Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-1386B

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02:53:39 8.4	CU LEAVES ON MAPLE TREE IN F/G, AND CHILDREN ON CARNIVAL RIDE HIGH ABOVE GROUND, SEATED IN CARS RESEMBLING DISNEY DONALD DUCK FIGURES, IN B/G. PAN TO TALL MODERN MULTI-STORY APARTMENT BUILDINGS, ZOOM AWAY TO CITY STREET TRAFFIC WITH BUSES, AUTOS CIRCA 1980S. AERIAL VIEW CITYSCAPE.
02:54:02 31.4	LS ZOOM IN YOUNG COUPLE LEANING, SITTING ON SEA WALL OF MOSCOW RIVER (?) LOOKING OUT TO SPASSKAYA TOWER IN KREMLIN ON OTHER SIDE OF RIVER, BOAT TRAFFIC IN RIVER IN B/G. CU CUTE LITTLE GIRL WITH BOW ON HEAD, BEING CARRIED BY DAD, WEARING SUNGLASSES AS HE WALKS IN CROWD. STREET SCENE, AFFLUENT MOSCOVITES, YOUNG AND OLD ENJOYING SUNNY DAY IN PARK. YOUNG MOM SEATED AT FOUNTAIN WITH DAUGHTER. LITTLE BOY WALKING WITH MOM LOOKS AT CAMERA. YOUNG DAD PUSHING STROLLER. YOUNG WOMEN SEATED ON PARK BENCH KNITTING. CU PAN RED TULIPS.
02:54:40 69.4	MCU WELL-DRESSED ELDERLY MAN (FEDORA, OVERCOAT) HOLDING FLOWERS BEHIND HIS BACK AS HE WAITS FOR WIFE (?). WOMAN WITH SUN GLASSES STANDING, WAITING, WITH FLOWERS IN HAND. THREE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG WOMAN CHATTING. MS YOUNG MAN SEATED ON BENCH READING NEWSPAPER. MORE YOUNG PEOPLE WALKING AROUND, INCLUDING SHOPPERS WITH SHOPPING BAGS. MS MORE OF KIDS ON CARNIVAL RIDES
02:55:19 108.4	B/W FILM (CIRCA ABOUT 1945) - AERIAL PAN BOMBED OUT CITY IN SOVIET UNION, WITH SHADOW OF CAMERA BI-PLANE CASTING SHADOW ACROSS RUINS. NO BUILDING NOT TOUCHED BY BOMBING. VOICE OVER "THE LOSSES ARE ONLY TOO WELL KNOWN, 1,710 TOWNS, 1,200,000 HOMES, IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT LIFE EXISTED HERE".
02:55:39 128.4	VARIOUS GROUND SHOTS PAN OF SAME. BOMBED OUT TROLLEY CARS. PAN STATUE OF CHILDREN PLAYING RING-AROUND-ROSY, CONTRASTED BY FIERY RUINS IN B/G MS REFUGEE WOMEN AND CHILDREN PULL CART WITH BELONGINGS THROUGH RUINS OF CITY. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN DOING SAME. TWO ELDERLY WOMEN CARRYING SACKS WITH THEIR BELONGINGS. AERIAL PAN RUINS. MS MAYOR LAGUARDIA OF NEW YORK CITY PEERS OUT OF PLANE WINDOW AT SPRAWLING CITY RUINS BELOW. PAN BOMBED OUT HOUSE WITH RUSSIAN WRITING ON WALL. MCU MAYOR LAGUARDIA WITH FAMILIAR TEN GALLON HAT PERUSES RUINS. MORE OF RUINS. "IN STALINGRAD ALONE, 40,000 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED".
02:56:51 200.4	MS OVERSEAS VISITORS (MAYOR LAGUARDIA OF NEW YORK CITY (?) PEER OUT PLANE WINDOW AT DEVASTATION ON GROUND. MS MAYOR LAGUARDIA OF NEW YORK CITY, WITH FAMILIAR 10 GALLON HAT, TOURS SITE OF RUINS.
02:57:17 226.4	MRS SARAH CHURCHILL HOLDS HER HAT IN WIND AS SHE EXITS PLANE AT LONDON AIRPORT. SHE IS MET BY HUSBAND WINSTON CHURCHILL AND OTHERS. MONTAGE MORE RUINS OF BUILDINGS FROM VARIETY ANGLES.
