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Soviet mobilization at onset of World War II

Soviet spokesmen and soldiers speak at military recruitment event during World War 2. Young men in the audience applaud. A soviet soldier leads the new recruits are led off, carrying their belongings. Next, they are seen marching along a city street, swinging their arms in a cadence. A small group of Russian recruits is introduced to the manual of arms and drill by a soldier. The group marches toward the camera, led by several regular army soldiers.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040192
Film about coal mining in Soviet Union during World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet coal miners underground moving chunks of coal by means of a conveyor system during World War 2. Some of the coal chunks are extremely large. They are moved upward in the mine shaft on a conveyor and then loaded into open coal cars seen linked together as a train on a rail in the mine.

Date: 1941
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040193
Women contribute blood at a hospital blood bank in the soviet union during World War II

Soviet civilian women are seen registering to contribute blood for the war effort during World War 2. They pass by a registration desk and are then seen in large numbers attended by medical staff who take their blood as they ly on cots. Both donors and medical staff are dressed in white and wear head and face masks. View of blood being collected in a flask. The women donors sit up, smiling, when finished. Physicians and staff consolidating collected blood in batches and packing them in boxes for transport.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040194
Soviet film illustrating readiness to cope with possible air attack in rural village during World War II

A man pulls on a rope to ring a bell alerting a rural Soviet village of impending air attack during World War 2. Villagers begin running to shelters. Two biplanes, with fixed gear and inline engines, fly at tree top altitude over the area. A villager pulling on a rope at another bell alerting the populace. More views of villagers running to shelters. Several aircraft seen overhead. At least one appears to be equipped with skis. Another man sounding a bell alarm. Some men mount horses and ride them out of the village. Farmers in a field round up livestock and drive them away from pastures into nearby woods. Parachutists are seen descending from overhead. Village men on horseback are issued rifles as they pass by a wagon where a man is handing them out. They ride into woods nearby and then take up defensive positions with their weapons. As the parachutists land and spill their chutes, the armed villagers move closer to them. Next, men on horseback ride victoriously into their village and another group of men and women also parade into the village.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040195
Soviet antiaircraft battery in operation during World War II

Two Soviet army officer's exchange salutes with two enlisted men manning a well camouflaged antiaircraft gun outdoors, during World War 2. The officers then proceed through thick underbrush to another camouflaged antiaircraft gun site. One officer looks through binoculars at a German Junkers 88 (Ju 88) bomber maneuvering high overhead. Four more German aircraft appear overhead (unidentifiable). The gun crew prepare to fire at the aircraft. Closeup of gunner manipulating control wheel of the gun. View from the side, of the gun. A lone German Ju 88 aircraft is seen overhead. Closeup of gun crew placing shells into tun breech and firing. Several gun barrels are seen indicating this is an antiaircraft battery. The aircraft appears hit and begins to descend rapidly. It crashes, raising black smoke. Scene changes to closeup of burning wreckage of German aircraft. (The tail fin from a twin tail Dornier 17 (Do 17) is seen at left side of picture.)

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040196
Deserting German soldier presents a safe conduct pass to Soviet soldiers during World War II

Film shows Soviet soldiers accompanying a deserting German soldier through woods, during World War 2. They bring him to a non-commissioned officer who examines his papers including one that had been distributed (probably air dropped) by Soviet forces to German forces on the ground. Written in German it translates to "Comrades, with this card, All German soldiers , who are on the side of the Red Army, are guaranteed a life of good treatment and return home after the war." A Russian translation of the safe conduct pass is then shown translated into Russian. Closeups of the German soldier defector being further interrogated as he stands and responds. He is then led off in a friendly way by the soviet soldiers.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040197