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Short film highlighting role of women on home front as Soviet Union defends against German invasion in World War II
Film opens showing a woman working alone in a Soviet machine shop. Closeup of a milling machine in operation being cooled by a continuous flow of liquid over the surfaces. Closeup of the woman machinist. She moves a tool holder close to a machine. Another woman is seen in the background. Closeup of milling machine in operation with steel chips accumulating from the milling.
Men, women, and children work to harvest wheat and build defenses in the Soviet union against German invasion during World War II
Film begins showing an armed member of Soviet home guard standing in a wheat field during World War 2.. Nearby a tractor is pulling a harvesting combine machine across part of the wheat field. The harvester is being operated by a woman. A man stands by her side. Closeup of that man and then of him and the woman operating the harvester. Many children are seen bent over gleaning remains in the wake of the harvester. They bring their findings to a boy who empties them into a large sack. Another girl empties a bucket of gleanings into the boy's sack. View of two men standing on platform of the harvester, where they are filling sacks with harvested wheat and depositing them on the ground as the harvester moves along. Closeup of the man and woman atop the harvester. Closeup of the reaper blades cutting the wheat. Camera pans to edge of the wheat field, where civilians are busy building defenses. Camera moves closer and shows the worker in deep ravine to serve as a tank barrier. This group are mostly men. The next scene shows women and girls shoveling earth. Scene shifts to men cutting a new tank trap. Others are burying wood obstacles into the ground. A woman is seen preparing food in a large kettle over a fire. She uses a large ladle to sample the food. Women and girls are working on the defense works in the background.Change of scene shows men placing large logs into the edge of a deep multi-level tank trap. Men and women shovel earth to the top of a log fortification.
Russian farmers thresh crop of grain on a farm in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Opening slate in Russian reads "We will give the Country more bread." Soviet farmers are seen threshing grain with a machine in a field. A woman drives a cart full of grain pulled by a horse. Other horse-drawn wagons deposit more grain in front of the thresher. Men atop the thresher use pitchforks to guide grain into the machine. Closeup atop the thresher where men and women with pitchforks fill the input bin. Closeup of grain pouring from the threshing machine. More scenes of men and women handling harvested stalks and of grain pouring from the machine. Final scenes show huge piles of finished grain being stirred and handled.
Soviet troops run across a bridge, fire anti aircraft guns as German fighter bombers diving towards targets, Soviet Union.
Soviet Troops under an air attack by German bombers in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) during World War II. Soviet troops run across a bridge erected across a river. The bridge is a pontoon type. Two German dive bombers come down. Bomb burst near the bridge. Soviet anti-aircraft guns fire at German fighter bombers diving towards targets. Bomb bursts on the shore near the bridge. Soviet soldiers take cover.
Soviet Tartar soldiers clean and adjust their rifles in Soviet Union.
Contingent of Soviet Tartar soldiers cleaning and adjusting their rifles. Most wear large black hats. although several wear smaller pointed style. (World War II period).
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.