A Soviet science fiction film depicts the dramatized launch of a proposed reusable, manned space vehicle from Russia, with astronauts bound for a mission to walk on the moon and then return to earth in their space ship. Includes early science fiction images of space travel. A photo frame of a Russian missile program pioneer. The manned space vehicle at a gantry. Three astronauts walk. An officer greets the astronauts on board the gantry. The astronauts wave at the civilians and enter the manned space vehicle. A man controls and watches the launch from a control room. The gantry is removed from the manned space vehicle. The space vehicle is launched. It travels through space. The astronauts experience weightlessness inside the vehicle. The astronauts disembark from a lunar module and walk on the lunar surface.
The German campaign in Russia during World War II. Nazi tanks loaded on flat cars being brought to counter the Soviet forces. The tanks roll across an area. Soldiers prepare as they gather on a field and look at a map. The soldiers build trenches and advance. They walk in a trench. The soldiers climb up an observation tower. Nazi officers at a map.
After Lenin makes peace with Germany, civil war breaks out in Russia. White Russian troops are seen fighting against Bolshevik troops in the snow. American soldiers, supporting the White Russians, are seen in Archangel (Arkhangelsk). Cossacks on horseback carry the Tsarist flag. The Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family are photographed outdoors seated on a wooden bench by barricade fence at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. Bolsheviks arresting other revolutionaries who were opposed to them, and executing them by firing squad. Vladimir Lenin with cat in his lap. View of Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (AKA "Dora") who attempted to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918. View of Lenin speaking to Soviet workers. Newspaper of September 1, 1918 reports on the assassination attempt, with dateline London, August 31st: "Lenin wounded twice by assassin. Attempt on Red Premier's life at Moscow. Commissary Uritzky murdered at Petrograd." Crowd in turmoil in Moscow. Newspaper reports capture of would-be assassin, noting that "official Bolshevist paper says, "She is girl of intellectual class." Narrator states that some 500 anti-Bolsheviks are executed in Moscow.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German soldiers fire artillery in Russia. Several trees in view and smoke rising from explosions in the background. A soldier in prone position looking through binoculars. A group of German soldiers firing artillery from a trench. Several damaged buildings in the background. A soldier kneeling on the ground looking through binoculars. German soldiers sitting beside a house. A few soldiers standing beside a house as Soviet shells explode in a nearby area. Smoke rising from the explosions. Soldiers carrying equipment moving on a field. A soldier carrying on his back wires wound on a reel roller. A few soldiers laying the wires. A few soldiers beside a house. Smoke rise from the explosions of Russian shells. Smoke rising from several explosions. Two German radio operators in a foxhole, wearing headphones and sending a message by radio. German soldiers firing artillery. A German officer and several soldiers beside the artillery. Smoke rising from shelled positions. The soldiers advancing on a field and across a road. Buildings at a distance and smoke rising from the explosions.
The Russia Campaign of World War II. German soldiers firing artillery at Soviet positions from a field. The soldiers beside the artillery cover their ears. Explosions occur and smoke rise from the explosions in a distance. Soldiers beside a mortar in a trench. The mortar is fired. A few soldiers holding guns in prone position on a field looking at the explosions occurring. Soldiers beside an army jeep. Two of them in the jeep. Several houses in the background. Smoke rising from shelled positions.
President John Kennedy at speaker's stand in a press conference speaks that Professor Frederick Barghoorn was on a cultural mission to Russia and Russians will release him. Professor is released after spending 16 days in prison. Professor Frederick emerges from plane and is greeted by State Department Officials and family members in New York. At a news conference on his return, Professor Barghoorn said that in Russia you can be accused of Intelligence activity merely by walking down the street. Press cameramen recording event.
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