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Soviet hero airman and his hero mother are interviewed by the press in Russian during World War II

Film opens showing bouquets of flowers decorating the front of a house, during World War 2. A Russian woman is seen placing vases of flowers on a table inside the house. Next, a Soviet airman in uniform is seen seated. A slate is inserted saying (in Russian) he is a hero. The airman, surrounded by family members talks into a microphone describing his wartime experiences. He wears a heavy white glove on his right hand. Closeup of him talking. Another slate inserted reads: "Mother Hero" in Russian. His mother speaks to the camera and interviewers (unseen) as her airman son smokes a cigarette, held in his left hand. While she speaks, he reaches and touches her shoulder with his heavily gloved right hand. After she finishes speaking she leans down and kisses her son, as two girls (probably daughters) holding flowers smile.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039426
Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative, departs Moscow after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union in World War II

Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.

Date: 1941, July
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039427
Soviet Union film showing capabilities and equipment of Soviet army forces early in World War II

Opening slate states (in Russian) "Our resistance to the enemy gets stronger and grows." Completely hidden in woods are Soviet soldiers using various telescopes and binoculars to observe on the Eastern front during World War 2. An Air Force pilot sits in the cockpit of his hidden Yak 9 fighter plane. View of of its nose and three-bladed propeller. Camera pans across to a hidden Soviet T-34 tank, and then to several Soviet soldiers looking at maps as they sit in front of a tent. Closeup of the soldiers. A BT tank with several crew in it heads toward the camera on a path in the woods. A heavily camouflaged army truck fords a shallow stream. Several soldiers ride past the camera, in a T-26 tank, raising lots of dust. Another T-26 tank passes. A sodier using binoculars. A Soviet tank or self propelled gun carrier with a stubby howitzer and a machine gun internally mounted. Soldiers remove foliage covering a BR-5 280mm mortar, which commences firing. Shells explode raising huge clouds of smoke and earth. Several views of the BR-5 firing in forest. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground. One rises up and throws two items, in succession. Next a soldier fires a Browning M1917 .30 caliber machine gun. Soviet medics tending wounded. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight overhead. Three Soviet Curtiss-Wright O-52 Owl aircraft fly in loose formation low over a body of water. View from ground of Yak-9 fighter plane coming in over trees to land. A German Bf 109 overhead. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars. Firre and smoke rising in the distance. Burning debris of crashed aircraft displaying Nazi swastika. Closeup of hands as Russian Air Force flyer makes entry into a log. Several smiling Soviet pilots stand together next to a Polikarpov I-153 airplane. They are dressed in leather flying jackets and have their goggles raised atop their hats. An officer with them is not wearing flying clothes. Soviet soldiers explore wreckage of a German warplane. Pieces of the wreckage are piled up in one spot. Several German prisoners are marched along a road guarded by a Soviet soldiers with pistols. A large group of German prisoner are marched in loose formation under guard.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039428
Russian boys and women replace workers in a machine shop who have left to serve in the military during World War II.

Opening slate states (in Russian) "Replacement of those who left for the front." Russian boys stripped to the waist work in a machine shop during World War 2. One operates a large drill press. A woman tends a lathe. Closeup of a young man using drill press to drill holes in a steel plate. Closeup of a women measuring a piece of metal in a lathe. Another woman turning items on a lathe with cooling lubricant spraying over the cutting point. She removes the finished product and places it on a table with others. A woman using a gauge to check dimensions of a turned piece of metal. A young man consults with a woman at a lathe. Another woman also working at a lathe. A man and two women examining finished products on a table.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039429
Soviet farmers hasten to harvest wheat in advance of invading German forces in World War II

Film shows wheat waving in breeze at a huge farm in the Soviet Union during World War 2. View from above of harvesting combines operating in parallel. Closeup of tractor pulling a combine. Closeup of grain flowing into a bin. View through harvesting wheel of the operations. Closeups of farmers atop their machines. View from above of combines at work with grain discharging into a large tractor-pulled wagon. More views of the operation and of grain filling the wagon. Closeup of two farmers examining the wheat grain. Officials sealing large sacks of wheat. View of many sacks piled in front of a building. A tractor pulls numerous flat bed wagons filled with sacks of wheat.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039430
Soviet civilians, and military members receive awards. Officers and soldiers speak encouragingly to others soldiers assembled during World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet people seated aroung a long table. As names are called, individuals step forward and receive small boxes containing medals in recognition of their contributions to the nation during World War 2. Narrator announces their names as they come forward. Uniformed members of the military as well as civilians, receive the awards. Change of scene shows a seated group of army soldiers in uniform, as they listen to an officer speaking enthusiastically to them from a small group in front of them. They stand and applaud. A woman soldier in uniform addresses them. Camera focuses on several women soldiers in the large group. Another soldier also addresses the group. He raises a fist in emphasis as he speaks. The soldier audience stands and applauds.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039431