From the Earth from the Soul

Videos and films

ID:
62542
Place
Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1974/1975
Genre:
Home movies
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:11:44 min
Color:
black and white
Sound:
Magnetic tape
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains footage of homestead work and a wedding:

1) 00:00:03 - 00:03:34 — Halyna Kozel digs the garden plot. Mykola plows with a horse. Vasyl Pylypovych Haiduk uses an MTZ-05 motorized tractor. Neighbors watch as the invention seems to plow on its own. Tetiana plants beets. Women plant potatoes. The song Song of Tractor Drivers (Песня трактористов) (lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach) plays.

2) 00:03:35 - 00:04:34 — Dmytro Kozel’s mother with geese. Women make homemade sausage. A stork takes off from the field.

3) 00:04:35 - 00:10:55 — A wedding. Women dance in the yard to an accordion. Ivan Koshelenko among the accordionists. Men’s feast: vodka from a kettle. Mykola Cherstvyi among the guests. Women sing songs. The hosts serve food. Newlyweds among the guests. Halyna Kozel with her child. Guests treated to vodka and sausage. Dancing. Children, including Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko, eat seeds. General and portrait shots of guests. Father and son on a homemade tractor. Men pull a cart with newlyweds through the flames. The newlyweds bow to the guests.
The song Oh, in the Meadow and by the Bank is a Red Viburnum (Ой у Лузі та ще й при Березі Червона Калина) plays.

4) 00:10:55 - 00:11:33 — A man drives a dog into the house. Another man with a bicycle stands near a herd of cows on a village street. A stork takes flight.

The film’s soundtrack is composed 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. Dmytro Kozel calls out the involved people and imitates sounds and actions.
Language:
Russian, Ukrainian
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