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Early Life of Cuba

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Abstract
Stay in Cuba N. V. Podgorny in connection with the celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Celebrations on the José Martí Revolution Square in Havana on January 2, 1964, dedicated to the anniversary date. Military parade. Troops, equipment are passing by, planes are flying by. Fidel Castro speaking. Present: N. V. Podgorny, D. Ibarruri, O. Dorticos. Carnival procession through the streets of Havana. The landing site of the Cuban patriots led by Fidel Castro on the schooner Granma. Newsreel: revolutionary rebel troops are entering the city. Fidel Castro and others on the tank. A jubilant people. Representatives of the authorities present the peasants with certificates for the use of land. US invasion of the Playa Giron area. Tanks are passing by, military men are leaving. Demonstration of protest against the American aggression in Cuba at the building of the American Embassy. N. V. Podgorny's visit to the Marielskaya power plant, a mechanical plant in Santa Clara, a reservoir, a mining training center named after Lenin, which are being built with the help of the USSR; poultry farms, vegetable plantations, industrial crops, sugar cane. Chopping sugar cane by hand. Loading cane with a Soviet-made forklift. Testing of harvesters for harvesting sugar cane, created by Soviet engineers. The steamer "Chernyakhovsk" in the Cuban port. Loading and unloading works. Visit N. V. Podgorny and E. Guevara tourist center on the site of the Indian village. Vacationers are walking along the beach. Cuban landscapes. Sea, palms, flowers, orange trees.
Director
I. Setkin
Color
Color
Film ID
19112
Keywords
secondary vocational education
, international workers solidarity
, economic communications
, leisure
, revolutionary liberation movements
, sea transport
, tourism
, state holidays
, political connections
, agriculture
Meterage
860,4
Number of Parts
3
Operators
V. Kiselev
Other Creators
Sound I. Gunger
Release Date
1964
Sound