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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221492-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: Armenia,East Germany,Russia,USSR
Location: Aladetsky,Armenia,East Berlin,GORKI,Murom
TC Begins: 03:36:14
TC Ends: 03:46:45
Duration: 00:10:31
1949 - USSR Newsreel: Novosti Dnia - No. 31 03:37:37 “Towards Day of Railway - Big Speed Master” Locomotive engineer in Gorki hailed for setting a new speed record. Railroad signal, engineer In cab blows whistle, train pulls out of station w/ tractors. Shots of train along track, INT driver in cab - train passes another; signalman. Two men w/ hand machine inspecting rails & reading track for problems; train races past. Drops load in station. Other freight cars past. Engineer & crew met by reception committee. 03:38:41 Title: New textile machines help men & women set new output record. Loom control. Older methods shown w/ women packing yarn by hand. 03:40:17 Title: Large hogs in fields on pig farm in Murom; women roasting acorns (?). Feeding & scrubbing pigs. Pigs in wallow. Men studying sheep grazing on Collective Farm in Aladetsky, Armenia. Scientific methods of agriculture. 03:42:29 Title: Large sawmill & factory for prefabricated housing. Assembling panels & constructing houses. Finished home shown w/ dining room, kitchen, bathroom. Houses in place. 03:43:42 Title: World Congress of Writers at Moscow Academy of Music honors Pablo Neruda (MCU) applauding audience. Tikinov (sp?) & others named. Peter Blackman (?) 03:44:42 Neruda speaking (SOF) in Spanish w/ Russian translation over. 03:45:20 “Youth In Fight For Peace” East Berlin, East Germany - 3rd Youth Congress for Peace in Leipzig. Young people parade thru streets w/ flags & banners of Marx & Stalin. Top shot crowds in Karl Marx Platz. 03:46:03 Eric Honecker (?) making animated speech at mic MOS, good close ups at podium. 03:46:26 President Wilhelm Pick & Soviet delegate Ostavinand also make speeches (MOS). Flags of various countries seen in crowd. The End. Russia / USSR; Post-WWII; Communism; Eastern Europe; Quotas; Stalinism; Farming; Housing Production; Authors; Awards; Political Propaganda; Cold War; Post-WW2 Politics; Communists;