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221275 01:01:13 - 01:10:45 SD B/W

Red Myth, The: #3, Theory & Tactics of Bolshevism On The March Pt. 1 of 3
National Educational Television credits w/ flames burning paper of title The Red Myth
Actors as Marx & Engels talking, writing. Book shelf. Hoover Institute’s Assistant Director Whitold Sworakowsky introduces.
01:02:46 Staged 1903 London Party Congress w/ Mensheviks & Bolsheviks split.
01:03:41 Russian Social Democratic Party w/ Lenin & Plekhanov of Iskra debate policy & leaves Iskra to Mensheviks.
CU Trotsky writing. MS dictating to wife, Krupskaya.
01:07:00 Sworakowsky lectures w/ chart of communist geneology.
01:08:14 1905 Revolution shown w/ photo, paintings, illustrations. Murders, arrests, fighting. Fleet w/ Potemking mutiny. Food shortages.
01:09:06 Lenin & wife; visitor arrives & Lenin says uprising is necessary.

221275 01:10:45 - 01:20:21 SD B/W

Red Myth, The: #3, Theory & Tactics of Bolshevism On The March Pt. 2 of 3
01:10:45 Sworakowsky lectures.
01:11:44 Illustrations of 1905 November w/ soldiers returning home, peasants uprising. Moscow printer strike igniting broader strike. Photos & illustrations, maps. St. Petersburg
01:13:49 Actors w/ Trotsky in St. Petersburg organizing Social Democrats, writing & giving orders. Czar giving in for a constitution.
01:19:06 Photo of Czar’s troops. Illustrations of arrests leading to strike collapse & end of 1905 Revolution.
01:19:39 Sworakowsky lectures.

220678 13:16:39 - 14:08:05 SIL B/W Early Russia 1921
INCLUDING:

Part 4
13:54:48 Trotsky getting on train; talking to soldiers and band standing on platform
13:56:08 POV train journey through snow
13:57:26 Trotsky reviews Red Army during Civil War
14:00:03

220936 06:04:41 - 06:09:07 19 ? SIL B/W Civil War
Queues in street, cossacks, military vehicles along snowy roads. VS fighting in snowy conditions using machine guns and small artillery. Trotsky with troops. Armed sailors march - Kronstadt?? Trotsky addresses. Car stopped and papers checked. Various fighting scenes between Reds and Whites. Sailors at soup wagon. Explosions, machine gun.

220309 12:54:21 - 13:06:12 1905 - 1960s Sd b/w
INCLUDING:
13:01:58 - March 1917 demonstration in St Petersburg, Czar troops turn on demonstrators, then army cheering with protesters. A.F. Kerensky speech, dubbed into English. Political prisoners freed. Speeches gesticulating. Lenin. Trotsky. Kerensky head of provisional government. Newspapers printed. Women’s parade. Protest. Lenin speech dubbed into English re class war. Workers or soldiers digging field with shovels. Monument toppled. Crowds running and storming winter palace (staged).
Nov : Lenin, restless people in street. Trotsky’s Red Army marching. Old woman making speech. Civilian protest against election dismissal, still of Lenin superimposed.

220675 07:40:05 - 07:42:28 1910s Sd/Sil B/W

[Misc. Revolutionary Personalities]
Part English narration. Zinoviev at Funeral. Kamenev smoking. Zinoviev making speech by Kremlin wall. Train (early) wheels passing over camera. May Day 1917 - Lenin making animated speech. Trotsky returns from exile - speaking from train.
[NB FIilm badly damaged by nitrate decomposition.]
Russia / USSR. Communist Party.

