01:21 - CU HANDS BREAKING BREAD, AND CUTTING MELON IN SLICES, CLEANING SEEDS FROM SLICES WITH KNIFER. CU HAND FILLING BOWL WITH NECTAR, PUTTING SOME IN EACH CUP OF TEA. 6 MUSLIM FARMERS SIT IN CIRCLE ON RUG, HAVING CUP OF TEA, CHATTING. CU LEADER SIPS TEA. FARM RICH WITH CROP IN B/G. 00:01:57 - MS LARGE COMBINE SLOWLY HARVESTING COTTON FROM COTTON FIELD, TOWARDS CAMERA. CU PAN LUSCIOUS PEACHES AND OTHER FRUIT ON VINES IN THE FERTILE HUNGRY STEPPE. MS YOUNG FEMALE PICKING FRUIT CROP FROM VINES. DAD AND YOUNG SON, EACH WEARING ISLAMIC SKULL CAPS, STAND AMID FLOWERS IN FIELD THICK WITH FLOWERING CROP. 00:02:23 - WATER FLOWING THROUGH LONG IRRIGATION CANALS AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE, FRUIT DANGLING FROM TREE IN F/G. AERIAL VIEW OF IRRIGATION CANAL RUNNING IN CENTER OF NEAT FARMLAND ON EACH SIDE. 00:02:33 - AERIAL PAN "SAMPLES OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE" (MOSTLY DOMED ISLAMIC MOSQUES. VARIOUS CU SHOTS "MASTER WORKS OF WORLD ARCHITECTURE". CU WALL DESIGNS AND CARVINGS ON CENTURIES OLD MOSQUES. DOMED ROOF O MOSQUE CONTAINING INTRICATE DESIGNS. MS TWO WOMEN WALKING WITH THEIR HEADS DRAPED IN TRADITIONAL BLACK ROBES COMPLETELY COVERING THEIR FACES, FIND IT HARD TO BREAK WITH OPPRESSED TIMES OF THE PAST. MCU IN CONTRAST, TWO YOUNG GIRLS WEARING SIMPLE COLORFUL CAPS, MODERN DRESSES. 00:03:46 - LS ABOVE VIEW KREMLIN, WITH LANDMARK BUILDINGS IN B/G, MOSCOW RIVER WITH HYDROFOIL FERRY SPEEDING BY IN F/G. 00:03:58 - "IN A FAMILY UNITED" - "WE WANT A VOLUNTARY ALLIANCE OF NATIONS, AN ALLIANCE WHICH WOULD PRECLUDE ANY ACT OF VIOLENCE BY ONE NATION AGAINST THE OTHER .........". - LENIN. 00:04:37 - CU FEMALE MEMBER OF PRESIDIUM OF USSR SUPREME SOVIET, A CHUKCHI NATIVE (ESKIMO) BORN IN CHUTOTKA, (CHUKCHI PENINSULA (SIBERIA), NORTHERN EXTREMITY OF SOVIET ASIA) SPEAKS OF HOW HER PEOPLE MOVED DIRECTLY TO THE PRIMITIVE COMMUNAL SYSTEM TO SOCIALISM. AERIAL PAN SNOW COVERED HILLS, AND SHORES WHICH LIE BETWEEN TWO OCEANS. THE PACIFIC AND THE ARCTIC. "CHUKOTKA, 14000 METERS FROM MOSCOW". ARCTIC WAVES ROLLING INTO SHORE, PAN TO HERD OF HUGE WALRUS HUDDLED TOGETHER ON SHORE. TWO WALRUS BATTLE WITH TUSKS. THOUSANDS BIRDS TAKE FLIGHT ALONG JAGGED CLIFFS OF CHUKOTKA. HERD WALRUS CRAWL INTO ROUGH SEA EN MASSE. 00:06:01 - MS NATIVE CHUKCHI (ESKIMO) HERDER TENDS TO REINDEER HERD. PAN HUGE HERD RESTING ALONG GROUND, GRAZING THROUGH THIN LAYER OF SNOW. "CHUKOTKA WEALTH IS HER REINDEER HERDS". VARIOUS SHOTS ESKIMO DEER BREEDERS, WEARING ANIMAL FURS SIT ON GROUND IN TUNDRA, SIP TEA, SMALL SHACK AND TRUCK IN B/G, AS HERD LAYS AROUND IN SNOW. "NATIVES ARE NO LONGER NOMADS OF THE PAST". 