- Title: VM-1384
- Summary: IT IS NECESSARY TO DREAM (PT. 2): SOVIET UNION REBUILDS IN AFTERAMATH OF WWIII. YURI GAGARIN FIRST MAN IN SPACE.
- Description:00:00:52 - VARIOUS VIEWS INSIDE BUSTLING STEEL PLANT. HUGE VATS OF MOLTEN STEEL BEING POURED. ELDERLY MEN AND WOMEN TELLING HORROR TALES OF WWII AND THE LOSS OF LOVED ONES. ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-VIETNAM WAR WAR PROPAGANDA IN FRANCE 00:01:21 - MS GROUP MINE WORKERS WEARING FAMILIAR HATS WITH LIGHTS, WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA. CU MINE WORKER SHAKES FROM VIBRATION CAUSED AS HE DRILLS INTO WALL OF MINE. WOMAN MINER POURS LARGE HOPPER OF ORE ONTO PILER. CU LARGE CHUNKS OF (IRON ?) ORE MOVING ON CONVEYOR. HUGE CROWD OF TOWNS PEOPLE CELEBRATING NEW MINE (?) THROW BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS ONTO ORE HOPPERS FROM BOTH SIDES OF TRACKS AS THEY PASS ON TRACKS. MS MINE WORKERS INCLUDING YOUNG WOMAN MINER, ARE SHOWERED WITH FLOWERS AS THEY WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. HUGE BUCKET MOLTEN STEEL BEING POURED AT PLANT. WORKERS WEARING PROTECTIVE GOGGLES SHOVELLING SLAG ALONGSIDE CONVEYOR WITH SMOLDERING ORE. 00:02:26 - TWO WORKERS CHECKING PIPE LINES ALONG RIVER, OIL DERRICKS IN SEA OFF SHORE. 00 02 30 LS CAMEL CARAVAN MOVING ALONG DISTANT HORIZON (RUSSIAN STEPPES). 00:02:30 - LARGE CRANE LIFTS HUGE SECTION OF PREFABRICATED TRAIN TRACK, LAYS IT IN ONTO ROADBED. CU NATIVE WORKER (SIBERIAN ?) WEARING LARGE FURRY HAT, HAMMERS SPIKED INTO RAILS. 00:02:46 - HUGE EXPLOSION PULVERIZES MOUNTAIN OF EARTH AND STONE AT HUGE SITE FOR NEW HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT (?). HUNDREDS WORKERS WITH SHOVELS, ON BOTH SIDES OF OUTDOOR CONVEYOR B AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE, SHOVEL EARTH FROM EXCAVATION ONTO BELT AS IT MOVES THE MATERIAL AWAY AT A RAPID PACE. WELDERS AT WORK WELDING HUGE PIPELINES. VARIOUS VIEWS HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION WORK SITE INCLUDING DAM AND ELECTRIC GRIDS AND TOWERS. 00:03:12 - VARIOUS SHOTS ETHNIC NATIVE MEN WITH BEARDS, (SIBERIA OR RUSSIAN STEPPES ?) WEARING TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC TURBANS, SKULL CAPS, APPLAUDING AS WATER FLOWS TO THE LAND FROM NEW DAMS AND HYDRO ELECTRIC STATIONS. AERIAL PAN HUGE HYDRO ELECTRIC STATION CONSTRUCTION SITE. PAN HUGE CROWD ATTENDING CEREMONIES FOR NEW STATION. 