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1930s - USSR Gulag: Slave Labor Into Camps; Digging White Sea - Baltic Canal

Reel Number: 220137-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1930s

Country: Russia,USSR

Location: Siberia,White Sea - Baltic Canal

TC Begins: 01:44:48

TC Ends: 01:51:49

Duration: 00:07:01

1930s - USSR Gulag: Slave Labor Into Camps; Digging White Sea - Baltic Canal (?) 01:44:48 LS from bluff across wooden warehouses & docks to harbor. 01:44:53 Men carry belongings marched under guard up road, women following w/ bags. MS entering compound w/ wooden fence topped w/ barbed wire under sign CCCP...; gates closed behind. 01:45:40 Flash title: ??? 01:45:41 View along planked area between row of barracks, men walking. 01:45:53 Flash title: ??? 01:45:54 Large group of men w/ suitcases & bundles of belongs marched under guard past three story white building; some women. Marching past stone fortress / building on sandy beach or shoreline, into compound. 01:46:32 Flash title: ??? 01:46:33 Two women at table talking in small well-furnished room. BRIEF. 01:46:35 View into prison (?) stone hallway w/ guards saluting. 01:46:48 CU steam whistle. BRIEF. 01:46:49 Men & women at table in log building looking at paperwork. Guarded men walking / marching w/ shovels, across wooden log bridge, up dirt road to quarry. 01:47:11 Flash title: ??? Men working in rocky ground w/ water beyond, wheeling wheelbarrows. 01:47:16 Flash title: ??? Many men in heavy coats & mittens working. 01:47:23 Flash title: ??? Many man digging, exposing & breaking rocks. Band playing near men working. 01:47:51 Title: ??? CU & MS breaking rocks, loading on wagon. 01:48:24 Title: ??? Horse team pulling wagon w/ rocks. 01:48:37 Title: ??? Men breaking rocks w/ banner visible / legible: ??? LS & MS many men working, pushing wheelbarrows & pulling carts. Gather banners & leave. 01:49:37 CUs Soviet officers looking from bridge at canal excavation; men shoveling in mud & water, filling wheelbarrows. CU feet moving mud. 01:50:23 Flash title. Men pry loose large boulder; breaking & removing. LS snow, large wheels turning over excavation. Title: ??? Four wooden support towers & turning wheels of cable & steam pile driver operating. Line of piles on side of canal; crane moving large stones. Primitive conveyor moving stones. 1930s Russian Forced Labor; Convicts; Cold; Winter; NOTE: This may or may not be the White Sea Canal which opened 02Aug33.

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