02:57:36 245.4	MLS PEASANT WOMAN PULLING CART FULL BELONGINGS AS YOUNG DAUGHTER PUSHES FROM BEHIND. PEOPLE WAITING ON OUTDOOR FOOD LINE WITH PAILS IN HAND. MS TILT UP THREE STORY HOME WITH WALL BLOWN OUT AND FAMILIES STILL LIVING ON EACH FLOOR. TWO LITTLE KIDS SITTING ON GROUND SHUCKING CORN. LS WOMEN PULLING CART OF BELONGINGS LEAVING BOMBED OUT VILLAGE. PEOPLE LIVING AMID RUINS.
02:58:15 284.4	WOMAN CARRYING PAILS ON SHOULDER BALANCED ON EACH END OF POLE, CLIMBS UP STAIRS OF BOMBED OUT TWO STORY HOME. TWO WOMEN ENTER ROOM WITH BOMBED OUT CEILING. PAN TO PHOTO CHILD ON FLOOR.
02:58:46 315.4	MS TILT DOWN RUINS OF BUILDING TO MEN WOMEN BEGINNING TO CLEAN UP DEBRIS. WOMEN EXIT BUILDING WITH BROOMS, SHOVELS, IN HAND, READY TO TACKLE CLEAN-UP. WOMEN LAYING BRICKS, PLASTERING WALLS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION TASKS USUALLY DONE BY MEN. TWO WOMEN CARRY LOAD OF BRICKS UP STAIRS. gender roles.
02:59:29 358.4	MEN PUTTING IN PANES OF GLASS IN WINDOWS. MAN USING SURVEYOR'S TRANSIT, WAVES TO PARTNER, AS WIFE NOTES THE FIGURES. MAN CLEANING OFF OLD BRICKS FOR REUSE. DAREDEVIL WORKERS BALANCING THEMSELVES ON ROOF BEAMS AS THEY LAY NEW ROOF. POV LOOKING UP.
02:59:49 378.4	HUGE CROWD MEN, WOMEN, WORKERS DOING CLEAN-UP AS TRUCKS FULL OF MORE WORKERS MOVE ONTO OTHER AREAS. WORKERS ON SCAFFOLDING WITH PATRIOTIC WORDS WRITTEN ON SCAFFOLD. MEN CARRYING PLANKS OF WOOD IN F/G.
02:59:59 388.4	LS LARGE MONUMENT WITH NAZI SWASTIKA INSIGNIA IN TOWN SQUARE.
03:00:06 395.4	VARIOUS SHOTS BOMBED OUT RUINS OF CATHEDRAL IN ANCIENT RUSSIAN CITY. PEOPLE GATHER AROUND AROUND ANCIENT FRESCOES LYING IN RUINS. MCU MORE RELIGIOUS STATUES AND ARTIFACTS LITTER GROUND. "IN ANCIENT CITY OF ........, THEY DESTROYED CHURCHES AND PRICELESS FRESCOES, OF THE 12TH CENTURY.....". "THEY DEMOLISHED THE MONUMENT "ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF RUSSIA"
03:01:15 464.4	MS BUST OF RUSSIAN AUTHOR, POET ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE) LIES ON GROUND. LS LIBRARY BUILDING. VARIOUS VIEWS MEN, WOMEN CROWD AROUND BOOKS ON TABLE IN LIBRARY. MS VARIOUS RUSSIAN AUTHORS POSING. MS UNIDENTIFIED AUTHOR SIGN BOOK FOR WOMAN. VARIOUS RUINS OF OLD LANDMARK STRUCTURES.
03:02:09 518.4	VARIOUS STATUES OF MEN AND WOMEN STILL STANDING DESPITE DESTRUCTION AROUND THEM.
03:02:25 534.4	VARIOUS SHOTS CONSTRUCTION SITES WITH ALL WOMEN WORKERS. WOMEN LAYING BRICKS, WHEELING WHEEL BARROWS AND DOING OTHER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION USUALLY DELEGATED TO MEN. gender roles.
03:02:59 568.4	TRUCK FULL OF YOUNG MEN, MANY TEEN AGERS, FROM BELARUSSIA CAME TO WORK ON THEIR FIRST CONSTRUCTION SITE. THE YOUNG MEN CLIMB OFF BACK OF TRUCK, ARE GREETED WARMLY BY OTHER WORKERS. CU FACE SHOT SMILING YOUNG TEEN-AGER, TILT DOWN TO MEDAL ON HIS LAPEL. PAN OTHERS WHO LOOK ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD. ALL WITH MEDALS. CU FACE SHOT TEEN GIRL WORKERS. "THEIRS WAS A HEAVY BURDEN, TO BUILD TWO GIANT PLANTS.......,IN CITY OF MINSK WHICH WAS LEVELLED TO THE GROUND (BY GERMANS)".