00:04:03 - MONTAGE MS VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS APPLAUD AS HUGE CRANE ROLLS OUT OF FACTORY, FOLLOWED BY ROW OF TRACTORS. TRAIN WITH LONG ROWS OF TRACTORS ON FLAT CAR SPEEDING TOWARDS CAMERA; HUGE COMBINES HARVESTING WHEAT ON FARM. CU GRAIN POURING INTO TRUCK FROM COMBINE. MS WOMEN SHOVELLING GRAIN. VARIOUS VIEWS NEW FARM HOUSE AND SPACIOUS LIVING AREA INSIDE. 00:05:01 - ABOVE PAN INSIDE MODERN DEPARTMENT WITH CENTRAL LOBBY WITH ESCALATOR LEADING UP TO THREE LEVELS CONTAINING DIFFERENT STORES. CROWDS OF WOMEN SHOPPING. MS PAN LADIES SHOES ALL LINED UP ON RACKS. SALESMAN HELPS WOMAN TRY ON SHOES. SALESGIRL BEHIND COUNTER SHOWS DRESS TO CUSTOMER. SALESGIRL SHOWS MATERIAL TO MAN AND WOMAN CUSTOMERS. 00:05:34 - VARIOUS VIEWS WORKERS BUILDING RESIDENTIAL HOMES. PUTTING IN PICTURE WINDOW/ AERIAL PAN VAST RESIDENTIAL HOMES. 00:05:56 - CROWD CUSTOMERS AT BOOK STORE COUNTER. ELDERLY DISTINGUISHED MAN WITH WHITE GOATEE PERUSES BOOK. UNIDENTIFIED AUTHOR SIGN BOOK FOR CUSTOMERS. VARIOUS VIEWS WWII SHOTS UNIDENTIFIED AUTHOR. MS SCULPTOR WORKS ON SMALL STATUE. ZOOM IN FULL SIZE STATUE OF MAN IN TOWN SQUARE. 00:06:30 - MS RUSSIAN SOLDIER ON WAY HOME FROM WAR, PEERING OUT WINDOW OF SPEEDING TRAIN. VARIOUS WWII SCENES RUSSIAN SOLDIERS PULLING HORSE DRIVEN WAGON THROUGH MUDDY ROAD AD HORSE'S HOOFS SLIP AND SLIDE IN THE MUD. CU RUSSIAN SOLDIER SLIPPING AND SLIDING IN MUD, STANDS STILL, BUD SLIDES IN MUDDY ROAD ANYWAY. SOLDIER RESTING IN TRENCH SPOONS SOUP FROM CANTEEN, RUSSIAN SOLDIER WALKING THROUGH WINDING TRENCH SITS TO EAT HIS RATIONS. TWO SOVIET SOLDIERS SITTING AND SPOONING SOUP, BITING INTO RATION. CU PHOTO SOLDIER. 00:07:16 - MS. COLOR SHOT RUSSIAN OLD TIMER TELLING WAR STORIES AS HE AND OTHERS SIT IN GRASS. 00:07:20 - B/W - VARIOUS WWII WAR SCENES BATTLEFIELD EXPLOSIONS. SOVIET INFANTRY CHARGING IN FIELD, THROUGH SMOKE SCREEN, UNDER FIRE. SOLDIERS SEATED OM GROUND SEWING THEIR CLOTHING, OTHERS TAKING BIG PUFFS ON CIGARETTE, THEN PASSING IT AROUND TO OTHER SOLDIERS. MS SEVERAL SOLDIERS SEATED ON GROUND, LIGHTING UP CIGARETTES. 00:07:47 - COLOR - CU PAN FLOWERS ON FLOWERING TREES. B/W - RUSSIAN SOLDIER SEATED ON GROUND SEWING HIS COAT AS VOICE OVER ELDERLY VETERAN TELLS HIS WAR STORIES. PHOTOS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS MENDING CLOTHING. ZOOM IN PHOTO THREE SOVIET OFFICERS, PAN TO ONE. COLOR - CU NOE AN ELDERLY MA, MAN IN PHOTO CONTINUES WITH HIS WAR TALES. MORE OF FLOWERING TREES. 00:10:00 - PAN FLOWERING TREES IN WOODED AREA TO MANSION IN WOODS. CU B/W PHOTO FAMED SOVIET PHYSICIST, SERGEI KUCHEYEV POSING WITH SEVERAL OTHER MEN. 00:10:25 - COLOR - GROUP OF ELDERLY MEN (DIGNITARIES ?) MEETING IN WOODED AREA OUTSIDE (HOME OF SCIENTIST ?). THREE ELDERLY MEN SEATED ON PARK BENCH OUTSIDE MANSION, TELLING STORIES ABOUT SERGFI KUCHEYEV. 