00:06:27 - GROUP ESKIMOS AND CHILD WAIT AS HELICOPTER LANDS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DIRECTLY TO DEER BREEDERS IN THE TUNDRA. CU HARDENED FACE OF ELDERLY ESKIMO. DOCTOR WITH WHITE COAT, PROVIDES INJECTIONS TO YOUNG ESKIMO ALONGSIDE HELICOPTER. 00:07:10 - CU NURSE EXAMINES BARE CHESTED CHILD WITH STETHOSCOPE IN CLINIC. VARIOUS SHOTS LITTLE ESKIMO AND CHUKCHI CHILDREN DO TRADITIONAL ESKIMO TRIBAL DANCE IN DANCE CLASS. folk dance, ethnic dance. 00:07:42 - VARIOUS SHOTS ANNA NUTRETEGRI. (?), FEMALE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET CHUKCHI AREA HAVING MEETING WITH ITHER AREA LEADERS. HE ADMINISTERS A VAST AREA THE SIZE OF HALF OF EUROPE. VARIOUS SHOTS ANNA SAYING GOODBYE TO NATIVE ESKIMOS AT AIRSTRIP, WHERE SHE BOARDS BI-WING PASSENGER PLANE. MS FACE SHOTS SMILING YOUNG ESKIMO GIRL , HARDENED FACE OF ELDERLY HERDER WITH CIGARETTE IN MOUTH. REINDEER IN F/G. ANNA, IN FLIGHT, SITS BY PLANE WINDOW, TAKES NOTES, SPEAKS TO ASSOCIATE. MALE PILOT WITH UNIFORM HAT, AT THE CONTROLS OF THE SMALL PLANE. AERIAL VIEW OF TUNDRA. 00:08:48 - VARIOUS SHOTS CONSTRUCTION SITES OF MODERN SETTLEMENTS SPRINGING UP IN TUNDRA. CU WORKERS WARM HANDS IN CAMP FIRE. LARGE FLATBED TRUCK, WITH LOAD OF LUMBER, RIDING THROUGH SNOWBOUND, BARREN HILL COUNTRY. CU FACE SHOT DRIVER. 00:09:30 - AERIAL SITE OF MINE IN CHUKOTKA, ONE OF MOST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES IN THE COUNTRY. VARIOUS SHOTS MINERS AT WORK RIDING MECHANIZED HOPPERS IN RAILS CARING ORE OUT OF MINE. VARIOUS FACE SHOTS HARDY MINERS, MOSTLY WESTERN NATIONALITIES. MS MINER DRILLING HOLE IN MINE WALL. VARIOUS SHOTS MINERS AT MACHINES CRUSHING ROCK IN MINE. 00:11:00 - ABOVE PAN SETTLEMENT IN TUNDRA. NATIVE CHUKCHI BOYS AND GIRLS IN CLASSROOM. BEING TAUGHT BY YOUNG FEMALE CHUKCHI TEACHER. MS MALE NATIVE CHUKCHI SHOP TEACHER SHOWS YOUNG MALE STUDENT ANCIENT ART OF BONE CARVING. MS FEMALE STUDENT CARVING SMALL FIGURES OUT OF BONE. MS VARIOUS BONE CARVINGS INCLUDE, THREE ESKIMOS PULLING IN LARGE WALRUS; ESKIMO WITH REINDEER; ESKIMO HERDERS ROPING REINDEER.. education, tradition, native art, culture. 00:12:34 - VARIOUS SHOTS CHUKCHI NEWSPAPER PRESS ROOM, PRINTING PRESSES AT WORK. "CHUKCHI PEOPLE WHO HAD NO WRITTEN LANGUAGE BEFORE REVOLUTION, NOW HAVE THEIR OWN NEWSPAPER". VARIOUS SHOTS CHUKCHI LIBRARY, PEOPLE PERUSING BOOKS. 00:13:00 - PAN STACKED LIBRARY SHELVES TO YOUNG TALENTED MALE CHUKCHI AUTHOR TYPING ABOUT MODERN CHUKOTKA, AT HIS DESK IN STUDY. CU AUTHOR PROOF READING HIS MANUSCRIPT. PAN SOME OF HIS WORKS. literature. 