220675 08:05:03 - 08:12:20 1910s - 1924 - 1937 - 1940s ? - 1961 Sd/Sil B/W

[Misc. USSR: Lenin Funeral - Stakhanovites - Trotsky In Mexico - 22nd Party Congress]
INT Lenin funeral 1924 - body lying in state - CU Stalin - CU body of Lenin - other CUs inc. Kalinin & Voroshilov.
08:06:10 Grain sacks being counted and checked - loaded onto barge. Mining underground 1930s - miner w/ drill - sign in Russian re miner who achieved / exceeded yearly target - miner out of mine entrance & applauded - Stakhanov ?
08:07:05 Red Square parade 1940s? - English narration starts re 1937 Purges - Stalin on mausoleum w/ Molotov, Beria et al.
08:07:47 Trotsky in exile, Mexico: Trotsky w/ wife - in group inc. Frida Kahlo w/ police guard - brief shot Trotsky [face obscured] & Diego Rivera - CU Frida Kahlo & Trotsky’s wife - CU Trotsky. Trotsky making anti-Stalin speech in English as at 07:43:50 - “...warm thanks to the Mexican people...monstrous and absurd accusations were hurled at me and my family [in Norway]...false confessions extorted by modern inquisitorial methods...” - mentions show trial of Zinoviev & Kamenev & “irresponsible despotism” - “I have nothing to hide...” - promises to make available private papers to expose the “Moscow frame-ups” - “a counter-trial is necessary...” - says GPU has fallen to level of Nazi Gestapo - “...there is not a stain on my honour”. [NB Small chance this is a Trotsky impersonator but background matches that seen in earlier shots w/ Kahlo.]
08:11:35 22nd Soviet Party Congress 1961 - Khruschev applauded onto stage - VO re Kruschev repeating Trotsky’s accusations against Stalin - Ho Chi Minh present?

220309 13:06:12 - 13:17:37 1910s - 1940s Sd b/w

Narration by James Cagney
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Gives brief history of Communism.
13:06:12 Russian Civil war fight in snow. Troops on horses. Still Tzar’s family w/ hammer and sickle superimposed. Secret police searching suspects. Firing squad. Lenin with cat, dubbed in English. Dora Kaplan, newspaper headlines re assassination attempt. Red army parade?
Map of world,
Kronstadt 1921, people dragging corpses out of mass grave. CU corpses w/ hammer& sickle superimposed. Military. Lenin, Trotsky. Stalin. Farmers w/ machines in field, wheat, buying food at shop, weighing grain. Herbert Hoover re aid to Russia. Children eating. Headlines re Lenin stroke. Lenin dead. Lenin funeral in snow.
Stalin. Five year plan. Men at work on railway line, lugging wood, heavy industry, quarry, factories and smoke, machinery. Agriculture, building houses, factory work, train (narrator says to Siberia), factory boss congratulating workers. Dignitaries in line.
Trials, courtroom scenes re mass executions. Still Stalin former allies w/ hammer & sickle superimposed. Trials, still of executed man.
13:12:45 Coyoacan 1940: re Leon Trotsky assassination.
Wehrmacht marching, Hitler speech. Popular front demo still. News headlines. Molotov & Ribbentrop meet.
13:13:51 Planes drop bombs re Poland invaded by Germany. Soviet tanks & army invade Poland - stagey footage w/ snow - not September invasion? Cartoon Hitler & Stalin w/ Poland corpse.
13:14:39 Soviet icebreaker. Fighting at sea. French plane sabotaged by French Communists. Nazi troops march through Champs Elysées. German guns and cannons fired, explosions re invasion of Russia. Russian soldier surrenders. Map Russia with arrows to Stalingrad, shows territories Russia expanded into after war.
Troops marching. Tanks. Crowd cheering, parade. Industry. Troops running on barren land. Artillery, tanks. submarine, woman on stretcher, refugee.