00:12:23 - B/W - VARIOUS HOME FILM SHOTS SERGEI KUCHEYEV WALKING SNOW COVERED GROUNDS WITH HIS WIFE AND OTHERS. PAN LARGE GROUP DIGNITARIES POSING WITH SERGEI OUTDOORS. COLOR SHOTS SHOWING LARGE GROUP ELDERLY MEN WATCHING THE OLD FILM IN STUDIO ROOM OF MANSION. OLD FILM, SHOWS SERGEI AND FRIENDS AT SEA SHORE IN THE SURF ENJOYING THE WAVES. SERGEI AT PICNIC TABLE DURING BARBECUE, PASSES OUT FOOD. PHOTO SERGEI WITH HUNTING CLOTHING AND SHOTGUN. 00:13:55 - VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (?). 00:14:10 - VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE RUSSIAN SHIP, ICE BREAKER (?) CRASHING THROUGH SOLID ARCTIC ICE AND ANCHORING IN SOLID ICE AND SNOW AT NORTH POLE (?) CREWMEN , CEREMONIOUSLY CARRYING LARGE RUSSIAN FLAG TO PARTICULAR SPOT ON THE ICE, FIRING RIFLES INTO THE AIR AS IN MILITARY FUNERAL. LARGE CREW, SOME WITH FLORAL BOUQUETS CIRCLE SPOT AND LAY FLOWERS THERE. 00:14:55 - COLOR - SPACE VEHICLE ON LAUNCHING PAD WITH LARGE ROUND SUN BALL ALONGSIDE. CU VARIOUS EARLY PHOTOS OF FUTURE COSMONAUT, SOVIET HERO,, YURI GAGARIN ?. PHOTO GROUP SCIENTISTS (?) POSING WITH SMALL ROCKET. PHOTO GROUP ROCKET SCIENTISTS (?) POSING. 00:15:19 - GROUP YOUNG MEN GENTLY LOWER SMALL ROCKET ON HOME MAD STAND IN BACK YARD AS CHILDREN WATCH. MAN SETS CHARGE, ALL RUN, HIDE BEHIND SMALL CONCRETE BUNKER, KIDS WATCH FROM TREETOP. AS ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY BLASTS OFF. SCENE CHANGES TO COLOR SHOT OF SOVIET ROCKET LAUNCH WITH YURI GAGARIN ABOARD (4/12/61), FIRST MAN IN SPACE. CU BLURRY FILM SHOWS GAGARIN IN SPACECRAFT (VOSTOK 1). LS SKY LIGHTS UP WITH FIREWORKS AS RUSSIANS CELEBRATE. RUSSIAN LEADER BRESHNEV HUGS AND KISSES GAGARIN AFTER AWARDING HIM MEDAL. GAGARIN BECOMES NATIONAL HERO, GOES ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOUR, IS MET BY HUGE CROWDS EVERYWHERE HE TRAVELS. ABOVE VIEW CROW IN RED SQUARE CHEERING AND WAVING TO THEIR HERO. 00:16:50 - YURI MOTORCADE WITH HIM STANDING IN OPEN LIMO IS SHOWERED WITH FLOWERS BY THE THOUSANDS OF IDOLIZING PEOPLE. MS HUGS AND KISSES FROM WOMEN. 00:17:20 - YURI ARRIVES IN FOREIGN COUNTRY IS MET AT AIRPORT BY THOUSANDS IN POURING RAIN. CROWD IN FOREIGN COUNTRY (EGYPT?) LINE STREETS IN ANKLE DEEP WATER TO CHEER MOTORCADE DURING RAIN. TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:17:36 - MOTORCADE SURROUNDED BY MOTORCYCLE POLICE RIDES BY GREAT PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT. ARABS ON CAMELS WAVE AS THEY GALLOP ALONGSIDE MOTORCADE. ,D YURI IS MOBBED BY ADORING CROWD. MORE OF SAME. 00:18:35 - GROUP OF MEN ROLL OUT HUGE MISSILE FROM GARAGE, STAND IT UP INTO FIRING POSITION AS MAN ON LADDER WORKS ON NOSE CONE. (LOOKS LIKE GERMANY'S V-2 BALLISTIC MISSILE (?). 