Far Away in Asia

The first sound film expedition of a group of documentary filmmakers of the Vostok-Kino film studio to Central Asia. Train traffic; the expedition's property is unloaded from the carriage. The expedition car, stuck in the mud, is pulled by a horse. Oriental bazaar in one of the Uzbek cities. Plowing virgin lands with a tractor. Locust clouds over the field. Uzbeks pray in front of the mosque. Agricultural aviation plane over a cotton field. Uzbek women from the Kaunchi collective farm pick cotton by hand. Uzbek men play national instruments and drink tea under a canopy. Dehkans on the square are watching the performance of a tightrope walker. Komsomol subbotnik on cotton picking. Red cotton carts are heading to the Andijan cotton ginning plant. Unloading cotton at the factory. Production processes in the workshop of one of the weaving factories. Finished fabric on the conveyor.

B&W

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Sound by Z. Zalkind Music by Z. Feldman