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1920s - USSR: Import & Export; Drought, Famine & Gleaning; Starvation & Migration.

Reel Number: 220678-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920s

Country: Russia,USSR

Location: Volga River

TC Begins: 13:26:54

TC Ends: 13:53:14

Duration: 00:26:20

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1920s - USSR: Import & Export; Drought, Famine & Gleaning; Starvation & Migration. Russian intertitle. 13:26:55 Pan large area of wooden oil derricks & buildings. 13:27:13 Intertitle. CU move into straw; bags of flour down chute & workers load onto wagons. Carrying sack onto ship & dumping grain into hold, men carry up gangway. 13:29:01 CU railroad engine driving wheel. 13:29:13 Russian titles. Railroad cars w/ large Ford crates away from ship at dock; unloading from freight cars. 13:29:40 Intertitle: Russian. 13:29:43 Montage: Grain loaded by auger into ship. Conveyor belt, auger. CU ship Greenwich & loading grain 13:30:22 Black 13:30:35 Drought w/ horse on ground; building boarded up. MLS of villages; deserted; people leaving w/ goods on wagons; buildings collapsing; old people & peasant families in village starving. CUs. People gleaning grain bundles in field. Group talking in field. 13:33:47 Man & woman on wagon w/ bundles of grain. Men around straw / grain pile w/ man buying. Threshing w/ horses in circle; women & men gleaning, picking wild grasses & ???. 13:35:18 Women walk to & around wagons of belonging; gleaning, threshing by hand. 13:36:17 Family outside tent & brush camp; cooking. Woman sleeping on ground w/ baby. Sunset. 13:37:12 MCU Winter, woman & crying baby, pan to building w/ name & large poster (?) of man breaking chains around wrists. Pan on across heads of pedestrians to railroad freight cars leaving in winter snow. POV across Volga & barges, small boats on beach, past farmland, village. 13:40:35 People huddled in winter coats beside building beside railroad tracks. MCU MOS peasant women to camera. 13:41:35 Summer, men & women pulling carts, belongings; family eating soup from large bucket. Cooking over small fires. Baby nursing; child eating; starved child. Other thin staving children standing listlessly. CUs children of all ages. Sitting outside municipal building. Soldier holding starved child. 13:46:41 Farm villagers lined up, kettles filled / served from soup wagon. 13:47:36 Women gleaning in field. Group talking in field. Standing around straw / grain pile w/ buyer. Couple in wagon w/ straw / grain bundles leaving. Women gleaning grain / grasses & ???. 13:49:24 Old villagers, peasant family visited by census takers or officials. CU swollen feet. 13:50:15 Villagers leaving w/ wagons & bundles. GOOD shots away from village. 13:50:52 Men fighting on plank getting onto riverboat. 13:51:00 Abandoned village wagon; boarded house & wooden windmill. Women & men gleaning, theshing by hand in field. Wagon; tent & brush village, cooking. Woman laying on ground, w/ child. 13:52:47 Drought w/ horse on ground. 13:53:00 Summer, men & women pulling carts, belongings. Ethnic; Post-Russian Revolution; 1920s; Starvation; Famine; NOTE: any continuous 13 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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