03:03:24 593.4	LS GIANT CEMENT MIXER POURS CEMENT ONTO CONVEYORS. MS MEN DIGGING WITH SHOVELS. MEN DRIVING TRACTOR PULLING AN EARTH MOVER. PAN HUGE NEW TRUCK AND TRACTOR PLANTS. CROWD WORKERS GREET NEW TRUCKS AS THEY DRIVE OUT OF PLANT. CU MALE DRIVER AT THE WHEEL.
03:03:59 628.4	VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE HUGE PLANT. CU HARD HAT WORKER WIPES HIS BROW, SMILES.
03:04:20 649.4	MS WELDER AT WORK. LS TRACTORS PULLING THREE STORY PLATFORM ON WHEEL. WORKER WITH LARGE FUR HAT USING SLEDGE HAMMER. LARGE EXPLOSION MOVES MOUNTAIN OD EARTH. HOPPER CARS BEING FILLED WITH DIRT. PAN MEN WORKING SHOVEL DIRT ONTO CONVEYOR FROM BOTH SIDES.
03:05:07 696.4	LS CAMEL CARAVAN ON DESERT HORIZON. IRRIGATION WATER FLOWING ONTO ARID LAND IS APPLAUDED BY NATIVE PEOPLE IN NATIVE COSTUME, ISLAMIC SKULL CAPS. CU NATIVE MUSLIM WITH LONG BEARD AND TURBAN SMILES AS WATER FILLS THE LAND.
03:05:39 728.4	MS YOUNG MAN WITH STRANGE HAT WATCHING THE MOLTEN STEEL SHOOTING SPARKS. LONG WHITE HOT STEEL ROD IS PULLED FROM FURNACE, BENDS LIKE ROPE.
03:05:54 743.4	CROWD SHOPPING IN DEPARTMENT STORE. RACK FULL OF LADIES HIGH HEEL SHOES WOMEN TRYING ON SHOES, SALESMAN, BACK TO CAMERA, HELPS. YOUNG WOMEN CHECKING OUT NYLON SOCKS. SALESGIRLS BEHIND COUNTER HELPING CUSTOMERS. "AFTER FOOD RATIONING HAD BEREN ABOLISHED, THERE WERE TRUE PRICE CUTS ON COMMODITIES
03:06:19 768.4	MEN RIDE IN BACK OF MOVING TRUCK WITH FURNITURE. FURNITURE BEING REMOVED FROM TRUCK BY MOVERS.
03:06:28 777.4	VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG PEOPLE SEATED ON PARK BENCHES AND AROUND FOUNTAIN IN PARK, READING BOOKS. MS WOMAN RIDING BIKE ON CITY STREET, WHILE TOT SITS ON BACK SEAT HOLDING ON. ABOVE VIEW STREET SCENE HEAVY 1940S 50S AUTO, TROLLEY AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. MAN SITS AT PIANO, PLAYS FROM SHEET MUSIC. BALLET IN PROGRESS ON THEATER STAGE.
03:07:08 817.4	WORKER SLIDING DOWN TALL SPIRE (SPIRE OF THE RUSSIAN ADMIRALTY) OF TOWER IN ST. PETERSBURG AS HE HOLDS ONTO ROPE. VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE STATUES BEING UNVEILED. MEN, WOMEN DIGGING HUGE DITCH. HUGE STATUE OF MIGHTY SAMPSON, BEING TRANSPORTED THROUGH CITY STREETS ON ON OPEN TRUCK. MORE OF BOMBED OUT CITY BUILDINGS. TALL MONUMENT IN SQUARE.
03:07:59 868.4	YOSEF ORBELLI, CHIEF CURATOR OF THE HERMITAGE, WEARING YAMULKA, LONG WHITE BEARD, EXAMINING ARTIFACT."NOW HAD ONLY ONE CONCERN, "TO RETURN THE RESERVED MASTERPIECES TO THEIR FORMER PLACES". MS HUGE OIL MASTERPIECE (PAINTING) BEING LIFTED FROM CRATE AND HUNG IN GALLERY. WORKERS CLEANING LARGE ANCIENT (ROMAN) STATUE. HEAD OF STATUE ON GROUND. MORE OF RELIGIOUS STATUES BEING RESTORED TO ORIGINAL SITES.
