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Thunderstorm

Videos and films

ID:
62529
Place
Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1980
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:13:20 min
Color:
black and white
Sound:
Magnetic tape
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains an amateur film about the field work of the collective farm:

1) 00:00:11 - 00:04:41 — Thunderstorm and downpour over the farm buildings. Cows on a country road. A tractor works in the field. Ivan Andriyovych Zhyhor checks the plowing. A bulldozer digs up manure. A trailer is hauled by a tractor. Mykola Cherstvyi with his workers. Vasylenko drives a GAZ-53 truck. Potato planting. Mykola Baran greets the workers. Potatoes are sorted and cut. Workers plant lupines with a planter. Cook Halyna brings lunch in a trailer. Workers eat in the field.

2) 00:04:42 - 00:10:23 — Haylage is harvested and pressed. A visit from a Hero of the USSR, an air marshal. Mykola Hrytsai in the rye field. Meeting of workers. Mikhail Ilyich Nagornyi. General and close-up shots of the workers. Young men harness a horse to a cart. Workers fry lard on a fire. Lunch in the field. Workers rake hay into piles. Songs by Olga Voronets My Native Village, a Collective Farm (Родная моя, деревенька-колхозница) and Malinovka by VIA Verasy are played.

3) 00:10:24 - 00:13:14 — Wind in the rye. AN-2 “Kukurudznyk” plane in the sky. Combine harvesters "Kolos" at work. Crops are harvested. Mykhailo Nahornyi and Ivan Zhyhor in the field. A tractor with a dump trailer delivers grain. Potato harvester. Combine harvesters are awarded. A welcoming speech. Mykola Hrytsai and Mykola Cherstvyi. Pioneers greet the workers with flowers.

The soundtrack of the film consists of musical compositions.
The second audio track serves as an editing cue sheet for the film and contains a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, actions, and editing plans. It is humorous: Dmytro Kozel imitates machinery sounds.
Language:
Russian
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