The Grain Farmers

Videos and films

ID:: 62514
Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
Date:: 1981
Genre:: Amateur film
Technique:: 16 mm film
Duration:: 00:12:56 min
Color:: black and white
Sound:: Magnetic tape
Creator: Dmytro Kozel
Collection: Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description: The film contains an amateur feature film about agricultural labor:

1) 00:00:09 - 00:04:55 — Mykola Ivanovych Hrytsai in a rye field. A combine harvester operating on a Niva combine. Workers harvesting the crop. A truck loaded with grain near the elevator. Workers by the harvesting equipment and on a break in the field.

2) 00:04:56 - 00:07:08 — Flax harvesting and loading onto a truck (with video reversal effect). Flax harvesters during a break.

3) 00:07:09 - 00:13:03 — Presentation of the flag to the winning collective farm in the socialist competition for flax harvesting. Young people in folk costumes sing in the back of a UAZ-3303 truck. Recognition of the participants of the 1981 harvest. Singing with accordion near the combine. Ivan Andriyovych Zhyhor and Petro Dmytrovych Shapoval are present. Villagers gathered nearby. Tillage work with a Kyrovets tractor in the field.

The film's soundtrack consists of a voice-over narration by Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko and folk songs.

The second audio track serves as an editing cue sheet for the film and contains a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, and actions.
Language:: Ukrainian