Godparent’s Reactor
- ID: 62499
- Place: Syniavka village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1981-05-30
Videos and films
- ID:
- 62538
- Place
- Korop village (Chernihiv region)
- Date:
- 1983
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- 16 mm film
- Duration:
- 00:13:57 min
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Magnetic tape
- Creator
- Dmytro Kozel
- Collection
- Volnytsia People's Film Studio
- Description
-
The film contains an amateur film report on the celebration of Maslenitsa:
1) 00:00:14 - 00:03:13 — Three bogatyrs stand in a snowy field. Did Moroz and Winter arrive and perform on stage. Speech by Ostapenko, deputy chairman of the district executive committee. Spring gives him a loaf. Spring appears with a trio of bogatyrs. The party secretary hands her a loaf. The song The Clouds Have Dispersed, The Sun Will Shine (Розійшлись хмарки, гляне сонечко) plays. Speeches by the head of the village council Tereshchenko and Prykhodko, deputy chairman of the Pravda collective farm board.
2) 00:03:14 - 00:05:51 — Performances by amateur music and dance groups on stage. Boys ride a horse cart. General and portrait shots of the attendees. Folk songs Oh, the Hoop Burst (Ой лопнув обруч) and Through the Garden-Vineyard (Через сад-виноград) are heard.
3) 00:05:52 - 00:13:05 — Tea from samovars. Boys eating dumplings. Women cooking in a cauldron. A dance number. A comedy scene featuring musketeers. Musicians perform in a trio. Men taste varenyky. The song And My Sweetheart Wants Varenyky (А мій милий вареничків хоче) plays. The video reverses to show varenyky flying into mouths. Ivan Koshelenko and Dmytro Kozel, in character, eat varenyky atop a stack. Women make tea in a samovar. Men drink vodka. Entertainment includes arm wrestling and tug of war. A tavern scene shows a fight among visitors.
4) 00:13:06 - 00:13:50 — The Maslenitsa effigy is set up and burned while a choir sings. A horse cart carries passengers. The Musketeers appear.
Voiceover poetic narration by Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko and Dmytro Kozel.
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 emotional and humorous. Dmytro Kozel mentions the people involved in the footage. - Language:
- Ukrainian
Linked objects
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- ID: 62511
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1983
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- ID: 62514
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1981
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- ID: 62527
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1978