Summary

RUSSIAN HISTORICAL FOOTAGE

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Title: RUSSIAN HISTORICAL FOOTAGE
File Number: MWM-25 Beta SP
Color: B W Color
Type: Documentary
Year: 1940s, 1990s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1938 - 1941 Films recount USSR history through newsreel footage. WWII. Hitler and Stalin FOOTAGE 1938-1941. Narration in Russian. Montage and cross cut effects throughout film 00:00:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls Air balloons carry up giant picture-posters of Stalin and others Hitler stands in open limo and salutes back to cheering, saluting crowds lining streets of motorcade procession vast crowd hears him speak to them and call for the "Seig Heil" salute crowds break out & sing anthem formations of Russian soldiers & sailors parade in Red Square CU Stalin on reviewing stand Blimp in flight series of battle scenes... stukas attack bombs fall near tanks night artillery barrage burning building falls 00:05:00:00 B W 1939 ms ls VS German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin, and V. Molotov sign German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact or Treaty (Aug.23, 1939) people dancing in streets (happy about peace) German soldiers march, tanks roll, war planes in flight formation air attack great shot of falling bombs ground explosions burning build - ings Russian soldiers mobilize for war 00:10:00:00 B W 1938 ms ls VS Neville Chamberlain & Hitler sign pact in Munich (Sept 30, 1938) - Hitler reviews troops Neville Chamberlain leaves home Hitler & Mussolini at big crowd turnout Stalin puffs pipe German & Russian officers, shake hands and salute each other building in flames German actress, sexy and sultry chorus girls march on stage and segway into German soldiers goosestepping...VS crosscut shots of goosetepping Germans and civilian hostages...a lineup of Jewish civilian prisoners 00:15:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls VS German atrocities toward civilians: PAN dead, murdered corpses on ground ceremonial & salute to wartime hero VS destroyed bridge, buildings, and streets VS crosscut shots between German teen age fire brigade extinguishing a fire & German fighter pilot attacking a merchant ship cameramen on top of fast moving cars follow Hitler's limo...Hitler stops to greet some babies held by Gestapo cadre young boy gives fervent 'heil' salute smiling Stalin walks to applause WS Soviet soldiers 00:20:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ls ms Railroad freight train carries tanks VS crosscut shots between Hitler & Stalin: Hitler salutes from bridge of warship... reviews German navy woman embraces and kisses a smiling Stalin Hitler motorcade children play war games at castle ruins CU elderly peasant woman takes aim behind a rifle Soviet military parade cheering Germans waving flags crosscut Soviet & German soldiers 00:25:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls VS warfare: Railroad locomotive about to ride over CAM tank knocks down trees murdered child next to dead mother bombs from plane released bomb blast buildings collapse AV scene of burning city on fire Soviet soldier sentries on border VS troops & tanks occupy country (Poland ?) German marching band good cross cut shots as bombs fall from plane on ground targets and children sing in school - also they continue to sing (on sound track) as occupying German troops march 00:30:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ls ms VS warfare: Landmark building burning and in flames Soviet troops Soviet tanks to the front...peasant women wave them on troop convoy airmen listen to war message civilians run to shelters when air raid siren sounds antiaircaft guns fire at enemy planes LS plane, shot down, crashes ship on fire VS Soviet soldiers & material killed and ruined in the war zone (sad song on soundtrack) Gestapo troops march...young children on sidewalk give 'heil' salute Hitler lays wreath at ceremony cross cut - Soviet & German soldiers eat rations Soviet soldiers folk dance together 00:35:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ls ms Hitler reviews vast formations of his troops at solemn memorial ceremony CU head of helmeted German soldier CU CU Adolf looking on Hitler stands alone and in the open,surrounded by thousands WS swastika banners Hitler walks to lay wreath - (CUT AT 0:36:30 - AND AT 0:36:49 FOOTAGE REPEATS AGAIN FROM 0:35:00) 00:38:23:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ls ms CU German flag VS Hitler makes speeches...cross cut - German soldiers make salutes and give pledges to their Fuehrer Soviet sailors man battle stations 00:40:00:00 B W 1940 ms ls Civilians listen to radio report HA vast civilian rally listens to speaker (Lenin banner) Soviet soldiers cast ballots cross cut shots - Hitler & Stalin meet the people and "vote" by ballot. HA vast formations of soldiers & tanks Stalin & Molotov on balcony Hitler visits Paris after its conquest...stands at Eiffel Tower...German flag hoisted over it VS Hitler appears at French surrender (June 22, 1940) 00:45:00:00 B W 1939 ms ls Mussolini contorts face & mugs...vast crowd cheers him HA formation of Soviet troops in Red Square in winter...they parade Russo-German Non Agression Pact of June, 1939 - stills Russian military parade scene of mass murder of prisoners in Riga, Latvia Russian landscape and countryside (woman sings sadly on soundtrack) 00:50:00:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls VS Katyn Forest Massacre: People dig mass graves loving family pictures taken from belongings of the dead PAN remains of murdered scene of atrocity 00:53:38:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls Stalin & Molotov review parade in Red Square good shot of armored car Hitler reviews vast field of military formations, riding in open limo. Great shot of stands filled with thousands of people giving the "heil" salute bombers in flight...bomb blasts on ground anti- aircraft gun fires Hitler looks at air show German infantry & artillery put on military show ***including a well executed mass tank maneuver in stadium bomber formation in flight bombs fall to targets below Stalin takes a drink (water or Vodka ?) bombs explode on ground Stalin speaks people listen to him on loudspeaker 00:55:55:00 B W 1940s, 1990s ms ls PAN dead bodies of civilians lined up on ground Crosscuts - German soldier using a flamethrower, silhoutted at night by flames & CU Stalin continuing to speak CU dead civilians include mother & child pile of dead bodies German concentration or death camp showing barb wire warplanes swoop overhead tanks roll through burning village VS captured and dead Russian civilians and POWs dead Holocaust victims German warplane dives & attacks enemy airfield horried scene of dead bodies swaying under hangman's rope VS von Ribbentrop CU Molotov & ***and an excellent study shot of Stalin - to close.
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