00:13:45 - YOUNG BOY AND GIRL, BACKS RO CAMERA, WATCHING TV IN LIVING ROOM. CU TV PROGRAM SHOWING NATIVE ESKIMO DANCE ENSEMBLE DOING SYMBOLIC NATIVE TRIBAL DANCE, ABOUT ESKIMO HUNTER. VOICE OVER DESCRIBES THE DANCE AND THE SYMBOLISM. STUDIO TECHNICIANS AT WORK IN CONTROL ROOM. CU MALE NATIVE DANCER (WHICH DOCTOR OF TRIBE) IS JOINED BY FEMALE ENSEMBLE, ALL WEARING NATIVE ESKIMO COSTUMES. BARE CHESTED "WITCH DOCTOR", DANCES WITH SWORD AND TAMBOURINE-LIKE DRUM. traditional native dance, symbolism. ELDERS CAST AWAY WITCH DOCTOR, FEMALE ENSEMBLE SING TRIBAL SONG. AS ROLLING TV CAMERA MOVES IN FOR CLOSE UP. 00:15:58 - LONE YOUNG SOVIET SOLDIER WITH RIFLE WALKS IN SNOW TOWARDS CAMERA, CU FACE SHOT ANOTHER SOLDIER (ORIENTAL FEATURES). MLS HUGE PEACEFUL EXPLOSION IN TUNDRA, INAUGURATES START OF NEW ATOMIC POWER STATION IN CHUKOTKA, "LENIN'S DREAM OF ELECTRIFICATION OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY". PAN WORK SITE AND APARTMENT HOUSES IN B/G 00:16:35 - ANOTHER QUOTE BY LENIN: "ONLY WHEN THE LAND IS FULLY ELECTRIFIED................." "ONLY THEN SHALL WE BE TRULY VICTOROUS". VARIOUS SHOTS LENIN'S STUDY IN MOSCOW. WITH DESK FULL OF 1930S ARTIFACTS. PHOTO OF LENING AT HIS DESK. 00:17:35 - VARIOUS SHOTS BOLSHOI THEATER BUILDING IN ,MOSCOW WHERE IN 1920 THE 8TH CONGRESS OF SOVIETS, ADOPTED LENIN'S PLAN FOR THE ELECTRIFICATION OF RUSSIA. THE FAMOUS "GOELRO PLAN" CU BOOL CONTAINING GOELRO PLAN. 00:18:00 - MS CONSTANTINE UGAROV WHO WAS A DELEGATE TO THIS HISTORIC PLAN, SPEAKS ABOUT IT. VARIOUS PHOTOS OF RUSSIA WHEN RUSSIA WAS 100 YEARS BEHIND IN DEVELOPMENT. PHOTO ON WALL OF KOCHERO (?) MUSEUM OF LENIN AND WIFE AMID CROWD OF VILLAGERS AT COMMISSIONING OF SMALL RURAL HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION. FACE SHOTS VILLAGE CHILDREN AS OLD TIMER RELATES THE TALE. 00:19:50 - VARIOUS VIEWS CRANES, MEN AT WORK AT ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION. MEN AT WORK POURING CEMENT, WELDING. VARIOUS SHOTS ANDRE BODYSKIN (?), ENGINEER, WHO TOOK PART IN BUILDING MANY HUGE POWER STATIONS, PERUSES PLANS ON HIS DESK WITH OTHERS. HE STARTED AS AN ASSEMBLER, IS NOW VETERAN ENGINEER. VARIOUS VIEWS ANDRE AT BASE OF DAM WITH YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. 00:21:34 - TEAM YOUNG FEMALE SURVEYORS TREK THROUGH SNOW BOUND TERRAIN WITH SURVEYING EQUIPMENT. MCU YOUNG FEMALE HOLDS POLE AS FEMALE SURVEYOR PEERS THROUGH TRANSIT, MAKES MOTES. LS EXPLOSION IN SNOW. gender roles. 00:22:55 - LS CROWD WATCHES FROM BRIDGE AND SHORE AS DUMP TRUCKS AND EXPLOSIONS ARE USED TO BLOCK THE YITI SEA. MA LARGE DUMP TRUCK DROPS HUGE ROCKS INTO SEA TO BLOCK IT FOR DAM. YITI SEA. CU ENGINEER BODYSKIN WATCHES FROM BRIDGE WITH CROWD. VARIOUS SHOTS FREIGHTERS CARRYING EQUIPMENT TO CONSTRUCTION SITE PASS THROUGH DAM LOCKS. 