220674 06:19:05 - 06:29:16 1910s ? - 1920s SIL B/W

[Misc. USSR - Georgian Scenes - War Atrocities]
1929? Overview town set in valley; two men on horseback; GVs Georgian landscape - rocky mountain road; vars shots & CUs of peasants; INT men drink toast; LS monastery. POV down winding road. High shots across town on banks of river; vars street scenes. Oil rig on the water. More street scenes; band playing at outdoor restaurant; CU woman eating; CU old Georgian woman; POV tracking shot along street w/ carts
06:23:02 Construction site / quarry - shot blasting
06:23:24 Trotsky w/ unid. man, both in uniform. Dead bodies strewn on the ground; line of naked corpses around courtyard; men carry body on stretcher & put it into line w/ other bodies; CUs bodies; CU dead man slumped in corner; digging up mass graves; bodies carried out of grave; human limbs poking out of earth; people stand looking at grave. More bodies. Women in courtyard - waiting to identify bodies? INT cellar where people murdered? Bodies laying in undergrowth. CU men’s faces.
06:28:03 GVs people milling around; walking along street; crowd cheering soldiers as they march through town.

220674 06:29:18 - 06:37:31 1910s ? - 1920s SIL B/W

[Misc. USSR - First 5-Year-Plan - Parades - Famine]
INCLUDING:

06:36:29 CU cobbler mending a shoe, people watching him
06:36:38 Lenin giving speech - side shot & brief front CU.
06:36:53 Trotsky [in leather jacket, trousers & cap] & young boy standing on prow of ship as it sails. Brief shot [future?] Soviet officials in army uniform, one speaking - inc. very young looking Voroshilov.
06:37:06 Famine - people selling possessions at street market; old lady standing on street selling her wares; digging for roots in the snow; GVs street market.

220674 06:47:24 - 06:55:57 1910s ? - 1940s SD B/W

[Misc. USSR - Red Army Out Of Korea - Famine - Parades - Stalin’s Mother]
Excerpts w/ English narration. Russian troops withdrawing from North Korea - Korean civilians wave them off - soldiers packed onto train waving flowers. Mao out of train in Moscow? - greeted by Molotov.
06:47:49 Burning of Brest-Litovsk, Belarus [WWI?] - troops through smoke on horseback - civilians w/ horsedrawn carriages - houses on fire [shots repeated].
06:49:20 Short sequences vars Russian personalities incl. Lenin & Trotsky making speeches.
06:50:15 Beggar / woman trying to sell underwear - street scenes - shoppers look in windows - trams. - street market.
06:51:04 Depression / Famine scenes - men on street corners - beggars. Busy market.
06:51:49 Various Stalin - parades & meetings - inc. huge inflatable? Stalin head unfurled & carried aloft by balloon - Stalin & Voroshilov look up. Another parade w/ Stalin banners. Stalin, Molotov et al wave from top of mausoleum - anti-Trotsky cartoon banners in crowd - top shot Red Square. 20th anniversary parade ‘38.
06:53:24 Georgia - Stalin’s mother Ekaterina Geladze walks down steps of palace in Tbilisi. Old man who was formerly a prince & wine grower. Vars old Georgian men - VO re wine of region.
06:54:27 Crowds at railway station - hurry along platform towards camera. Women & children walk away from camp where men watch behind barbed wire.
06:54:55 Women working at teletype machines & telephone exchange.
06:55:14 Meeting - men seated round table.
06:55:30 Stalin looking younger w/ Molotov & Kalinin; later shot of Stalin & Molotov waving from platform.
06:55:38 Early shots of soldiers on horseback & marching w/ rifles. Trotsky salutes w/ flag.

220766 21:34:08 - 21:44:12 1914 - 1918 SIL B/W

WWI - Newsreel Excerpts
INCLUDING:

21:41:46 Revolutionary demonstration - leaflets handed out; Trotsky ? addresses troops
21:42:19 Petain ceremony, kisses lady & child Military manoeuvres? Railway gun - shells in freight cars. Big guns firing. Smoke and huge explosions, some CU Battle scenes.
21:43:24 French among ruins - bomb damaged buildings. French ceremony. Re-establish interior of movie theatre.

