Port of Five Seas Part 1

Port of Five Seas Part 1 Film re Russia’s 2nd Five Year Plan & canal construction - English intertitles throughout. Spinning globe w/ USSR. Animated map showing industrial growth - steam train - map showing water routes - canals and routes into Moscow 09:59:06 White Sea - Baltic Canal - Shots showing the terrain through which the canal would have to be built - ancient villages - Karelia region. Workers marching off to work. Photographs of people entrusted with building the canal - they were previously “ wreckers “. Shots of “tools” used in their criminal activities. 10:01:55 Logs on river - river churning. Forced labour - breaking up rocks. Factories building equipment. Rocks moved by primitive conveyor. 10:03:18 Printing press. Outdoor meeting. Recreation and re-education. Inmates of gulag learning to read & write and given technical training. Construction work. Band playing whilst work is done. Breaking up rock face. Communism. (Belomor - aka White Sea Canal, or Baltic Canal)