Eleventh

A film poem dedicated to the 11th year of Soviet socialist construction (DneproGES, Volkhovskaya GES, Donbass mines, etc.), tells about industrialization in the USSR in the language of images, associations and metaphors. The film uses the technique of combined filming. I "a" (first) part. Biplanes fly over the ground. View of the ground from the cockpit. Dnieper, threshold "Nenasytets", water breaks on stones. A mass of water rushes. Rocks along the banks of the Dnieper. View of the rock "Catherine's Chair" from the side of the river. Rock "Bogatyr", wooden boats at the base of the rock. General view of the "Rock of Love", in front of it on the shore - a human skeleton from the excavations of an ancient burial mound. Construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. Builders are walking with shovels, horse carts are passing by. Construction equipment is driving on a flat area. The excavator bucket grabs the ground. General view of a working excavator. Trucks are driving along the road. Workers with a crowbar, a pickaxe beat off boulders from the rock. An excavator bucket loads stones onto carts driving off the rails. Cr.pl. - the faces of the builders. The train goes on rails on the construction site. Builders are driving piles. Pipes of buildings of the future power plant. Building under construction in scaffolding. NDP on buildings on the banks of the Dnieper. Preparing for the explosion in the rock. A man with a flag and a megaphone in his hands rises on a wooden platform. Sunset, workers sawing logs on the banks of the river, in the background - boats sailing with flags at the stern. Builders go from work at sunset. Cr.pl. - a cart with stones. I "b" (second) part.Kr.pl. - a bell attached to a wooden post. Works on the construction of DneproGES. Explosion, part of the rock is crumbling. Explosions. Workers from shelter watch the explosions at a construction site. Excavations of an ancient burial mound, uncovered by builders - a human skeleton lies on the ground. New buildings - two-storey wooden houses, passers-by on the street. Buildings on the river bank (filmed from a passing ship). Power lines. A windmill is in operation. A peasant woman is sifting grain in the courtyard of her hut. A view of one of the Ukrainian villages, thatched roofs of huts, a horse-drawn carriage driving along the street. The man is leading the bulls harnessed to the cart. Women in the field are sorting out root crops. A woman carries buckets of water on a yoke along the street of the village. The electrician climbs the pole with his "claws". Women in smart Ukrainian clothes look into the lens and smile. Cr.pl. - the girl's face. Villagers walk along one of the streets, a pig is on the street. Horses harnessed to a cart with hay eat oats from a bag. A double exposure image of a village flooded with water, horses at a watering hole by a river, ducks swimming in the water. A woman opens the windows in a hut, the courtyard of one of their huts. The sign "ELECTRO-COOPERATIVE" on the roof of the barn, women are loading hay. Hay arrives on a conveyor belt, peasants collect it with a pitchfork. General view of the courtyard of the cooperative during hay harvesting. The grain cleaning machine processes ears of grain, cr.pl. - threshed grains. Women with children in their arms by sheaves of straw. Women sweep the yard with brooms, collect straw in heaps. Interior view of the building of the hydroelectric power station, view from the window. A hydraulic turbine is in operation, cr.pl. - mechanisms in action II a (3) part. Miners take the elevator down to the face. Running trolleys with coal. General view of one of the faces (Donbass). Mechanical delivery of coal. Manual haulage. Miners' faces. Horses harnessed to coal carts are walking along the road in a mine. Manual delivery of coal. Manual slaughter. Cutting machine in the face. The work of the lifting device, the miners rise to the surface from the face. Miners go up the stairs in the mine building. General view of a mechanized coal warehouse. Women take carts with coal from the face, push them. The women are sorting through the coal coming along the conveyor belt. One of the women smashes large pieces of coal with a hammer. A train with coal is going. General view of one of the new mines. One of the metallurgical plants, workers at the steel-making furnace, smoke the pipes of the plant. Sunset on the Black Sea. Sentry at the state border. The bow of the ship with a five-pointed star, general view of a warship. Volkhovskaya hydroelectric power station, a water collapse near the dam (filmed from the cable car suspension cradle), there is a sentry with a gun. The warship "CHERVONA UKRAINA" is sailing on the sea. Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov on horseback in front of a detachment of mounted Red Army soldiers. NDP on the faces of the Red Army. The cavalry rushes across the field, cart rides. II b (fourth) part. Smoke from the pipes of the plant. The sentry on the tower. A horse-drawn carriage goes along the street of one of the villages. Night, a lantern is on, a shed with a sign "ELECTRO-COOPERATIVE". A sign on a wooden house "VILLAGE RADA TIVRIVSKY DISTRICT VINOKRUGA", participants of the meeting of the village council are sitting at the table. Meeting of Komsomol members in an electrified village. Young people go to the meeting. Evening, a light is on in the window of the hut, outside the window - the family is having supper at the table. View of the workers' settlement, new one-story houses. A sign on a mansion in the center of one of the Ukrainian cities "HOUSE OF WORKING METALLISTS", passers-by are walking by. NDP on the facade of the mansion. Signboards on the building "ZHOVTNEV", "ELECTRIC STATION. VINELEKTRO ". The building of the power plant, in the foreground - a reservoir, behind the station, one-story houses rise up the hill. Women wash clothes in the river near the station, the boys go fishing. Women with small children are resting on the stones by the river, in the background is the building of the power plant. Children wash a pig in the river. Blast furnace construction work. Metallurgists at the blast furnace. Pipes of a metallurgical plant. A panorama of the plant's buildings. A new steam locomotive leaves the depot. The mechanism removes metal shavings from the parts of the future machine. View of one of the workshops for the manufacture of fittings. The wire is wound on spools. Shop of one of the factories, a worker checks the mechanism. Cr.pl. - the mechanism is in operation. A steam locomotive is going, the inscription “PLANT NAMED AFTER T. DZERZHINSKY. No. 211 ". The locomotive passes by the settlements, under the pedestrian bridge. Biplanes fly among the clouds. Several biplanes simultaneously perform aerobatics. The man looks at the sky, waving his cap. Land view from a flying biplane. A sign on the building "TIVRISKA COOPERATSIA" SELF-HELP ". Peasants queue up to enter the building of the cooperative. African in cap and bow tie. Cr.pl. - the face of a smiling Indian. Cr.pl. - the face of an oriental woman. Freight cars go along the railway tracks to Dneprostroy. General view of the construction site of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, in the background - the flowing waters of the Dnieper (filmed from the window of a passing train). Combination of the military parade and demonstration of workers on November 7. The child at the demonstration waves a flag. Foreign guests - participants in the demonstration on November 7. Cr.pl. - the face of a young peasant woman. Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square. There is a detachment of girls with five-pointed stars on their shirts. The military is marching. There are men in gas masks with rifles to cut through. Black Sea, the guns of the warship are put on alert. III (fifth) part. Dneproges construction. People walk along the wooden bridge. Construction machinery is driving along the road. Builders with shovels go to work. Peasants are walking along a wooden bridge, in the foreground is a cow with a calf. Red Army soldiers on horseback climb the hill. A detachment of builders with shovels is walking along a wooden bridge, they are controlled by the military, in the background - pipes are smoking. A steam locomotive rides on rails at a construction site. A man with a lantern climbs the stairs to the bridge, followed by women. The girls are pushing the cart. Mechanisms work. Power lines, in the foreground - the wind bends down the ears. Plowing a field, tractors with a plow are driving across the field. Smoke from the chimneys of factories. Industrial buildings, premises. Demonstrators are walking across the square of one of the cities, carrying banners, big letters "OCTOBER", "LENIN" on the buildings. The flag on the building, the inscription "PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!", Passers-by are walking by. The buildings of one of the metallurgical plants. NDP through the pipeline. Military boat at sea. Preparation for the installation of Dneproges structures. Master at the lever in the crane cabin. The walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Loudspeakers on the territory of the Kremlin. NDP through the pipeline. A young man with a gun is marching. A girl is marching. Ukrainian village, peasants thresh the sheaves with the help of mechanisms, pour grain into bags. Planned explosions at a construction site. "Hot" shop, pouring metal. Destruction of rocks during the construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. Mechanisms work in the shops of one of the factories. Girls with five-pointed stars on their shirts are marching. Work in the blacksmith shop. Smoke is coming from the chimneys of the plant.

B&W

3

1928