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Videos and films

ID:
62554
Place
Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region) Nekhayivka village (Chernihiv region) Korop village (Chernihiv region) Radychiv village (Chernihiv region) Obolonnia village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1982
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:13:36 min
Color:
black and white
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains an amateur report on the fulfillment of socialist obligations by collective farms during the second year of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (1981–1985):

1) 00:00:11 - 00:02:03 — Tractor tillage and sowing in a potato field. Mykola Hrytsai assists in repairing machinery. Cattle grazing nearby.

2) 00:02:04 - 00:04:25 — The village of Nehaivka. A rye field. Harvesting using Kolos combines. The head of the collective farm, Romanko, inspects the ears of grain. Offscreen commentary explains the plan’s underperformance due to unfavorable weather. Combine operators clean machinery. Combine operators take a break.

3) 00:04:26 - 00:05:51 — The village of Radychiv. The House of Culture. The "Iskra" collective farm. Participants of a seminar on fodder production. Workers unload fodder from a truck. A worker near the elevator. Harvesting fodder from beets and pumpkins.

4) 00:05:52 - 00:06:48 — Korop village. The "October Revolution" collective farm. Participants at the scientific and production conference on winter crop cultivation. Speech by Chief Engineer Mykola Vasyliovych Rubanyk. Ivan Andriyovych Zhyhor and Mykola Ivanovych Hrytsai appear. A tractor plowing the field.

5) 00:06:49 - 00:08:34 — Ponornytsia village. A solemn assembly for the Day of Knowledge. Opening of a monument to Lenin by Anatolii Andriyovych Makhinko. Pioneer fireworks. Children lay flowers at the monument and walk in pairs to school.

6) 00:08:35 - 00:10:52 — Korop village. Meeting room of the district party committee. District meeting in session. Speech by Makhinko. Report by Anatolii Mykhailovych Savonov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the District Council of People's Deputies. Reports from collective farm heads, heads of institutions, production leaders, and labor veterans: Pylypets, Shklyar, Solovey, and Savych. Winners of the socialist competition receive certificates and a flag. A woman photographs the event with a Kyiv-6C camera. Participants pose for a group photo in front of the executive committee building. A Christmas tree stands in Lenin Square.

7) 00:10:53 - 00:13:27 — Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the USSR. A procession with a portrait of Lenin and flags. Laying flowers at Lenin’s monument. Savonov and Makhinko. Young people perform with wind instruments. Wreath-laying at the mass grave of WWII fallen. Monument to the Heroes of the Obolon Bridgehead. The poem Eternal Flame by B. Zhavoronkov is performed.

Voice-over narration by L. Petrenko.

The second audio track is an unsynchronized editing cue sheet for the film and contains a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, actions, and editing plans. Dmytro Kozel mentions the names of people involved in the footage (Mykola Hrytsai is praised as “the hero”) and uses sound imitation techniques.
Language:
Ukrainian, Russian
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