Fulfilling Lenin’s Behests R1 of 5
Moscow Central Documentary Film Studios English narration
02:00:55 Moscow - Kremlin & Red Square in Summer, flowers outside Lenin’s mausoleum - high shot long queue of people lined up waiting to enter - closer shots people in queue inc. Black man.
02:02:41 Titles.
02:03:10 Battleship, gun fired. Crowd scene from October (?) - storming of Winter Palace gates. Smolny Institute; INT Lenin’s study preserved as it was. Stills & portraits of Lenin. Farmland turned w/ plow.
02:04:57 Uzbekistan - arid land. CU man w/ handful of dry soil, VO re early irrigation programme initiated by Lenin for Steppe region. Good 1920s (?) shots of Uzbek workers celebrating start of irrigation programme - musicians lead procession thru village - many workers digging canal. Ribbon cutting, opening ceremony, water floods through canals & ditches. Some shots may be staged / feature extracts?
02:06:50 Modern-day construction site in desert, pouring concrete for canals. Aerial views of canals w/ dams & reservoirs as “Hungry Steppe” transformed into green farmland. Aerials over farms.
02:08:30 Uzbek ? cotton growers in desert surveying land; walk past irrigated farmland; new homes being built for workers. Industrial landscape. Farmer opens holes in irrigating pipe thru field, water pours into irrigation ditches; young son swims in irrigation canal. Growers check crop in field.
Russia / USSR; Travelogues; Extreme Weather; Farming / Agriculture; Communism; Water;
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Fulfilling Lenin’s Behests R1 of 5 Moscow Central Documentary Film Studios English narration 02:00:55 Moscow - Kremlin & Red Square in Summer, flowers outside Lenin’s mausoleum - high shot long queue of people lined up waiting to enter - closer shots people in queue inc. Black man. 02:02:41 Titles. 02:03:10 Battleship, gun fired. Crowd scene from October (?) - storming of Winter Palace gates. Smolny Institute; INT Lenin’s study preserved as it was. Stills & portraits of Lenin. Farmland turned w/ plow. 02:04:57 Uzbekistan - arid land. CU man w/ handful of dry soil, VO re early irrigation programme initiated by Lenin for Steppe region. Good 1920s (?) shots of Uzbek workers celebrating start of irrigation programme - musicians lead procession thru village - many workers digging canal. Ribbon cutting, opening ceremony, water floods through canals & ditches. Some shots may be staged / feature extracts? 02:06:50 Modern-day construction site in desert, pouring concrete for canals. Aerial views of canals w/ dams & reservoirs as “Hungry Steppe” transformed into green farmland. Aerials over farms. 02:08:30 Uzbek ? cotton growers in desert surveying land; walk past irrigated farmland; new homes being built for workers. Industrial landscape. Farmer opens holes in irrigating pipe thru field, water pours into irrigation ditches; young son swims in irrigation canal. Growers check crop in field. Russia / USSR; Travelogues; Extreme Weather; Farming / Agriculture; Communism; Water;