00:19:30 - MS RUSSIAN SOLDIER WITH EARPHONES SITS AT CONTROLS, READY TO FIRE MISSILE. LS MISSILES STANDING OM END FIRES, RISES SLOWLY SKYWARD. VARIOUS SHOTS NEWER AND LARGER ROCKETS BEING FIRED AS SOVIET SPACE AND MISSILE PROGRESS EXPANDS. 00:20:56 - ZOOM AWAY PHOTO LEONID BREZHNEV WITH HAND ON CHIN. 00:21:10 - HUGE LAUNCHING TOWER STANDS ALONGSIDE HUGE ROCKET ON PAD. LS CONCRETE BUNKER AT SITE. SOVIET WORKERS WITH GOGGLES READY TO FIRE ROCKET FROM INSIDE PILLBOX, PEER OUT NARROW SLITS TO ROCKET ON PAD. PUSHES BUTTON, HUGE SMOKE CLOUD AS ROCKETS FIRE, ROCKET LIFTS OFF. MEN ON TOWER WATCH LAUNCH FROM SAFE DISTANCE. MORE OF ROCKET FIRINGS. 00:21:40 - B/W CU SOVIET DIGNITARY, ROCKET SCIENTIST (?) SPEAKING AT MEETING. SOLDIER IN CONTROL ROOM TURNS SWITCH SETTING OFF ROCKET LAUNCE. LS ROCKET BLASTING OFF. SOLDIER PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE IN BUNKER, TO WATCH BLAST OFF. VARIOUS OLD FILM, SHOTS RUSSIAN ROCKET PIONEERS (?). 00:22:20 - B/W SOVIET COSMONAUT DOING SPACE WALK, POC SPACE CRAFT. COLOR SHOT SPACE CRAFT LAUNCH, SOVIET SPACE LEADER (?). LEADER KISSES AND SHAKES HANDS WITH COSMONAUT IN SPACE GEAR, BACK TO CAMERA, BEFORE COSMONAUT CLIMBS STAIRS OF LAUNCH PAD TO SPACE CAPSULE. 00:23:04 - VARIOUS SHOTS CROWD GATHERS AROUND TWO COSMONAUT IN SPACE GEAR SAVE THEIR HEAD GEAR, (FOLLOWING THEIR RETURN FROM OUTER SPACE (?), SEATED IN CHAIRS IN OPEN FIELD, AS THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED AND INTERVIEWED BY NEWSMEN AND OTHERS. MS ELEVATOR WITH ASTRONAUTS RISING UP LAUNCH PAD TO CAPSULE. TILT DOWN STEAMING ROCKET, THEN BLAST OFF. GREAT SHOT ROCKET RISING OFF PAD AND IN FLIGHT. 00:24:03 - B/W RUGGED RUSSIAN SOLDIER PEERING OUT SPEEDING TRAIN. CROWD CHEERING WOMEN WITH BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS AT STATION, POV SOLDIER LOOKING OUT SIDE DOOR. CROWD THROWS FLOWERS AT TRAIN AS IT ROLLS INTO STATION. VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIERS BEING MET BY, HUGGED AND KISSED AT WIVES, FAMILY MEMBERS, WOMEN CRYING, TOUCHING SCENES HAPPY FAMILIES GREETING THEIR MEN AT END OF WWII. CIRCA 1940S 00:24:30 - COLOR CIRCA 1980S (?), CU VARIOUS SHOTS ELDERLY SAD FACED WOMEN WITH HEAD SCARVES GRIEVING AT SITE OF GRAVE SITE OF LOVED ONES (SONS, HUSBANDS) WHO DIED IN WWII. 00:25:15 - COLOR - MS WOMAN SEATED SADLY TALKING ABOUT WWII DAYS, B/W PHOTOS OF HER AND FAMILY MEMBERS INCLUDING BROTHERS OR HUSBANDS IN UNIFORM (WHO NEVER RETURNED FROM WAR ? CU PHOTOS. 