- Title: VM-1386A
- Summary: FROM CONGRESS TO CONGRESS (PT.2): MODERN RUSSIA PROPAGANDA FILM SHOWS RESULTS OF LENIN;S FIVE YEAR PLANS. SOVIET LIFE STYLES CHANGING FOR THE BETTER. AFFLUENCE, EDUCATION.
- Description:02:41:31 - MS PAN SIGN WITH DATE "1967", TO ANOTHER SIGN WITH NAME OF CITY ON THE VOLGA RIVER "TOGLIATI", (NAMED AFTER ITALIAN COMMUNIST LEADER). ABOVE PAN OF CITY. "VOICE OVER, "TOGLIATI, A TOWN OF AUTO WORKERS ON BANKS OF THE VOLVA (RIVER). PAN HUGE CLUSTER OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS, SOME UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALONG WITH GIANT AUTOMOBILE FACTORY. 02:41:39 - MS WORKERS ON MULTISTORY BUILDING WASHING WINDOWS, POV INSIDE APARTMENT LOOKING OUT. CU YOUNG FEMALE WASHING WINDOW. "NOW FACTORY WORKERS LIVE IN THESE HOUSES (APARTMENTS)". VIEWS FAMILY OF THREE INSIDE MODERN APARTMENT. MOM PUTTING SOCKS ON SON AS HE SITS ON BED; DAD DAD IN KITCHEN. 02:41:59 - MEN, WOMEN WITH CHEFS HAT TAKE FOOD OFF CONVEYOR, PLACE IT ON RACKS, ROLL THEM OUT TO LUNCHROOMS WHICH ACCOMMODATE 30,000 PEOPLE AT A TIME. LS PAN HUGE LUNCHROOM WITH CROWDS SEATED AT TABLES, WAITERS, WAITRESSES SERVING THEM. PAN ROWS MULTI WINDOWED, MULTI STORIED APARTMENT HOUSES WHICH WERE BUILT IN "JUST 4 YEARS". 02:42:20 - MS FIRST HOUSE TO BE BUILT AFTER THE REVOLUTION (1923) 1923 FILM SHOWING CROWD, BAND, MARCHING IN CELEBRATION. CROWD SPECTATORS WITH MAN HOLDING LITTLE GIRL IN ARMS. PAN MORE SHOTS FIRST APARTMENT HOUSE, CIRCA 1923. 02:42:49 - VARIOUS VIEWS HOUSE BUILDING FACTORY, WITH LARGE PREFABRICATED SECTION WITH WINDOWS BEING MOVED BY OVERHEAD CRANE. MS PREFABRICATED HOUSE PARTS BEING TRANSPORTED BY TRUCKS. LS PAN VAST APARTMENT HOUSE COMPLEX UNDER CONSTRUCTION. APARTMENT HOUSES ALONG HIGHWAY HEAVY AUTO TRAFFIC PASSING BY. VOICE OVER, "APPROXIMATELY 50 MILLION SOVIET PEOPLE MOVED INTO NEW FLATS IN THE PAST 5 YEARS". ABOVE VIEW TWO WAY HEAVY AUTO TRAFFIC ON NEW HIGHWAY MOVING INTO AND OUT AREA. TOWERING APARTMENT HOUSES IN B/G. VARIOUS HUGE APARTMENT BUILDINGS (SKYSCRAPERS). 02:43:19 - VARIOUS SHOTS WELL DRESSED PEOPLE WALKING THE STREETS, ENTERING REVOLVING DOORS, CLIMBING ESCALATORS IN DEPARTMENT STORES, APARTMENT COMPLEXES. MEN SHOPPERS PERUSE SUITS ON MANY SUIT RACKS IN STORE. WOMEN SHOPPING DRESS IN SHOPS, PERUSING DRESSES OM MANNEQUINS. TRYING ON DRESSES. "THE NATIONAL INCOME ROSE BY 41% IN 5 YEARS". "IN THIS PERIOD, THE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME ROSE BY 33%....". 