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Lenin and Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin after the Civil War in Russia; American food aid to Soviet Union.
Post Russian Revolution events in Soviet Russia. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, silhouetted and speaking. Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky seated at a table. Workers and Peasants Inspection Group is formed and its chief is Joseph Stalin. Stalin, walking with Molotov, and others, on a street. Stalin's supporters Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. People at a railroad train station. Soviet farmers harvesting grain with machinery. Woman cutting bread loaf in a bakery and weighing it to provide a ration. Cans and bags of American aid food items stacked on a counter. Russian Civilians gather near a grain scale. Canned food arriving from the United States. American Relief Administration workers handling food relief items. Scenes of American Relief Administration feeding hungry Russians. Footage of Herbert Hoover, head of the American Relief Administration, seen onboard a ship in a harbor. Children in Russia eating food: Young children in a nursery setting seated and eating as a nurse feeds them.
Soviet Civil Defense training during World War II
Group of young Soviet women dress in protective clothing and masks. Two persons form seat with their hands and arms to carry an injured person. Men train to carry injured person with and without a litter. Soviet civilians manually clearing debris to enable rescue of persons, and learning to provide first aid to injured persons. Civilians practicing various bandaging techniques. Civilians, including younger boys, don protective clothing and practice disposal of incendiary bombs. A woman in uniform gives command for civilians to don protective masks. Men, women, and children, donning protective masks and clothing. Hazmat teams decontaminating an area. Volunteers returning their tools after a practice session. Russian women stocking first aid medicine and equipment. A man lowering blackout blinds and drapes at a window. Soviet policeman directing traffic and pedestrians. Young man in a lookout tower.
King of Romania Ferdinand I, King Alexander I of Greece and Herbert Hoover in Europe during World War I, also surrender of Jerusalem.
United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover in Belgium. Herbert Hoover drinks tea and converses with officials. In Brussels, Belgium, Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier is seen in conversation with a man standing beside a street. Next scene shows King of Romania Ferdinand I on horseback as he reviews his last brigade. Queen Marie of Romania stands with her daughter, Princess Ileana, during a ceremony. King Alexander I of Greece reviews his army before he sends them to battle against Bulgaria. Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and head of the British mission to Salonika is seen greeting King Alexander I. Greek Patriarch is also present. A ceremony of the surrender of Jerusalem in Palestine to the British under General Allenby. Last scene is from a ceremony of recognition in which Chaim Weizmann presented a Jewish scroll to Allenby (Weizmann seen on Allenby's right before the dignitaries are seated).
Europe begins to normalize as World War II comes to an end; scenes in Serbia, Spain, and Czechoslovakia.
A Slav festival in Serbia. People climb stairs to enter a Greek Catholic Church, where a priest is seen waving a container of incense, as part of the ritual. (Narrator notes that the theme is protection of native cultures, including protection of religion.) The Priest slices a large piece of bread for the Mass. Next an accordion is seen and dancers assemble for the "Kolo" (a Serbian national dance). View of dancing, that marks end of the festival. Scene shifts abruptly to a sailboat race in Malaga, Spain. Narrator says it "suggests the idea of normal living with a prosperous new Europe." Film shifts to mountains of the high Tatras, in Czechoslovakia, where Ski troops of the Czech army demonstrate their abilities.
Renewed tourism in Western Europe five years after World War II
Transworld Airways Lockheed Constellation passenger airplane arriving from New York City and Shannon,Ireland. It taxis to parking ramp at Orly Airport, Paris, France. Closeup of another airliner shutting down on the ramp. Passengers walk across the ramp and under the tail of an Air France plane, on their way to the terminal building. They are greeted by a band of men in red huntsmen uniforms playing hunting horns. A railroad train in a picturesque setting. Patrons relaxing on a cafe terrace, at an Italian train station, as an electrified train pulls in. An excursion boat draws near to Chillon Castle On Lake Geneva Switzerland. More views of the castle, from its footpath. Ancient Greek ruins near the Mediterranean Sea. Saint Mark’s Basilica on St. Mark’s Square in the city of Venice, Italy. Many visitors walking in the square, and a flock of pigeons taking flight. The Palace of Versailles, viewed from behind statues in the garden. Chartes Cathedral, Chartres, France. St Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy. Views of Copenhagen, Denmark, including the Little Mermaid statue. A man rowing a boat on a lake in the Alps Mountains. Snow-covered mountains. Trains running in the mountains. Border guards of Italy and Switzerland on their respective sides of their mutual border at a train station. A train transiting the border. A Volkswagen Type 1 (Beetle) car and other vehicles being processed at a German border crossing.
Forks of Cypress plantation home and other sites, likely in Alabama, circa 1939; African American man tending a large bell.
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.
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