Kinoalmanakh about the role of documentary cinema in the history of the country on the example of the work of the Kuibyshev (since 1991 - Samara) newsreel studio. 1 part. The deserted building of the Samara newsreel studio at 66 Molodogvardeyskaya Street. Studio auditorium, projection and sound editing rooms. Filmed boxes. There is a long queue outside for milk. Children ride down a slide on Kuibyshev Square, in the background is a monument to V.V. Kuibyshev (1938, sk.M. Manizer, architect N.A. Trotsky) and the building of the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (1938, architects N.A. Trotsky and N.D. Katsenelenbogen) newsreels: [1920s]: a military parade of the Red Army on Red Square; speech of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) V.I. Lenin at a meeting of the II Congress of the Comintern on July 19, 1920 in Petrograd. [1920s-1930s]: demonstrations in different countries and cities of Russia, including on Red Square in Moscow, with calls against fascism. Writer M. Gorky on the podium; the train stopped on the snow-covered rails, passengers with their luggage were forced to walk along the tracks. 1991, Samara: a rally on Glory Square near the White House (the building of the Administration of the Samara Region); a speaker's speech; posters of the protesters: "PRESIDENT OR GENERAL", "YELTSIN - YES", "RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RETURN TO RUSSIA", "CANNIBALS OF THE WON'S PARTY FROM LITHUANIA", "CPSU UNDER COURT", "OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS! REMEMBER! YOU ARE PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE "," GORBACHEV IN RESIGNATION "," WE ARE FOR RUSSIA'S SOVEREIGNTY "," COMUNIANS, HANDS OFF YELTSIN !!! ". Part 2. Samara newsreel studio. Auditorium with rows of armchairs, projection room. B / W newsreels: 1924, Moscow: the funeral of V.I. Lenin, a column of people; present: N.K. Krupskaya, assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Red Army for cavalry, member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny and others. [1927-1928] years, Samara province: harvesting in the agricultural commune "Luch"; [commune chairman] at a herd of cows, on a pig farm. [1927-1929], the Middle Volga region, Chapaevsky district: at the 1st congress of collective farms, the organizer of the collective farm "3rd International", a former farm laborer comrade. Glukhova; other collective farmers listen to it [1930s], Samara region: harvesting and delivery; carts with harvested grain, on the carts there are banners: “THE WHOLE HARVEST OF THE 1ST BOLSHEVITSKY SEVA WILL DELIVER ONLY TO THE STATE”; "KOLKHOZ" POBEDA "VILLAGE DMITRIEVKA", "AGRICULTURAL COMMUNE" KRASNAYA ZVEZDA "..."; "Feast of the first furrow" in the village of Sorochinskoye. 1941, Kuibyshev: a military parade on November 7, 1941, a member of the State Defense Committee (GKO), a representative of the headquarters for the formation of troops, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M.I. Kalinin, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kuibyshev Regional Council of Working People's Deputies N.N. Zhuravlev; infantry passes; armored tractors with artillery cannons are passing by; anti-aircraft machine gun installations with air defense fighters; there are tanks. 1941-1945, Kuibyshev: a workshop of a military plant, a poster with the NDP hangs: "EVERYTHING FOR THE FRONT ..."; hands collect weapons; the pilot sits in the cockpit of a new aircraft, takes off. 1970s-1980s, Moscow: [May Day] demonstration on Red Square in Moscow; 1970s-1980s, Kuibyshev newsreel studio: open-hearth shop, steel production ; weaving, underground mining; congratulations from the workers; meeting of the delegation; dance ensemble performance; pioneers lay flowers at the monument, stand on guard of honor. 1991, Samara: a rally at the White House, a protester gives an interview to a journalist; poster: "GORBACHEV ASSOCIATE OF KILLERS" in the hands of a Samarans.