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Videos and films

ID:
62530
Place
Korop village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1978
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:14:20 min
Color:
black and white
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The tape contains an amateur film about the mechanization of the October Revolution collective farm:

1) 00:00:19 - 00:02:27 — Winter village. The "October Revolution" collective farm. Group photo: Mykhailo Ilyich Nahornyi, Porfirii Ivanovych Mysnyk, Mykola Dmytrovych Cherstvyi. Drivers Demochko, Shkliar, Sorokin, Prokopov, Komarets near GAZ-53 and GAZ-51 trucks. Village street. Vehicles pass. Engine sound imitation. The song Tractor Driver’s Song (Песня трактористов) (lyrics by Vasyl Lebedev-Kumach) plays.

2) 00:02:28 - 00:05:59 — Tractor tillage. Tractor drivers at work. T-74 crawler. Mykola Ivanovych Hrytsai watches the plowing. Dmytro Kozel photographs with a Zenit and Rubin lens. A seeder at work. Oleksii Vorobey and a friend rest in the field. Mowing. Combine harvesters on "Kolos" machines (one driven by Dmytro Yatsenko) collect swaths. Grain trucks. Semen Pavlovych. Sheep graze. Power lines. Hrytsai repairs a combine. Combines are refueled. Hay is stacked by machine. Corn harvesting. Hrytsai checks stalks. The folk song Khliborobska Velychalna (Хліборобська Величальна) is played.

3) 00:06:00 - 00:10:16 — Mykola Hrytsai drives a car. The village of Korop. Cinema in the Theodosius Church building. Ceremony in the district executive committee hall. In the presidium: Yurchenkova, Yushchenko, Makhinko, Dovzhenko, Kolotylkin. Speeches by Dovzhenko, Zadesnyansky, Mykola Chervistyi. General shots of the audience. Anatolii Makhinko presents certificates. Tractor foreman Dmytro Zakovinko receives an award. Pioneers recite poems. Voice-over poetic narration by Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko.

4) 00:10:17 - 00:13:16 —- Performances in a birch grove. Choir singing. Dancing to accordion. Ditties.

5) 00:13:17 - 00:14:19 — Animal farm. A milkmaid at work. A farm worker. Cows in the pen.

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. Dmytro Kozel names the people involved in the footage and jokingly calls his friend Mykola Hrytsai a "Bolshevik."
Language:
Russian, Ukrainian
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