Summary

b&w newsreel - USSR - Five Year Plan - program for Industrial Revolution - electrification - railroad construction - improvement of transportation - c/u truck drives on snowy country road lined with reindeer - h/a down to city in Asian (Asiatic) Russian republic - people, peasants, camels on street - c/u Russian peasant woman looks out of window - ornate wooden carved window frame - architecture h/a down to workers finishing of the Turkestan Siberian railroad - workers lay down track - workmen of various cultures celebrate - construction - men shake hands - c/u man in cap waves cap, men cheer - American engineer (wears suit and tie, hat) receives the banner of labor - Asian horsemen / Siberians wear heavy winter coats, hats, ride horses through river - c/u two Asian women on horseback - c/u Asian older man with white beard - first improved train on journey - movpov h/a down over moving train through rural area or countryside - c/u up angle to two Asian men w/ fur hats - repeat of movpov from train - men rafting - Dnieper River Hydro Electric plant under construction w/s h/a down to dam site - large cranes, equipment container of wet cement lowered and turned over by workers - w/s energy plant - c/u hammers rivets into metal - c/u construction worker wears goggles, smokes cigarette, has mustache and beard - h/a down to large circular metal structure of plant - up angle to transformers, smoke stacks smoking - interior plant - large turbines - exterior plant - establish transformers, lines, w/s and other angles - h/a down dust, night scenes of plant lighted city - exterior factory or plant at night - workers smoke - c/u crane worker - c/u suspended container being lowered - completed Chaturka station near Moscow - Soviet Russia - industry - transportation