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Russian Famine 1921

Reel Number: 221061-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1921

Country: Russia

Location:

TC Begins: 03:04:25

TC Ends: 03:10:08

Duration: 00:05:43

Russian Famine 1921 Vars scenes depicting victims of famine some staged?: mother and child; emaciated man on bed watched over by wife & daughter. Young boy and men jostle for food from passing wagon. LS supplies unloaded at docks ? Ill-looking boy stretches out hand towards camera. Pan across group of children w/ men in military uniform - kids w/ shaved heads - orphans ? Relief efforts - collapsed men and young girl attended to. Man slumped over table; mother w/ lethargic looking child staring out window. Emaciated body of child on ground. Distressed & ill-looking boy; CU pulling ticks off chest. 03:07:11 VS large numbers of famine victims at outdoor camp - queuing for food - eating around camp fires. Grain poured from sack. LS body of child on riverbank. CU feet walking past dead bodies. INT bodies laid out in shed. 03:08:30 Relief camp - doctors giving skinny men medical examination. Brief shot of women posing next to ship in dock - ‘Marcus - Newark USA’. MCU Man points to map of famine-hit areas. Supply truck ‘American Relief Administration’. Sacks of grain unloaded at dock. Groups of young children in and around stationary train; truck packed w/ children drives past. 03:09:37 Brief shot of family leaving home ? Bodies being carried towards river. Family eating around stove in relief camp. Brief shot crowd at railway station ? USSR.

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