NOMO LABORAHS or a Working Person

The film is assembled from fragments of films and frames of pre-revolutionary newsreels, both domestic and foreign, as well as chronicles of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, frames of modern chronicles, incl. and foreign. 1 part. Soviet newsreel footage of the 1920s: the audience enters the cinema hall, takes a seat; the projectionist loads a film strip into the apparatus, the lights go out in the hall, the title of "Pathé-magazine" appears on the screen. Fragments of pre-revolutionary, incl. foreign newsreels: Cavalrymen ride horses to the riding hall, performance of trained parrots, extinguishing a fire in / Moscow /. Photos of the agitation train, agitation van. Fragments of newsreels from the 1920s: A projectionist shows a box of film to a peasant. The projectionist demonstrates to a group of cadets the principle of a movie camera. Moving machine in the field. A group of people pull up the screen to watch. The man starts the gramophone. A fragment of a feature film, where one of the heroes of the film is Karl Marx: Karl Marx is in his office, comes up to the table and writes something. Newsreel footage of the 20s, incl. and foreign: Railway workers in the locomotive depot repairing a steam locomotive, preparing it for movement, the locomotive leaves the depot. Cutting from short shots from foreign newsreels on the topic of railway transport and other production topics. the movement of locomotives, trains, the switch of the railway line, the beginning of the working day at one of the enterprises (Germany?), the workers of the enterprise walk past the watchmen through the checkpoint. Construction of Turksib: blasting operations, laying of railway tracks. Construction of industrial facilities of the first five-year plans in the USSR, work in oil fields, general view of oil rigs, work of oil pumps, manual distillation of oil. Newsreel footage of the 80s: installation work at one of the enterprises, installation of power transmission line supports, transportation of towers to the drilling site for a gas field. Foreign newsreels from different years: a view of a bridge across a river, high-rise buildings in New York, the construction of a bridge with the participation of high-rise installers who work at high altitudes without insurance. A group of people is watching the work of the installers. A man on the roof of a high-rise building. Fragments of newsreels, capturing the competitions of waiters: they compete, running with trays at speed through the streets, as well as competitions of fire brigades that demonstrate the speed of extinguishing a fire, competition in cutting sugar cane. Fragments of newsreels depicting A. Stakhanov: A. Stakhanov in the face during his record in cutting coal, a solemn meeting of A. Stakhanov and members of his team after the shift. German newsreel footage of the 1920s: the queue of the unemployed at the labor exchange, the view of closed enterprises, empty workshops and abandoned mines, the sale of unemployed property by auction. Demonstrations of workers: the demonstrators carry out a portrait of Karl Marx and walk with him down the street. Mounted police on the streets, police check the driver's documents in the car. An armored car with policemen is driving along the street. Workers clash with police. Impact type: upturned boulders on the pavement. Distribution of leaflets. People stand in the street with their fists raised "Rot-Front". Demonstration in Berlin. 2 part. Newsreel footage. Capturing the city of Tallinn in the 30s-40s: views of the Old Town and architectural monuments, the movement of cars along one of the central streets, the traffic controller regulates the traffic, the streets of the city, people on the streets, shop windows, the audience at the tables of street cafes, girls waitresses in national costumes serve visitors; a group of men are sitting on a bench on the embankment opposite the seaport; people in the park. A man feeds a squirrel, swans swim in a pond. View of one of the squares, a man sits on a bench, feeding pigeons. Newsreel footage of industrial landscapes with smoking chimneys. View of a rotating turbine at a power plant. Interior view of the power plant's turbine room. Production processes in the workshops of various enterprises in Germany, incl. at factories where weapons are made: bombs, shells, rifles, T-3 tanks. General view of the finished bombs in the yard of the enterprise. Workers leave the factory gates after their shift. Construction of a military vessel at one of the / German / shipyards. Launching the vessel. Launching the German submarine. Newsreel footage of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1937): A biplane plane in the sky, dropping bombs on one of the Spanish cities, firing an artillery gun, a girl crying, looking at houses destroyed as a result of an air raid, an elderly Spanish woman at a destroyed house, soldiers The Republican army is carrying the wounded on a stretcher, in their arms, the evacuation of the wounded, a soldier firing a heavy machine gun from a building, civilians fleeing for cover from an air raid. Front-line cameramen are filming events in Spain and other events of the period of the 2nd World War. Foreign newsreel footage of the 30s: Tanks "Matilda" leave the shop of one of the factories in England. Halifax military heavy bomber before its 1st flight. The audience is watching the preparations for the flight. The plane takes off and flies. A group of men with shovels walks to the construction site of the autobahn, work on the construction of the road. A. Hitler with a shovel surrounded by his entourage at the construction of the Autobahn; among those present / M. Borman /. Newsreel footage (20s, 30s): A sign on the gate "Nevsky Mechanical Shipbuilding Plant named after Lenin "; in the shop there is a notice “March 9 public trial of truants of the 2nd mechanical workshop. The prosecutor is the Leningrad newspaper Pravda, the defender is the Trud newspaper. Fragments of the film with captions, which captures the trial of truants: the accused of truancy, the audience in the hall. A group of workers stand in front of an ad announcing a reduction in absenteeism. A meeting of workers in the yard of the plant. Workers leave the gates of the enterprise. German newsreel footage of the 30s: young men and women in Hitler Youth uniforms enter the building, a military man stands at the entrance, keeping order. A group of young people in the workshop, collecting devices. Construction of a road by prisoners (in striped trousers). The car is driving along the road. A group of people is digging a man out of the ground. Close-up of a man. Soviet newsreel footage of the 1930s: type of oil fields, production processes at industrial enterprises, workers of the Krasnaya Zarya textile factory leaving the factory gates (Ramenskoye), cultivating the land with tractors; General view of the carts moving along the steppe. Part 3. Frames of foreign newsreels: A dog on the site, demonstrating to the assembled audience his ability to climb a high staircase, and then jump down from it. A puppet show in a Spanish city. A Jewish woman behind barbed wire in the ghetto. German soldiers stand at the ghetto gates. German soldiers search women as they leave the factory site, while British workers change clothes in the shop before the shift begins. View of the tank assembled in the workshop. The girl makes an inscription on the tank, incl. in Russian: "Hello to our allies." Newsreel footage of the 2nd World War: German planes are flying, a view of a blown up bridge, burning houses; front-line cameramen are filming the events of World War II in different years, on different sectors of the front. Newsreel footage without specifying the location and date of filming (presumably post-war): Hammers are hitting an anvil in the forge shop of the enterprise, iron smelting at one of the metallurgical plants. Foreign newsreels: missile launch from warships during military exercises. Footage of the chronicle that captures the events of the American aggression in Vietnam: a downed American plane is burning, the view of the soldiers of the South Vietnam Liberation Army. Demonstrations in England and Greece. Production processes in the shops of one of the textile enterprises in Southeast Asia. A fire in a high-rise building, firefighters extinguish the fire, evacuate people trapped in the building, a man falls from the top floor. Schooner aground at sea near a rocky coast. Production processes in film laboratories / North Caucasian / farm studio. Modern newsreel footage filmed by the operators of the North Caucasian studio of the farm: an old chaser knocks out a pattern on the metal, production processes at one of the bakeries, harvesting grain, sowing wheat.

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V. Karev, N. Tebieva