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WWI - Russian Military Preparation & Fighting; Celebrating; Wounded Returned Home

Reel Number: 220504-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914-1918,1910s

Country: Russia

Location: St. Petersburg

TC Begins: 10:46:16

TC Ends: 11:04:00

Duration: 00:17:44

WWI - Russian Military Preparation & Fighting; Celebrating; Wounded Returned Home Blimps / barrage balloons carried by troops along dirt road, then on field moved into place & released 10:48:09 Well-dressed crowds at horse races in front of large elaborate covered grandstand. 10:48:33 Troops at attention on field parade; training w/ gun mounted on tripod. 10:49:09 Soldiers w/ rifles & dog on field, fall on ground, point & talk. 10:49:32 Russian cavalry maneuvers on horseback, riding past camera standing up. 10:50:04 Tsar & others off launch; Tsar inspects troops. Tsar and family in carriages past troops at attention. 10:51:19 Pan over crowd gathered in front of Winter Palace, cheering; tilt up to flag on pole above building & back down to crowd waving. 10:51:57 Soldier w/ flag to Priest at podium in front of Kremlin; soldiers take oath. Kiss bible; kiss flag. 10:53:17 Tsar inspects troops at Kremlin. 10:53:54 Military march past. 10:54:31 Troops walk motorcycles past camera, followed by military vehicles past Kremlin. 10:55:43 Troops & marching band down wide street / beside square; camera behind line of light poles, troops pass both sides. 10:56:25 Women folk dances next to railway train before troops depart. 10:57:13 Troops in trenches & behind berms firing rifles - advance. 10:57:43 Russian officers & Tsar walking past log barracks; German General (captured?) beside railroad cars. Orders posted on notice board & read. 10:58:43 Tsar inspects troops. Religious services in field w/ troops, priests, choir or signing. Troops leave, march down road. 11:00:15 Troops by artillery emplacements & in trenches, MCU drinking tea; soldier using periscope, soldier using field telephone. Cannons / gun firing. 11:01:44 Cossack dancing by troops in street (scratched); celebrations. 11:02:23 Soldiers in foggy conditions, some on horseback near tall cross, stones & grave. 11:03:09 Wounded carried from railway car - into carriages & trams. (at 11:03:22 time code reverses). Russian Homefront; 1910s; WW1; Royalty; NOTE: 11:01:44 matches 11:01:51 on 220505.

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