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900 Unforgettable Days (1964) Pt. 4 of 5

Reel Number: 221189-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1943

Country: Russia,USSR

Location: Leningrad

TC Begins: 00:32:01

TC Ends: 00:42:40

Duration: 00:10:39

900 Unforgettable Days (1964) Pt 4 of 5 People w/ smiles read posters on walls. Meetings held in Leningrad. In ammunition factory meeting woman makes speech. Newspaper kiosk. 00:32:54 POV from first train, greeted on arrival after city freed from fascists. Shots of other freight trains & supplies. People on snowy streets. Night over city, siege continues, men load plane w/ bombs, trucks on road across lake. Guns fired. steel mill working, camouflaged armored train leaving. 00:34:43 Army troops in field, medals for the Defence of Leningrad given to soldiers, workers & other heroes in front line, factories, scientific laboratories etc. Young 13 year-old boy gets medal, makes speech (SOF) thanks his father who was killed by enemy & swears revenge. Women troops march on streets, flashback on work they did on blockade, railway, felling timber in the woods, shoveling, etc. 00:37:13 Tram, 1943 Leningraders work on rebuilding city, roads laid, roofs repaired, tram lines put in place, reroofing & rebuilding. 00:37:43 Launch of new ship named after hero - Vladimir Poluhin. Man checks train & it leaves. 00:38:16 Children at school, disrupted by sirens. Sign on wall warning that during artillery fire this street side is most dangerous. Siren played on loudspeakers thru city, guards on lookout posts. Fire engines thru street. Smoke out of buildings. Fire fighters rush, put out huge fire, dead body on ground. Big explosions all around city, many injured. Explosions of buildings. People in street, bodies on stretchers. Dead onto trucks.Soviet troops try to divert fire from city on to their own artillery. Lots of shooting, explosions. Women solders carry unexploded bomb out of building. People clear street. Scenes of damaged buildings. Barrage balloon thru city on truck. Cleaning up. Destruction. WWII Russian Front; Battle of Leningrad; Siege of Leningrad; Fighting;

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