220675 07:42:35 - 07:52:05 1914 - 1937 c Sd/Sil B/W

[Misc. USSR: WWI - Russian Revolution - Trotsky Speech - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]
Pre-revolution Russian industry scenes - steelworks. WWI dead - soldiers. Civilian war effort.
07:43:11 Freeing prisoners from jail in post-Revolution Petrograd - men wave hats at camera.
07:43:50 Trotsky [or impersonator] making anti-Stalin statement from exile in Mexico c1937 [speaking in English] - “...monstrous and absurd accusations were hurled at me and my family...false confessions extorted by modern inquisitorial methods...” - mentions show trial of Zinoviev & Kamenev - “I have nothing to hide...a counter-trial is necessary...there is not a stain on my honour”.
07:47:22 [Si.] Poor tatty peasants - women doing manual labour & washing clothes. Wounded soldiers out of back of cart - casualties.
07:48:17 Dead bodies in snow - cart pulls up & men dump more bodies
07:48:50 1917 - Crowds milling around square - CU crowd cheering - leaflets handed out - marching for the democratic republic. Mass funeral Mars Field - Exiles welcomed back from Siberia - Militia replaces Tsarist police - Bearded man makes speech about democracy [MOS]. Executive Committee of Workers & Soldiers Soviet - Soviet Mensheviks - rival to Provisional Government.
07:51:40 Trotsky & Bolshevist representatives arrive at Brest-Litovsk 1918 - greeted by German delegation w/ spiked helmets [Karl Radek & Adolph Joffe present?].

X221492 03:59:53 - 04:12:26 1914-1918 SD B/W

The War to End All Wars (195?) Pt. 4 of 4
Lenin in various situations some with Krupskaya.
04:00:22 Trotsky speaks (MOS) from train, Trotsky with troops.
04:00:51 Stalin making speech (MOS).
04:01:03

220879 13:51:26 - 14:01:45 1917 SD B/W

[Stock Newsreel Excerpts]
INCLUDING:

13:56:41 LS Kremlin - Last appearance of Tsar Nicholas with his family - son Alexis, daughters and Czarina.
Russian front - Cossacks march through snow - wounded soldiers return. Kerensky. Scenes from the Russian revolution - crowds and mayhem in streets. Russian army demonstration in support of Bolshevism. Trotsky harangues troops & reviews Red Army in Red Square.
Winter 1917 famine - children queue at American Red Cross soup kitchen. Ext. snow-covered Kremlin. Lenin. Lenin’s wife Krupskaya.
13:59:54

220675 07:52:06 - 08:04:56 1918 - 1919 c Sd/Sil B/W

[Russian Civil War Scenes]
Civil War - bridge blown up at Kolchak - soldiers mount horses & ride off. Trotsky at train station w/ group of soldiers. Troops decorated.
07:53:45 White firing squad - men shot, fall backwards into grave - CU bodies in pit - prisoners under guard - several more executions, some shot in head [some shots repeated w/ film slowed].
07:58:55 Civil war action in snow - armoured cars - infantry advance - machine guns fired. Trotsky making speeches to troops.
08:00:17 Nun in front seat of medical truck / ambulance. Battle scenes in snow - miniature gun carriage - cavalry charge - chow - pushing back Yudenich outside Petrograd - Kronstadt ? - biplane dropping leaflets. Soldiers try to climb over barbed wire barricade. Vars scenes White army in retreat.

