900 Unforgettable Days (1964) Pt. 3 of 5

900 Unforgettable Days (1964) Pt 3 of 5 00:20:06 High view of Leningrad, guard on high post w/ binoculars. Voluntary troops incl. women march thru streets. CU pillboxes guard city. Trams last stop at front line, people get off. Scenes of destroyed rail line, burned house. From Pulkovo observatory views of destruction. Pan over city. 00:21:12 May, inside city vegetable gardens planted & hoed w/ guns behind. 00:21:34 Physical training day in Leningrad, different groups parade w/ flags, in uniforms, on bicycles past applauding crowd. Soccer game in small stadium watched by troops & civilians. 00:22:24 People go to work, enter building, sign. Military training for civilians. All factories work on army supplies, mines, shells, machine gun belts, grenades. Women working. 00:23:15 Poster - order for all Leningrad's citizens to go on firewood collection. Women carry big trees , people load wood on to lorry truck. Bomb blasts few yards away, all run. Wood sawed, wooden house pulled down & demolished for materials. 00:23:49 Torpedo loaded onto submarine. Baltic sailors arrive on small ships. Soviet submarine interior, unexpectedly attack w/ torpedo; thru periscope see ship hit. Soviet soldiers, covered in camouflage of branches creep up to enemy, shoot down sniper from tree. 00:25:54 German soldiers move to storm Leningrad. Boats on river, lots of explosions, bombs, guns, soldiers run thru fields, lots of shooting. Boats on water, planes. War prisoners taken. CUs. POWs. 00:27:21 Barrage balloon over city scenes, people on streets. Premier of musical “Wide, wide sea” hall full of audience, people in coats listen to soldier singing, artists performance, applaud. 00:28:44 Printing plant, poetess Vera Inber checks work in progress of her poetic chronicle -”Pulkovo Meridian” about the defense of the city. 00:29:09 Poet Nikolai Tikhonov at table w/ army officer reads his poem, ‘Kirov Is With Us’ (MOS). 00:29:24 Tank convoy across snowy field. Animated map of attack. Battle field, big explosions. Soldiers in special cold resistant winter suits. Happy news received w/ note that Soviet troops in other fronts continue attack. Battle continues ,troops run thru snowy fields. Animated map shows how Leningrad blockade was broken on River Neva; crossing on ice. Fighting. 00:31:28 18Jan43 Soldiers hang out flag over city. Armies of Leningrad & Volkov fronts joined, hug, kiss, cheer. WWII Russian Front; Fighting; Leningrad; Lake Ladoga Victory; Winter Hardship; Horrors of War;