From the Past of the Earth

Part 1 Text of the message in the newspaper under the heading "Finding a mammoth." View of the arctic landscape, a dog sled is going by. The man jumps off the sled. Mammoth head. People run up to the mammoth, dig ice around the head. Dogs in harness lie in the snow. The southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, covered with forest (from the top point). Bakhshtyr gorge, a view of the recreated site of a primitive man. The entrance to the cave, where primitive man lived 600 thousand years ago. The bones of animals in the cave of a primitive man, the guide introduces the children to the way of life of a primitive man, walks with them through the cave; leafing through an album with sketches about the life of the planet and its inhabitants before the appearance of man. Animation frames recreate the appearance of giant lizards: pliosaurus, tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus. Imprints of ancient plants on lumps of coal and shale - witnesses of times long past. Part 2 Landscape of antiquity. Geographical map of the USSR. A saber-toothed tiger hunting among the trees (animation footage). The guide talks about the reasons for the changes that took place over millions of years in the process of changing plant and animal forms on Earth under the influence of changes in external conditions and in the process of struggle for existence (sync. And z / k). Visitors in the halls of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad.

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I. Filippov

1939