00:26:02 - VARIOUS SHOTS MONUMENT TO RUSSIAN UNKNOWN SOLDIERS WITH PERPETUAL FLAME. ZOOM IN CU BLACK MARBLE MONUMENT WITH LONG ROWS OF NUMBERS EACH OFWHICH REPRESENTS FALLEN SOLDIER, BACK TO MS WOMAN SPEAKING OF HER LOSSES DURING WWII. AS SHE SITS AT TABLE. ZOOM IN PERPETUAL FLAME. VARIOUS SHOTS GROUP ELDERLY WOMEN STANDING AT TOMB. CU GREAT SHOT SAD FACED ELDERLY WOMAN WEARING HEAD SCARF (BABUSHKA). MS INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT. PAN NUMBERS ON MONUMENT WITH MANY FLOWERS. 00:28:59 - VARIOUS TALKING HEADS ELDERLY MEN, WOMEN TELLING WAR STORIES, WIPING TEARS. 00:30:11 - CU HEADLINES IN BRITISH NEWSPAPER "MORNING STAR" DATED JANUARY 11, 1960. HEADLINE MARGARET THATCHER'S INHUMAN WAR CALL (VIETNAM ?) AERIAL VIEW U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER AT SEA. UNDERWATER SHOT BALLISTIC MISSILE BEING FIRED FROM SUBMARINE BREAKS WATER, HEADS SKYWARD. COLOR CU PAN SAD FACED ELDERLY RUSSIAN WOMEN AT GRAVE SITE. 00:31:00 - VARIOUS WWII SCENES DESTROYED CATHEDRAL AND RUINS OF LARGE AND SMALL BUILDINGS. 00:31:36 - COLOR - CU ELDERLY MAN AT SITE OF RUINS OF LARGE CATHEDRAL LIKE BUILDING NOW UNDER REPAIRS RELATED HIS MEMORY OF WWII (?) ABOVE VIEW OF REMAINS OF CATHEDRAL WITH ONLY THE OUTER WALLS STANDING AND PEOPLE TOURING INSIDE THE WALLS. MS PAN OLD CATHEDRAL MOSTLY RESTORED TO ITS OLD MAGNIFICENCE. B/W VOEW OF RUINS, MAN STANDING AMID RUINS SPEAKING TO CAMERA. CU OLD SEWING MACHINE AMID RUINS. MORE RUINS. 00:33:11 - AERIAL VIEW TWO BOYS RUNNING AND PLAYING ON HIGHWAY AND IN STREETS OF TOWN. 00:33:16 - MS PAN SEVERAL ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-WAR (VIETNAM) POSTERS IN FRANCE, ONE DEPICTS AMERICA AS GIANT OCTOPUS. CU FACE OF TEARING VIETNAMESE CHILD. VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG ANTI-WAR STUDENTS DISCUSSING WAR (?). 00:33:53 - VARIOUS VIEWS THOUSANDS PEOPLE, MOSTLY STUDENTS AT HUGE PEACE RALLY WITH BANNERS AND ANTI-WAR SIGNS IN FRENCH. YOUNG ACTIVIST LEADER (?) ON PLATFORM SPEAKING AND WAVING TO CROWD. VARIOUS SHOTS THOUSANDS YOUNG PEOPLE LISTENING TO SPEAKER. . 00:35:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS CROWDS YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDING FAIR WITH TENTS CONTAINING "URSS" (SOVIET UNION) ON THEM. KID WITH BALLOON RIDES ON SHOULDER OF YOUNG DAD AS HE WALKS THROUGH FAIR GROUNDS. YOUNG WOMEN, ONE WALKING HAND IN HAND WITH LITTLE NOY WITH BALLOON CLIMB LONG FLIGHT OF STEPS TO LARGE CATHEDRAL AT TOP. WITH (FRANCE ?) LS ANCIENT CATHEDRAL