Old Archive Footage

Box 1. Shots from the feature film "October" and other feature films dedicated to the October Revolution of 1917. Chronicle footage: Petrograd, 1917, February, sack barricades, sentries on Palace Square; armed soldiers and sailors descend the stairs at Smolny, sailors at machine guns; Moscow, November 7, 1918, Lenin makes a speech at the opening of the monument to K. Marx and F. Engels; Moscow, 1920, May 1, V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the opening of the monument "Liberated Labor", the 5th All-Russian Congress of Workers, Peasants, Red Army and Cossack Deputies, delegates go to the Congress, the chairman of the Congress J. Sverdlov poses for the camera ; S. M. Kirov, S. Ordzhonikidze, A. V. Lunacharsky speak from the rostrum, M. I. Kalinin is receiving visitors, G. V. Checherin at the building, in the park, talking; workers are building a narrow-gauge railway, the tractor leaves the plant; takeoff of a rocket from a test range. Box 2. Chronicle footage: Moscow, 1952, the building of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow art workers welcome the Hungarian delegation, speaking: V. Dulova, F. Szabo (synchronously); a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the death of L. Beethoven in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory; the audience is applauding in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater (synchronously); an evening dedicated to the memory of S. A. Martinson, attended by: Z. Kirienko, A. Babadzhanyan; an evening dedicated to the memory of P. P. Aleinikov, speakers: M. Gluzsky, L. Smirnova, present: A. Romashin with his wife, S. Rostotsky; S. Ya. Lemeshev performs Lensky's aria from the opera "Eugene Onegin" at the Bolshoi Theater; the singer performs in the field camp in front of collective farmers; Sledging; book depository. Fragment of the feature film "Sadko", starring S. Stolyarov, L. Vertinskaya.

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