03:08:49 918.4	SOLDIER, BACK TO CAMERA FIRING GUN AT TARGETS IN OUTDOOR AND INDOOR RANGE. MAN LAYING BRICKS IS HELPED BY WIFE AND SON. FAMILY RUNNING INTO BOMB SHELTER ON THEIR PROPERTY. FAMILY GROUP, DOG, INSIDE SHELTER. COLOR
03:09:25 954.4	( ZOOM IN POSTER OF AMERICAN SOLDIER (MP) TO MAP OF RUSSIA ON WALL BEHIND HIM, TO MOSCOW ON MAP. "THE AMERICANS FIGURED IT WOULD TAKE THE SOVIET UNION AT LEAST 15 TO 20 YEARS TO CLAIM ITS OWN ATOMIC WEAPON". "BUT, THEY FIGURED WRONG". "ON AUGUST 22, 1949, THE USSR TESTED ITS FIRST ATOMIC BOMB". LS VARIOUS SHOTS ATOMIC BOMB BLAST WITH RISING MUSHROOM CLOUD. LS VARIOUS RESULT OF BOMB BLAST FROM CERTAIN DISTANCES AT MOMENT OF BLAST. HOMES BLOW UP, TREES FALL, HEAVY SMOKE FILLED WITH DEBRIS.
03:10:07 996.4	MLS SOVIET ARMY TRUCK PULLING HUGE TRAILER (CONTAINING FIRST THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB, ROLLS ON RAMP INTO GIANT SOVIET JET BOMBER. SUPER JET BOMBER TAKING OFF. LS ATOMIC BLAST AFTER BOMBER DROPPED USSR'S FIRST THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB IN 1953. FAMILIAR MUSHROOM CLOUD. GREAT SHOT
03:10:59 1048.4	MCU ELDERLY, BALDING ANATOLE ALEXANDROV, PRESIDENT OF SOVIET ACADEMY OF SCIENTISTS, EXPLAINS (IN RUSSIAN) THAT THE A-BOMB TESTS WERE TESTED FOR STRICTLY DEFENSIVE PURPOSES.
03:11:21 1070.4	VARIOUS B/W PHOTOS, HOME FILM, SOVIET PHYSICIST, ATOMIC SCIENTIST, IGOR KURCHATOV. AT HIS RETREAT WITH OTHERS. ON PARK BENCH WITH DOG, SNOW ON GROUND. AT BEACH WITH OTHERS. HAVING OUTDOOR PICNIC.
03:12:39 1148.4	VARIOUS COLOR VIEWS OUTSIDE AND INSIDE ATOMIC ENERGY POWER STATION.
03:12:52 1161.4	SOVIET ATOMIC-POWERED "ARCTICA" "THE FIRST SERVICE VESSEL IN HISTORY TO REACH THE NORTH POLE", SAILING THROUGH FLOATING ICE AT NIGHT WITH GLARING SPOT LIGHT TOWARDS CAMERA. CAPTAIN AND MATE AT CONTROLS. MS "ARCTICA" CRASHES THROUGH ICE AND SNOW FORMATIONS. MS SOVIET CREWMEN CARRY SOVIET FLAG TO PLANT, SO AS TO LAY CLAIM TO THE AREA. OF THE NORTH POLE.) MORE OF SHIP SAILING THROUGH ICE.
03:13:19 1188.4	COLORFUL SHOT SUN NEXT TO LAUNCHING PAD WITH ROCKET. STEAM EMITS FROM SPACE SHIP ENGINES ON PAD BEFORE BLAST OFF. SOVIET COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN (?) CLIMBS STAIRS OF LAUNCH PAD, WAVES BEFORE ENTERING SPACE SHIP. COSMONAUT, BACK TO CAMERA, KISSES OFFICIAL BEFORE ENTERING SPACE SHIP. space exploration
03:13:54 1223.4	MLS ROCKETS WITH SPACE CRAFT LIFTING OFF WITH GIANT ROAR. CAMERA FOLLOWING SPACE CRAFT IN FLIGHT. CU B/W SHOTS COSMONAUT (GAGARIN ?) DURING TAKEOFF.
03:14:19 1248.4	LS FAMED SHOTS EARTH AS SEEN FROM SURFACE OF MOON. AERIAL VIEWS OF EARTH AS SEEN BY COSMONAUT.
