Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen and narrator describes large increases in production and output to supply the Soviet war effort. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. War production workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
Camera pans over destruction in aftermath of German siege of Sevastopol, Crimea, in World War 2. German General Erich von Manstein, Commander of German and Romanian forces, visits with officers in the ruins of Fort Maxim Gorky. He shakes hands with several of his troops, standing in front of one of the Soviet 305mm coastal guns atop the fort. Scenes of wrecked Soviet defensive batteries. Romanian troops testing the area for buried land mines. A flag identifies location of one. Romanian soldiers removing a buried mine. Romanian officers overseeing the operation. Romanian troops moving downward from the slopes toward the city, where smoke rises from bombardment. German troops moving toward bunkers. One throws a hand grenade. German soldiers moving through the city in house-to-house operations. Soviet warships sunk in the harbor. The Nazi flag flying above damaged building overlooking the harbor. What appear to be twin towers of a Russian Church and a minaret are seen in the rubble. A German soldier lays out a Nazi flag to smooth it for raising, as smoke billows from fires behind him. Camera pans the bombed and shelled hillsides in the area. Some horses stand on the hillside. A damaged artillery field piece stands amidst rubble. A deep bomb crater is shown. Soviet prisoners walk down from the fortifications. A long line of Soviet prisoners is seen marching under guard. Narrator states they number some 90 thousand.
Large group of German prisoners lined up. German prisoners are segregated according to rank by British soldiers. Prisoners are then marched to barbed wire stockade area for interrogation. Long cue of prisoners can be seen marching. Close view of few prisoners. (World War II period)
Views of lot many girls skating on road where some of them are holding banners while they skate. Other girls on roadside watch a skating demonstration by a girl. Girls skating in a long line holding each others shoulders and hands. Close view of two girls sitting and eating burger.
Landscape of Alaska is shown. Trees, glaciers, show covered mountains, dense forests and woods of Alaska, including areas of Tongass National Forest. View of paper mills and pulp mill factories (in other areas) that use tree harvest resources from the area. Forest rangers can be seen in boat reaching Alaska through water ways. Forest rangers walk up to Indian totem poles of native indigenous cultures, now overgrown with vegetation. A simple fishing village with small wooden homes can be seen near the water. A man walks next to a pile of old totem poles on the ground. An Alaskan Native American Indian artist teaching a young man how to carve a totem pole out of tree. Men cutting and carving trees and drawing outlines of figures on wood blocks. A carver sharpens his axe and works on long block of wood. Figures are carved on wood. Then the totem poles are painted with colors. Views of completed totems raised up. Tourists looking at the totem poles.
Wedding party stepping down a long flight of stone steps in Tel Aviv Palestine (later Tel Aviv, Israel). Wedding party is escorted to car by few policemen.
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