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Construction of the Moscow Volga Canal

Reel Number: 220936-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1933

Country: Russia

Location: MOSCOW VOLGA CANAL

TC Begins: 05:25:04

TC Ends: 05:32:02

Duration: 00:06:58

Construction of the Moscow Volga Canal - forced labour Scenes of prisoners carrying out hard labour in snow; scenes inside gulag, prisoners barracks showing clean beds, hygienic conditions and good food; interior general views of female prisoners during mathematics lesson; interior general views art class; night scenes prisoners rush from barracks to stop water damage with sand bags. Exterior and interior general views “the Stalin Heavy Industrial Plant” showing manufacturer parts of the Moscow Volga canal Tracking shot along canal construction site showing mechanised diggers, prisoners working 05:30:54 Steam freight train towards camera, up and past. Men looking through bars of cattle truck. Prisoners out of train and marched to camp. Gates closed.

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