00:22:56 - WORKER WITH CIGARETTE DANGLING FROM LIPS WATCHES HUGE TURBINE BEING SLOWLY LOWERED IN PLACE IN PLANT, BY OTHER WORKERS MS SPARKS FLY AS WORKER USES HAND-HELD GRINDER. WORKERS ON ELECTRICAL TOWER. PAN WIRES GOING FROM TOWER TO TOWER. 00:24:10 - PAN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN SETTLEMENT WHICH SPRANG UP AS RESULT OF POWER STATION. GROUP YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS, ONE STRUMMING GUITAR, WALK ALONG RIVER BANK. CU GUITAR PLAYER SEATED, STRUMMING HIS GUITAR. BODYSKIN WATCHES AND OTHERS WATCH. 00:25:19 - PAN PICTURESQUE RIVER FLOWING BETWEEN PLUSH GREEN HILLS TO ENGINEER ANDRE BODYSKIN PUFFING ON CIGARETTE AS HE PLOTS ANOTHER GIGANTIC HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION HERE. PAN RIVER AND HILLS. 00:25:56 - VARIOUS SHOTS MALE, FEMALE GROUP ENGINEERS CARRYING SURVEYOR EQUIPMENT MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH THICK FORREST. ABOVE PAN VALLEY AND RIVER BELOW POV GROUP. 00:26:42 - CU POWER SHOVEL SCOOPS UP BUCKET OF DIRT, POURS IT INTO WAITING DUMP TRUCK AS CONSTRUCTION BEGINS. "WHEN COMPLETED, THIS STATION WILL HAVE A CAPACITY OF 6 MILLION KILOWATTS. CU POWER SHOVEL OPERATOR AT HIS CONTROLS. MS HUGE POWER DRILL DRILLS HOLE IN MOUNTAIN SIDE. LS GIANT CRANE AT WORK. 00:27:21 - MS PAN ICE AND SNOW COATED BRANCHES ON TREES MAKES FOR SCENIC VIEW. LS PAN VILLAGE IN SIBERIAN EXPANSES WHERE LENIN WAS EXILED IN SPRING OF 1987, HERE POWER STATIONS WILL BE BUILT. 00:27:55 - MS LOG CABIN TYPE HOME WHERE LENIN LIVED DURING EXILE ZOOM IN PLAQUE ON OUTSIDE WALL. VARIOUS VIEWS INSIDE HOPISE AND LENIN LIVING ROOM, BED, BOOK SHELVES, ETC. CU PAGE IN LENIN BOOK WHERE HE REFERRED TO ATOMIC ENERGY. PAN VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE PROTON-SYNCRO-TRON WITH A CAPACITY OF 76,000 MILLION ELECTRON VOLTS. TWICE AS POWERFUL AS THOSE IN OTHER COUNTRIES. VARIOUS SHOTS TWO MEN IN WHITE LAB COATS SEATED AT CONTROL PANEL, ONE WATCHING WAVES ON OSCILLOSCOPE. OTHERS WORKING IN ROOM FULL OF HANGING WIRES. INSTRUMENTS TO PROBE DEEPER INTO ATOM ARE MADE HERE. SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS WORK TOGETHER. FACE SHOTS YOUNG STUDENTS SEATED AT DESK WITH SCIENTIST. 00:30:50 - YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN SEATED AROUND CAMPFIRE BY LAKE, PAIL ON TOP OF FIRE. 00:30:57 - MAN IN WHITE CLOTHING, CAP, WALKING DOWN LONG TUNNEL TOWARDS AT ATOMIC PLANT, TOWARDS CAMERA MEN IN LOCKER ROOM PUTTING ON WHITE OUTFITS, CHECK THEMSELVES OUT IN MIRROR BEFORE GOING TO WORK. VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS INSIDE ATOMIC STATIONS, VIEWING HEAVY EQUIPMENT FROM ABOVE PAN MASSIVE CONTROL PANEL. 