IN BUSY SQUARE, PAN TO BUST AVENUE WITH TRAFFIC. ANCIENT= POINTED DOME BUILDING IN HEART OF BUSY CITY. YOUNG COUPLE, SHE WITH CHILD IN ARMS, HE WITH BEARD, GLASSES, WALK THROUGH FAIR. VENDOR'S UMBRELLAS IN B/G. 00:36:14 - YOUNG FEMALE STUDENT IS INTERVIEWED BY NEWSMAN WITH MICROPHONE. MS NEWSMAN WITH MIC WEARS PLAID CAP AS HE INTERVIEWS. CU WOMAN ANSWERING QUESTIONS. LARGE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING IN B/G. SHIRTLESS, TANNED CHUBBY BLOND WORKER LAYING STONE AT CONSTRUCTION DITE IS INTERVIEWED, ANSWERS HAPPILY. MAN WITH SPORTY FEDORA, SEATED IN BEACH IN PARK, CHAIR ANSWERS QUESTIONS. MAN GETS ANIMATED AS HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON BUSY PAN TO WOMAN AND CHILD WITH HIM. MS STREET CORNER. 00:37:28 - VARIOUS MCU SHOTS ARTISTS PAINTING ON CANVAS OUTDOORS. ELDERLY WOMAN ARTIST PAINTING, PAUSES TO SPEAK TO INTERVIEWER WITH MIC. OTHER ARTISTS PAINTING IN B/G. 00:37:47 - MS QUICK SHOT GREY HAIRED MAN (BEGGAR ?) WITH NO LEGS SITS ON WHEELS AGAINST WALL OF BUILDING ON BUST CORNER. oddity. CU MORE OF INDIVIDUALS BEING INTERVIEWED. GREY HAIRED MAN. YOUNG COUPLE, HE PUSHING CARRIAGE WITH CHILD SHE ALONG SIDE, MOVE ON. MAN WITH BABY IN ARMS BEING INTERVIEWED. THIN ELDERLY MAN BEING INTERVIEWED. HANDICAPPED MAN WITH CRUTCHES BEING INTERVIEWED. TEEN-AGERS BEING INTERVIEWED... 00:39:20 - ABOVE PAN MEETING OF SOVIET REPUBLIC DELEGATES IN HUGE MODERN KREMLIN AUDITORIUM. SOVIET LEADER LEONID BREZHNEV HOLDING UP UNIDENTIFIED MAN'S HAND AS GALLERY APPLAUDS. 00:39:48 - UNIDENTIFIED DIGNITARY AND HIS WIFE IS MET AT AIRPORT BY CROWD WITH BANNERS. SAME LEADER IS MET BY BREZHNEV IN KREMLIN, HUGS AND KISSES THE DIGNITARY, THEN POSES. 00:40:08 - AERIAL PAN KREMLIN AND ITS LANDMARK BUILDINGS AND WALL. ZOOM IN COMMUNIST FLAG ATOP BUILDING. ABOVE PAN AUDITORIUM CROWDED WITH DELEGATES FOR MEETING OF CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST PARTY. 00:40:49 - MS LEONID BREZHNEV ADDRESSING THE CONGRESS FROM PODIUM. PAN HUGE AUDITORIUM AND ALL STANDING APPLAUDING BREZHNEV. 00:41:13 - B/W AND COLOR MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS RUSSIAN MEN AT WORK IN STEEL PLANT. WORKERS ON ELECTRIC TOWER, MAN WELDING INSIDE HUGE STEEL PIPE. WOMEN GRABBING SHOVELS TO WORK AT WWII CITY BUILDING RUINS, CLEANING , DIGGING UP. ABOVE VIEW MEN, WOMEN WORKING AT RUINS SITES. COLOR SHOTS CONTRAST THE OLD AND THE NEW. SHOWING CITIES AND HIGHWAYS, FARMS BEING HARVESTED. NEW HYDRO-ELECTRIC, STEEL PLANTS. 00:43:00 - AERIAL PAN MOSCOW, KREMLIN. 00:43:51 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-1384