220674 06:37:33 - 06:47:23 1920s SIL B/W

[Misc. USSR - Georgian Scenes - Famine - Trotsky - Lenin Funeral - Farming]
1929? Children in rowing boats. 5 Georgian men sitting in field talking & smoking; CU Georgian man talking.
GVs village; overview of people working in village; CU children & women sitting around. CU woman cooking over open fire, child beside her; vars shots women & children w/ cooking pots on open fires (famine ?). GVs temporary camp - DPs sitting around - cooking - women and children
06:39:23 GVs Graveyard with crosses. Train stopped & people milling about - living in carriages?; men eating; man chopping firewood; young boy sitting with his head in his hands
06:39:45 Street market near lake.
06:40:07 Nurses examining undernourished people; injections. Women collecting hot water from communal tap. Town square crowded w/ camels & carts.
06:40:45 Soldiers parading through Red Square; Soviet officials - Stalin, Kalinin etc. - watch parade; CU Voroshilov on horseback in uniform; soldiers march past saluting.
06:41:32 Horses & carts through village; children run to meet them.
06:41:49 Trotsky making speech from train; people trying to catch papers that have been scattered; soldiers on horseback; Trotsky in crowd talking. Trotsky on boat wearing leathers. Lenin makes speech.
06:42:30 Vars shots Lenin funeral 1924 - coffin carried by Kalenin, Kamenev, Stalin, Zinoviev and others. - INT CU mourners inc. widow Krupskaya, Martinov, Lunacharsky.
06:43:15 Dock scenes - ships at harbour; soldiers on board ship; band playing as officer comes on board.
Men digging in field; young man holding Red Flag; horses ploughing; early tractor.
06:44:33 Scenes from 06:41:49 onwards repeated - Trotsky speeches, Lenin funeral, ships, farming.

220559 03:26:45 - 03:33:18 1920s Sd/Sil b/w

Russia 1920s - Outtakes
INCLUDING:

03:31:11 Map showing distance across Russia. Fountains in formal gardens. Paratroops parachute from plane. Trotsky reading from book in English talks about Europe, US and colonialism. Montage short shots personalities including Stalin, Lenin, Tsar, Krupskaya (widow of Lenin)
Very short shots throughout.

220755 19:31:11 - 19:36:16 1920s; 1952 SD B/W

Various - Russia Related
1920s - Young Stalin with others Trotsky ?. Brief military parade. Interior Kremlin: Stalin seated with Churchill and Harriman.
19:31:35 Thirty fifth anniversary of the revolution (1952) Brief night shots street scenes. Moscow Soviet meeting at Bolshoi theatre - standing ovation - Yasnov opens meeting - Karabukin ? delivers report - (English translation over) - various shots audience. Khruschev at top table.
19:33:58 Red Square 7Nov1952 - parade - flags - Stalin posters - CU happy, cheering people in parade. Foreign delegations. Stalin on podium.

221056 09:48:35 - 09:56:07 1922 SIL B/W

[Twelfth Communist Party Conference]
Aug22 Russian intertitles throughout. Brief shot dignitaries into room. EXT conference hall - busy traffic. Dignitaries into chamber - Stalin among them. VS people milling around, chatting at table & on telephone. MCU man w/ impressive & elaborate moustache - man into conference room.
09:50:18 VS conference under way - Stalin at head table - vars speakers at podium - delegates listening. Older dignitaries. VS men taking note & reading - man w/ ear trumpet. VS delegates chatting. Female journalists ? Felix Dzerzhinsky also present. Stalin elected General Secretary w/ Kuybyshev ? & Molotov as secretaries.
09:50:49 Zinoviev
09:51:40 Bukharin
09:52:06 Trotsky
09:53:32 Sokolnikov.

221086 12:00:00 - 12:08:46 1922 Si b/w

[12th Party Congress]
Abstract intertitles throughout. Good group shot senior Communist Party members inc. Leon Trotsky [no Lenin]. Vars further scenes of formal meetings, group discussions & personalities inc. good CUs Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin. Delegations inc. Urals & Eastern Russia. Stalin present but no CUs.
12:06:47 Lenin & group pose for camera outside - waving hats. High angle INT Congress delegates looking up at camera, clapping & laughing - Stalin in centre. Further shots Congress under way - packed hall.
12:08:04 Trotsky making speech at podium. Title ‘Hopes of worldwide bourgeoisie fell through but wonderful anticipation of Lenin came true’. Zinoviev speech.

220498 02:15:15 - 02:18:56 1923 Si b/w

Artillery division celebration
Mounted soldiers ride through the Kremlin.
Trotsky? and another officer salutes them as they pass.
Members of the 12th journey from the R.K.P??
Scenes of Trotsky talking to a man.
A contest of the mounted division.
The victors completed the race in 2mins 12sec.
Tug of War and various other games are played.

