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Russia - Voting, Farms etc

Reel Number: 220885-23

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1947

Country: Russia

Location:

TC Begins: 02:27:17

TC Ends: 02:34:12

Duration: 00:06:55

Russia - Voting; Farms etc Queues outside building - men handing out leaflets. Man reading newspaper. Interiors people registering to vote at table. Given voting paper. Shots voting booth. Voters place paper in ballot box, room is covered in huge murals and portraits of Stalin. CU seal on ballot box. 02:28:44 Two children ice skating on frozen river. Men looking down ice holes for fish ? 02:29:04 Collective Farm / cattle market in snow. Woman fills trough from well. Horse drawn sleigh / cart loaded with hay. Russian peasant woman wearing headscarf feeding chickens. Farmer loading cart with hay. 02:30:12 People entering meeting house. Farmers and wives interviewed by State representatives. Clerk using abacus. 02:31:03 Tractor in snow going into shed. Tractor repairs - workshop. Engine on block and tackle. Man hitting tractor tracks with sledgehammer. 02:32:24 Two children climbing up snowy hill towards house. Shot from hill top of snowy terrain. Religious statue in foreground. 03:32:54 Russian Orthodox Church, parade - Cross carried. Priest reading to mass of women all wearing scarves in open air. 02:33:40 Interior church - priest with incense - Religious Service - line of women come to kiss crucifix. 02:34:07 Voting hall - short sequence votes in ballot box. USSR; Russian Daily Life; 1947; Post-WW2;

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