Contemporary Number 42

The newsreel includes 3 plots. 1. Honorary Collective Farmer. The plot tells the story of a family of machine operators Ksenofontovs from the village of Maryevka (Kuibyshev region.) Ducks swim in the lake. Mikhail Mikhailovich Ksenofontov rides on a cart along a rural road. Family photographs of the Ksenofontovs. Combines go through the field of the collective farm named after Chapaev - harvesting grain. The foreman of the tractor brigade Viktor Ksenofontov (eldest son) in the field, next to him is his younger brother Alexander, the manager of a department on the collective farm. Driver Vasily Ksenofontov is driving a car along the road. Refueling combines in the field. MM Ksenofontov on a cart brought water to the field for machine operators. The horse chews hay. Field camp, machine operators have lunch at a table in the field. Machine operators Ivan and Mikhail Ksenofontovs work in the field. A village, a river, chamomile in the foreground. MM Ksenofontov led the horse to a watering hole to the river. Alexandra Ivanovna Ksenofontova at a spinning wheel on a bench near the house. MM Ksenofontov with his youngest son Sergei are laying hay on carts. New houses on the street of the village. A plaque on the house "Here lives the honorary collective farmer Ksenofontov Mikhail Mikhailovich." The Ksenofontovs are sitting on the porch of their house. 2. Forgotten village. The plot raises the question of the villages from which young people leave by the example of the village of Elkhovka (Bezenchuksky district, Kuibyshev region). NDP on abandoned brick houses. Elderly women sit on the porch of a wooden house. The man tells how good it was in the village before, how many young people worked on the collective farm. Elderly people remember the past of the village. An elderly woman strokes a kitten. A young woman with a child in her arms says why young people are leaving the village. Ruined houses on one of the streets of the village. A horse in a ruined house. NDP on the destroyed club building. 3. Grain growers Sikerins. The plot tells about the Sikerin family of grain growers from the Druzhba collective farm (Kulagino village, Semyonovsky district, Gorky region) Lake, in the foreground - flowers. House of the Sikerins, frames on the windows. The Sikerins are beating their braids in the yard of their house. Sikerins mow the grass, the NDP from the grass to the faces of the mowers. The women are stirring up the cut grass, the men are laying the grass in sheaves. The Sikerins wade across the river. Sikerins dine in the field of the square. - their faces.

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Lyricist B. Kozhin, editor A. Nedoluzhko, sound engineer I. Nifonova, announcer N. Mikheev, animator E. Amosova