220923 08:38:30 - 08:43:10 1924 SIL B/W

[13th Party Congress]
Communist Party leaders (Stalin) walk across Red Square, crowds behind, around them. CU banners.
08:39:52 speeches by Zinoviev, Bukharin and Trotsky from wooden mausoleum. CU children clapping enthusiastically,
08:40:18 Kaminev. CU older boys holding flag, saluting, listening.
08:40:49 Title: Trotsky. Talking (intercut with cards). Boys salute, listen. White-haired woman talks passionately, children clap. Childrens’ parade - marching. GVs Red Square.

220923 08:43:11 - 08:50:22 1924 SIL B/W

[13th Party Congress - Soviet Union]
Man speaking to room. Framed picture of Lenin behind him. Title cards.
08:44:10 GVs Party members - meetings. Members (inc. Trotsky? & others) outside in sunshine. River, cityscape behind.
08:45:35 Restaurant.
08:45:54 Back to meeting hall. Stalin talking.
08:46:31 People entering from street, people handing leaflets outside, soldiers checking ID at entrance. 08:46:56 Trotsky & others talking on podium (intercut w/ titles)

221090 10:36:14 - 10:38:54 1924 SIL B/W

[Trotsky Speech 1924]
Crowds in Moscow - parade - lorry with huge sculpture of Head of Lenin
10:37:10 INT meeting - woman stands up to speak. Trotsky makes speech, Communist Party banner in BG. Anniversary of Communist university named after Svordlov ?

220935 04:27:48 - 04:30:27 1924 / PD SIL B/W

Red Square - Bukharin and Trotsky with Stalin
Wooden Mausoleum. VS people on mausoleum including young Stalin leaning on edge, cheering crowds below. Speakers. Young pioneers cheering and clapping. Trotsky addresses crowd. Various others making speeches including Krupskaya? Youth applaud. Pioneers march.

220678 14:27:42 - 14:29:25 1929 SIL B/W

Trotsky in Exile
Trotsky and others pose outside large house. Dog in basket. Group down steps. Brief shot in office.

220678 14:08:12 - 14:26:29 1930s SIL B/W STALIN
Ethnic Germans in Russia on the Volga; Bilingual signs German and Russian 1925; Rural Russia pre collective farming
Part 2
14:17:27 Trotsky May Day Parade in Red Square 1922; Stalin in Red Square; Kamenev and Zinoviev in Red Square
Trotsky in exile
Part 3
14:21:29 Jewish community in Russia 1930s interiors classroom girls learning Hebrew. Boys being taught in open air.

220606 03:28:53 - 03:30:48 1936 SIL B/W

Trotsky Arrives Mexico - w/ Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo
2 Motor plane taxiing up to camera. Trotsky off train. Walks toward camera. In back seat of car. With Diego Rivera & Natalia ?, small blonde woman. With Frieda Kahlo. Groups poses for camera in gardens

221083 07:19:40 - 07:27:34 1936 SD B/W

[Vyshinsky at Trial of Zinoviev - Cult of Stalin]
CUs Soviet Professors - Shereshevski, Vinogradov, Rosiski, Zipalov. Courtroom - Vyshinsky arrives & audience stands.
07:21:00 Little kids in uniform put into back of car & driven away as adults applaud.
07:21:15 Young girl makes speech in MCU; children applaud as Stalin appears projected onto screen, picks up little Mongol girl who kisses him.
07:21:53 MCU Vyshinsky’s summing up speech w/ crowd cutaways. Prisoners in dock? Pan across bench inc. Olishh. [Zinoviev not seen.]
07:25:41 “I demand that these mad dogs be shot, every last one of them”. [All 13 accused inc. Zinoviev shot on 25Aug36 - Trotsky sentenced to death in absentia.]
07:27:25 Brief shot of Stalin voting at ballot box. Kalinin voting.
Russia / USSR. Communist Party. Show Trials. Personality Cult.