03:14:44 1273.4	LS ABOVE PAN PICTURESQUE SMALL VILLAGE. VOICE OVER, "IN THIS VILLAGE ALONE , THERE WAS GRIEF IN EVERY SINGLE HOME". "THE WAR TOOK FROM THEM 360 SONS, HUSBANDS, BROTHERS AND FATHERS". MS TOMB AND MONUMENT TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER WITH ETERNAL FLAME BURNING. PAN FLOWERS AND NAMES ON MONUMENT. CU PAN SAD WRINKLED FACED ELDERLY WOMEN WITH COLORFUL SCARVES (BABUSHKAS) AT TOMB, HONORING THEIR LOST ONES. VOICE OVER SINGER SINGING SAD BALLAD. ZOOM IN ETERNAL FLAME. CU CLASPED HANDS, TILT UP ELDERLY WOMAN'S SAD FACE. VARIOUS SHOTS GROUP ELDERLY WOMEN STANDING BEFORE ETERNAL LIGHT AT GRAVE.
03:16:09 1358.4	LS HUGE STATUE OF WOMAN WITH SWORD RAISED HIGH. MS OLD MAN WITH CANE, AND OLD WOMAN, HE WITH BOUQUET FLOWERS, WALK TO GRAVE, KNEEL, HE PLACES FLOWERS, BOTH SAY PRAYER.. CROWD IN B/G WATCH. CU YOUNG WOMAN WITH CHILD IN ARMS AND OTHER YOUNG WOMAN WATCH CEREMONY.
03:16:39 1388.4	GROUP YOUNG PEOPLE AT MEMORIAL CONSISTING OF RUSTED, EXPLODED, SHELL CASINGS ALL BUNCHED UP. MS WOMAN PLACES FLOWERS AT STATUE OF SOLDIER. PAN GRAVE MARKERS CONSISTING OF SEVERAL WWII ARMY HELMETS, SOME WITH HOLES IN THEM, AT GRAVE SITE. VARIOUS OTHER UNUSUAL GRAVE SITES, INCLUDING HUGE OAK TREE WHICH SURVIVED STALINGRAD DESPITE BEING UNDER CONSTANT FIRE.. ZOOM AWAY FROM TREE. STATUE OF WOMAN WITH SWORD TOWERS OVER PASSING TRAIN IN F/G.
03:17:39 1448.4	AERIAL VIEWS LANDMARK BUILDINGS AND SQUARES IN LENINGRAD. FOUNTAINS, STATUES. "OUT OF 210 MASTERPIECES OF ARCHITECTURE, 187 HAVE BEEN DESTROYED". AERIAL PAN OF ANCIENT NOGROV, "ITS HISTORY HAS BEEN RETURNED". VARIOUS SHOTS ANCIENT RELIGIOUS STATUES. AERIAL PAN BEAUTIFUL SQUARE. OTHER SHOTS BEAUTIFUL, PICTURESQUE AREAS CHANGED BEYOND RECOGNITION.
03:19:11 1540.4	YOUNG MAN WALKING DOG PASSING YOUNG GIRL WALKING HER DOG, BOTH PASSING THROUGH COVERED ALLEYWAY WITH COBBLESTONE STREETS. MS QUAINT NARROW STREET WITH OLD BUILDINGS, STORES.
03:19:19 1548.4	AERIAL VIEW INDUSTRIAL AREA WITH SMOKING SMOKE STACKS, FACTORY BUILDINGS, OIL REFINERY AND OTHER INDUSTRY OVER WIDE AREA. GREAT CRESCENT SHAPED DAM, HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT. ".....NO MATER HOW MANY YEARS GO BY, EVERY PERSON LIVING TODAY CAN SAY, THIS WAS DONE BY ME, MY FATHER, MY GRANDFATHER.....". AERIAL MASSIVE NEW DAM.
03:19:53 1582.4	B/W VARIOUS SHOTS WORKERS BUILDING STEEL STRUCTURES, (SKYSCRAPERS (?) HIGH ABOVE GROUND, WELDERS AT WORK. MEN AND WOMEN PUT THEIR BACKS DOING BACK BREAKING WORK. FACE SHOTS MEN, WOMEN AT WORK. BARE FOOTED WOMEN SHOVELLING DIRT, AND OTHER BACK BREAKING LABOR, USING SLEDGE HAMMERS AND SHOVELS. CU YOUNG WOMAN WIPES HER BROW. gender roles.
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