02:44:09 - SALESGIRL ASSISTS YOUNG WOMAN IN TRYING ON EXPENSIVE FUR COAT. CU CHIC YOUNG WOMAN TRIES ON WHITE FUR, ANOTHER A FUR HAT. CU DISPLAY JEWELRY, WRIST WATCHES. ,S HUGE DISPLAY OF TELEVISION SETS IN STORE. SALESMAN DEMONSTRATES ONE TO WELL-DRESSED MEN. 02:44:35 - MS WORKER ON ASSEMBLY LINE ATTACHES DOOR TO NEW REFRIGERATOR. OTHERS IN B/G DOING SAME. VARIOUS SHOTS MODERN APARTMENTS AND STORES, STATUE IN CENTER OF SQUARE IN CITY OF TOGLIATI. TILT DOWN LARGE MODERN LOBBY OF SCHOOL (UNIVERSITY ?) WITH STUDENTS WITH STUDENTS GOING DOWN STEPS INTO LOBBY. ABOVE VIEW PROFESSOR SPEAKING TO STUDENTS IN GALLERY SETTING. CU STUDENTS AT DESKS TAKING NOTES. VOICE OVER, "4, 600,000 STUDENTS, ARE ENROLLED IN THE COUNTRY'S 800 INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING". ABOVE PAN HUNDREDS STUDENTS STUDYING IN HUGE LIBRARY. PAN OPEN BOOKS, PAPERS ON DESK TO CU YOUNG STUDENT WITH HORN RIMMED GLASSES PERUSING THE MATERIAL. STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS, IN LAB WITH PROFESSOR. "EVERY FOURTH STUDENT IN THE WORLD IS A SOVIET CITIZEN." JET MODEL IN AERODYNAMICS CLASSROOM. 02:45:36 - MS VARIOUS SHOTS SOVIET JET AIRLINERS AT AIRPORT. "SOVIET AIRLINERS FLY TO 60 COUNTRIES". LS FIRST SOVIET SUPERSONIC AIRLINER DU-144, TAKING OFF, AND IN FLIGHT. "IT WAS DEVELOPED BY GROUP OF DESIGNERS HEADED BY ANDRE TUPOLEV, ONE OF THE OLDEST SOVIET ACADEMICIAN" 02:46:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS ANDRE TUPOLEV ADDRESSING CONFERENCE, CROWD NEWSMEN, PHOTOGS, TAKING SHOTS. 02:46:09 - CU ONE OF THE YOUNGEST ACADEMICIAN, NUCLEAR SCIENTIST, 34 YEAR OLD, ALEXANDER STRINSKY SITS IN DEEP THOUGHT, AT ROUND TABLE WITH OTHER SCIENTISTS. VARIOUS SHOTS STRINSKY PEERING AT VARIOUS TV SCREENS, OSCILLATORS IN ELECTRONICS CONTROL ROOMS, TAKING NOTES. "..........HELPED STROBE THE INNERMOST SECRETS OF MATTER". 02:47:39 - LS ROCKET BLASTING OFF PAD IN FIERY FLASH. "THE SOVIET UNION WAS THE FIRST TO BLAZE THE ROAD TO OUTER SPACE". VARIOUS VIEWS SPACE LABORATORIES AT WORK ON SURFACE OF MOON, LUNAR LANDER ROAMING AROUND MOON SURFACE (ANIMATED SIMULATION). NEWSPAPER PHOTO OF LUNAR CAPSULE LAYING IN FIELD AFTER ITS RETURN TO EARTH. MONTAGE NEWSPAPER STORIES. NEWSPAPERS ROLLING OFF THE PRESS. MORE OF SIMULATED LUNAR STATION LANDING ON MOON. ROLLING AROUND ON SURFACE OF MOON. 02 48 CO CITY OF TOGLIATI ALL LIT UP AT NIGHT, TRAFFIC IN STREETS. CU PHOTO OF LENIN. VOICE OVER, "THE LIFE OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE IS ILLUMINED BY LENIN'S IDEAS". VARIOUS SHOTS OLD FILM SHOWING MASSES RUSSIAN PEOPLE WORKING, BUILDING, DURING LENIN;S FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN.. MEN, WOMEN IN FACTORIES, STEEL PLANTS, FACE SHOTS VARIETY SOVIET PEOPLES, CULTURES. SMILING, WALKING SIDE BY SIDE AS VOICE OVER RUSSIAN MALE SINGING PATRIOTIC SONG. MONTAGE, HUGE DAMS, CONSTRUCTION SITES, SPARKS FLYING IN STEEL PLANTS, WHITE HOT STEEL RODS ON CONVEYORS, CRANES, INDUSTRIAL SITES, GRAIN BEING POURED, FARMS, COMBINES, HARVESTERS AT WORK, SHIP BEING LAUNCHED, PAN HUGE SUPERSONIC JET PLANE, ROCKET LAUNCH, ETC AS VOICE OVER MALE SINGER SINGS PATRIOTIC SONG. propaganda. 02:51:15 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1971
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: VM-1386A