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1963 - USSR Documentary: Russian Miracle, The Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221219-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1910s,1963

Country: Azerbaijan,Norway,Russia,USSR

Location: Baku,Dombas,Ivanova,Moscow

TC Begins: 21:00:00

TC Ends: 21:12:26

Duration: 00:12:26

Russian Miracle Pt. 3 of 3 Annelie & Andrew Thorndike Harvesting grain during starvation in Czarist Russia; animals supported by ropes. Winter w/ thatched roof used to feed stock and seeds to feed himself. Still photograph of Russian village w/ nearly roofless house. Peasant plowing w/ thin horse. Stills of village life. 21:02:21 Men working inside house. Stills of starving people in beds. Famine & people walking towards camera. Pullback from illustrations of USSR relief map. Stills of Baku. Oil owners w/ share certificates in French, English, German & Russian. Oil refinery or station owned by Nobel Brothers. Half installations owned by foreigners. Man working in flowing oil up to knees. 21:05:11 Stills of Dombas Coal Field w/ men moving tip carts. Stills. 9 of 10 Coal Mills owned by foreigners. Pan over Moscow smoking, steaming factories. Ivanova textile mills north of Moscow w/ men & women working. St. Petersburg w/ shipbuilding. Still photo: Alexander Putilov. Crane shot of naval & artillery gun barrels. 21:07:33 Still of workers in front of Labor Exchange. Miners into elevator in Dombas coal mine, thru underground tunnels. Picking at coal face, hammering to break coal & loading into sleds pushed & dragged by hand. Montage of stills of boss in easy chair and workers in factories. 21:09:56 Baku oil field & wooden derricks. Two men cranking winch for raising buckets to surface, others running mechanical winch & belt drive. Pan over wells & debris. Men drilling by hand on mud-caked platform. Tired worker w/ glazed eyes. Stills of village in Baku; stills of gold miner shack in Siberia. Huts in Central Asia. Kazak miner’s hut. 21:11:03 Film of workers living in Moscow & St. Petersburg. Inside house. Stills of miners living in Dombas. Ends abruptly, balance missing? Poverty; Czarist Russia; Working Conditions; Pre-Revolution; Labor; History; Historical Documentary; NOTE: Any continuos minute of film sold at per reel rate.

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