A huge gathering at Green Park, Moscow. Paul Robeson an American African American singer entertains and sings national songs in Russian and English. 1949.
The Kremlin viewed from Borodinsky bridge over Moskva (Moscow) River, in May, 1949. Cathedral Square can be seen to the right (East) dominated by the tall Ivan, the Great, Bell tower. The Metropolitan Hotel viewed from across a square. Buses moving on the streets. Camera pans across members attending meeting of a USSR legislature (Duma), focusing on the wide variety of ethnicities and cultures represented by the persons and dress of the delegates. A speaker delivers a dramatic poetic speech and is applauded. Huge illuminated images of Lenin and Stalin flank the backdrop of the stage and podium. The film ends with the Chairman of the Gosduma, rising and applauding, quickly accompanied by others on the stage and then, by those seated in the hall.
Faces of ordinary Russian workers. Historic footage of Russian leader Vladimir Lenin giving a speech circa 1917.Cheering Russian revolutionaries waving rifles with fixed bayonets around time of Russian revolution by Bolsheviks. Another view of Lenin speaking, followed by view of cheering civilians. Men wave their hands and their caps. A nighttime rally in street. Illuminated monument. Leaders stand in moving vehicle as surrounding crowd cheers. Fixed bayonets reflected in partial light.
The end of World War 2 is reflected in cheerful faces as Russian women workers fold bolts of cloth at a fabric plant. Civilian production has started up again as factory workers and production turns from war production to peace time commerce. Scenes of new ZIS 110 luxury automobiles being manufactured on a Russian production line. Soviet workers place a hood on a car. Mechanics check engines of cars. Cars move along assembly line. A marriage ceremony in the countryside. An artist makes painting of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. A crowd of civilians cheers and waves their hands as a parade procession passes through streets. Marchers carry large portrait of Joseph Stalin. Girls greet war heroes with flowers as the parade moves along a tree-lined boulevard, stopping at an equestrian statue, where the portrait of Stalin is placed.
Views of Moscow and the Volga River during sunset and early nighttime. Sentries at Lenin's Tomb. Lighted star on top of a building. Scene changes to a seaside setting as moonlight reflects on water. A sentry patrols the seashore.
Slate tells of Soviet airplane heading to the North Pole. Russian aviators and ground crew surround a parked Twin Engine Tupolev ANT-4 aircraft at an airport in Moscow. A fuel truck is parked under the left wing and a man stands on the left engine putting fuel into its gas tank from a hose. Closeup shows a triangular pennant with an anchor displayed on the nose of the airplane. Four aviators converse under the aircraft. (Officer at far right is Soviet arctic pilot Fabio Farikh, in command of this flight.). A man carries equipment toward an access ladder, past the airplane's large landing gear strut and wheel. Men carry and load supplies aboard the aircraft, through its bottom hatch. Scene shifts to some time later. The aircraft's wheels have now been replaced by large flat skis and it sits on a snow covered-ramp.View from several feet in front of the airplane as a man holding flags signals for engine start.Two men use a long pole to turn the left engine propeller. Closeup of aviators waving from atop the airplane. They start engines. The propellers blow some snow as they taxi out for take off. Closeup of Ground crew and uniformed persons watching as they depart. View of the airplane in flight overhead.
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