221602 14:16:13 - 14:20:36 1936 - 1940 SIL B/W

[Mexico - Trotsky, Kahlo & Others, Press Conference (?)]
MS & MCU Trotsky in white suit reading book in garden.
14:16:52 Mexican police outside ?? w/ tall entrance doorway. LS.
14:17:14 MCU Trotsky writing at desk, books on shelf behind, receives mail, Internationale newspaper. Dictating w/ male secretary (?).
14:19:12 Ext w/ Natalia Trotsky & Trotsky by railing talking.
14:19:33 Frida Kahlo & men in business suits talking w/ Natalia & Totsky at reception. With others in doors & photographers & cameraman.
14:20:21 ?? Seated at table beneath No Smoking sign intercut w/ Trotski taking questions from reporters?
NOTE: Trotsky arrived 1936; assasinated August 1940.

220606 03:00:14 - 03:02:47 1940 SIL B/W Assassination of Trotsky
Pan over office with papers spilled. Knives & blood. Still of bandaged man & knife in back. Man sitting on bench. Men standing about outside hospital room. Ambulance leaves. Group of photographers and press talking with doctor. Trotsky in hospital bed, bandaged, doctors and nurses attending. Policeman standing in front of metal gate, press / still photographers.
Trotsky was assassinated by Ramon Mercader who may be the other man in hospital.

220606 03:40:22 - 03:43:33 1940 SIL B/W Trotsky's Funeral
Funeral, mourners, casket carried out. People in streets watching. Funeral procession & people walking by casket. Man speaking to group. Carrying coffin from hearse. Open casket & people file by in front of Mexican Communist flag. Carry coffin out. Skull with hole in it & brains held by doctor. CU. People waiting in line outside funeral home(?) daytime. Line moving past camera. Police and crowds outside seen from overhead.

221409 16:54:33 - 17:09:15 1962

The Road to the Wall Pt. 1 of 2
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Gives brief history of Communism. Footage from 1905 to 1960s
INCLUDING:

17:00:58 March 1917 demonstration, St Petersburg. Troops arrive in trucks, then army cheering w/ protesters. Kerensky speaks (MOS). Political prisoners freed. Faces, speeches, marching, gesturing. Lenin arrives. Trotsky speaks; Kerensky head of provisional government on balcony. Newspapers printed & sold.
17:02:34 Montage: women in uniforms parade. Protest. Lenin speaks (MOS). Workers & soldiers plow field w/ shovels. Lenin speaks.
17:03:10 Monument toppled. Crowds run, storm winter palace (staged?).
17:03:20 Leaflets passed out, Lenin, restless people in street. Red Army marching; old woman makes speech. People in streets, protest election dismissal, still of Lenin superimposed.
17:04:40 Russian Civil War, fight in snow. Troops on horses. Still: Tzar’s family, hammer & sickle overlay. Soldiers arresting; firing squad shoot three men into grave. Lenin w/ cat. Troops in streets. Map of world,
Kronstadt 1921 superimposed. Troops in streets.
17:05:59 People w/ corpses. Trotsky in uniform on steps. still of corpse w/ hammer & sickle superimposed. Lenin & Trotsky intercut. Stalin, People’s Commissar of Workers & Peasants Inspection Group, walking w/ others. Stalin at various times. Families beside railroad car. Wheat harvest w/ combines filling trucks. 17:07:42 Headlines re Lenin Stroke; Lenin Dead; Lenin funeral in snow. Stalin, Five Year Plan & montage: men work by railway, move logs, steel pouring, coal on conveyor, mining, factories & smoke, machinery, turbines, agriculture, housing construction, factory worker, freight train runby. (narrator says to Siberia). Cont.
Cold War Propaganda; History of USSR; Revolution; Communism; Communists; Socialism;
NOTE: Crowd footage not correct as to dates.

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