00:31:52 - LARGE GROUP SCIENTISTS IN BUSINESS SUITS HAVING MEETING. 00:33:20 - LENIN QUOTE: "ALL OUR POLITICS AND PROPAGANDA ARE DIRECTED TO PUTTING AN END TO WAR, AND IN NO WAY DRIVING THE NATIONS TO WAR". VARIOUS OLD PAINTINGS OF PEASANTS READING BULLETIN BOARDS. CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "PEACE TO THE NATION". 00:33:54 - PAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN LENINGRAD, "THE CRADLE OF THE REVOLUTION" (NOW RE-NAMED ST. PETERSBURG), WITH LANDMARK "BRONZE HORSEMAN" DEDICATED TO PETER THE GREAT. VARIOUS LANDMARK BUILDINGS AND STREET SCENES IN LENINGRAD. MODERN, WELL-DRESSED , PEOPLE AT MAGAZINE STANDS. MAN TAKING PHOTOS (TOURIST ?). GROUP YOUNG ADULTS SEATED ON PARK BENCH, LITTLE CHILD WITH PACIFIER IN STROLLER , PACIFIER IN MOUTH LOOKS AT CAMERA AS SHE IS ROLLED BY. PAN TO OLD WWII SIGN ON WALL WITH FLOWERS, "CITIZENS, DURING ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT, THIS SIDE OF STREET IS MORE DANGEROUS". VARIOUS PHOTOS SIEGE OF LENINGRAD WWII WAR SCENES, RUINS, HUNGER.(900 DAYS OF BOMBARDMENT. 00:36:09 - MONTAGE FILM OF WWII BATTLE SCENES. TANK WARS, SCREAMING HORDES RUSSIAN TROOPS CHARGING. ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS, TURNING INTO VICTORY FIREWORKS. 00:36:50 - CU OLD WRINKLE FACED WOMAN WITH HEAD SCARF, LOOKING SKYWARD. CU ETERNAL FLAME AT GRAVE OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER. PAN LENINGRAD GRAVE YARD FOR 632,000 DEFENDERS OF LENINGRAD ARE BURIED HERE. LONG LINES PEOPLE VISITING GRAVE SITE. LARGE STATUE WOMAN HOLDING FLOWERS. TWO WOMEN, BACKS TO CAMERA, READING WORDS ON WALL MONUMENT, PAN TO SYMBOLIC STATUARY. CU FACE SHOTS YOUNG PEOPLE SADLY WATCHING. MAN WIPING TEARS, MAN WITH WAR RIBBONS ON CHEST. 00:39:00 - BUSY STREET SCENE IN LENINGRAD BUSINESS DISTRICT, CROWDS PEDESTRIANS. HARBOR WITH SHIPS, WOMAN SEATED ON PARK BENCH READING BOOK, WOMAN WALKING WITH FLORAL BOUQUET, CHILD IN STROLLER WITH PACIFIER IN MOUTH. MEN AT WORK IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES. 00:39:37 - PAN HUGE RALLY IN MOSCOW RED SQUARE, PARADES, BANNERS, FLAGS. VOICE OVER LEADER ADDRESSING THRONG OVER LOUDSPEAKERS. CROWD ROAR. CHILDREN BEING CARRIED ON SHOULDERS BY DADS. 00:40:48 - SOVIET LEADERS ON BALCONY ABOVE LENIN;S MAUSOLEUM AT BASE OF KREMLIN WALL. 00:41:18 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1980
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1377