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New Town On The Volkhov, A

Reel Number: 221649-08

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: Russia,USSR

Location: Kirishi,Leningrad,Volga River

TC Begins: 05:10:53

TC Ends: 05:20:35

Duration: 00:09:42

A New Town On The Volkhov Leningrad Documentary Film Studios Kirishi scenes from river & new construction of the city on site of village destroyed in WWII. Petroleum & chemical plants & refineries, war memorial & construction. Apartment blocks, 05:12:17 Pedestrians walking in sun. Young population: women w/ strollers, women construction workers. Cu of woman engineer at refinery. Newly weds at City Hall greeted by councilwoman; laying flowers at war memorial. CUs of children, twins &/or brothers; swimming pool w/ murals. Ext. of school w/ kids giving flowers to teachers; marching into school. 05:15:02 Cranes & new high rise apartments. People walking, book store or library window & interior. Large supermarket & cash registers & women at checkout counter. 05:15:52 Gathering fish raised in warm ponds below the power station. Giant oil refinery ext. & interior of control room; chief of operations. Shots panning across pipes, CU of operator, cigarette in ash tray. Family in their apartment. 05:17:16 POV from in front of car traveling on highway and thru woods. Picking mushrooms. View along river. High angle shot across park area towards apartments. Mayor welcoming guests from Finland & meeting around table. Mayor speaks (SOF) w/ English over. Guests visiting thermo-nuclear power station. Interior shots; outside in wind. Narrator describing what director of oil refinery is saying about environmental protection from industrial waste: filtered water is collected in ponds for final biological filtering. Fish hatch eggs here & only clean water goes to Volkhov River. 05:18:55 People walking to Cultural Center, painters & sculptors working. Young girls doing folk dance in large gymnasium or auditorium. Playing spoons. 05:20:19 LS of city; & from boat on river. The End. Communist Life; Workers Paradise; Communism; Propaganda; Travelogue; Educational Film; 1970s; Atomic Energy; Note: Kirishi had a “green party” amongst educated work force of engineers & scientists that was at the center of early ecology protests in USSR ca 1980s due to PVC manufacturing & 1987 accident at PVC plant.

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