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[1911 - Grape Harvest; Russia Cavalry; German Celebration; Italian-Turkish War; Train Wreck; Spanish Diplomats; French Military Skiing; Storms; NYC Fire]
Russian Main title & inter-title: Bessarabia, Moldavia - October, 1911 - collecting grapes in Vineyards of French colony.
09:10:17 Pan grape pickers & farmer in field. MCU woman picking large bunch of grapes; eating & laughing.
09:10:55 Russian inter-title: Irkutsk, Siberia - Exercises of the garrison troops.
09:10:59 Russian Cavalry riding up road past camera looking out over valley; firing artillery. MS officers standing watching or ??
09:11:27 Russian inter-title: Trier, Germany Procession commemorating 100th anniversary of Empress Augustine.
09:11:33 High angle of parade past crowd, troops in historical costumes; current, 1910s military units.
09:12:07 Russian inter-title: Italian-Turkish war - unloading artillery. Ships in Libya harbor. Soldiers move wagons over floating bridge or pier, horses wade ashore & on beach.
09:12:34 Russian inter-title: Arrival of General Caneva & Rear Admiral Borea Ricci.
09:12:38 Riding thru Tripoli, Libya North African Arab street in carriages & passing camera.
09:12:49 Russian main title & text title: Home of poet Shevchenko.
09:12:55 CU Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) painting w/ imposing eyes. Pan thatched cottage to large mound w/ ornate memorial cross on top. CU of base w/ carving.
09:13:21 Russian inter-title: Mail train crashes on Rimskaya railway 9Feb1911.
09:13:29 Men, women & military beside heavily burned railroad car in snow.
09:13:35 Title: "People load their goods on train heading for Perm". Frozen bundles loaded into box car.
09:13:57 Russian inter-title: Paris - The Marques Soreno & Spanish diplomats ride in a water taxi.
09:14:01 Men on boat leaving past houses along Seine riverbank, towards bridge; view of fast motorboat towards camera & past up-river several times w/ much exhaust smoke. Arrival. GOOD.
09:14:25 Russian inter-title: France - Ski exercises by 152nd division.
09:14:29 Officers on horseback past troops lining street in rain. Civilian & military VIPs pose outside large building. Troops ski down hill from camera. VIPs arrive railroad station platform (brief).
09:14:53 Russian inter-title: Italy- Salerno? - Results of terrible storms. Large waves break on stone wall.
09:15:13 Russian inter-title: Fire in New York. Firemen hose smoking rubble of large brick building. People running along railroad tracks toward wall of heavy black smoke.
1911; 1910s; Agriculture Harvest; Military Ceremony; Transportation; Fires; Weather; Pre-WWI; Pre-WW1;
NOTE: NOT Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Italian-Turkish War 29Sep11 - 18Oct12.
There were special court cameramen and photographers who captured the daily life of the Romanov family. The Company of von Gun filmed the Tsar, and with the permission of the Ministry of the Court, showed these films in movie theatres beginning in 1907. Before the February 1917 Revolution, the von Gun Company was the main provider of the Tsar's chronicles in the Russian film industry. After 1907 other filmmakers were permitted to film the Royal family, including A. Drankov, V. Bulla (the elder), Khanzhonkov Company, Pate Company, and others. Before the beginning of World War I a newsreel became popular capturing military parades, holidays, reviews and drills. Many are devoted to the Fleet. They document everyday life of the Baltic Sea and Black Sea squadrons. Some of the newsreels document the fire of the Maly Theatre in Moscow, mass gymnastics, auto and motor races, zoos and animal preserves, and the life of peoples of the Russian Empire. The objects of filming were political and cultural figures, the construction of warships, the Moscow flood, the testing of new agricultural equipment and the oil industry in Baku. There are also films showing the towns of Russia, etc. During World War I, cameramen captured events on all fronts. Before 1915, the exclusive rights to film battles belonged to the Film Department of the Skobelev Committee. The Skobelev Committee of the Assistance to the Wounded Soldiers of the General Staff was founded in November 1904 as a public organization. By the order of the Scobelev Committee many cameramen filmed the events of the World War I, such as Englishman Arcol (representative of Pate Company, filmed on South-Western and Caucasus fronts), cameramen E.D. Dored (represented American companies) and P.V. Ermolov, (filmed events on Caucasus front); P.K. Novitskiy (Gomount Company), N.M. Toporkov, K.E. von Gan, A.K. Gan-Jagelskiy, made filming in the General Headquarters. Other cameramen such as: A. G Lemberg, S, Zebel, Trushe, etc. also worked at the fronts. Cameramen filmed the war not only on the fronts but also from the rear. Since the first month of the war until 1917 the Scobelev Committee produced about 70 newsreels. From 1914 to 1915 cameramen of the Scobelev Committee produced 21 series of the newsreel "Russian Military Chronicle". The materials of this newsreel were used many times for the separate films made by Scobelev Committee and other film companies. Read more at: http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/rao/archives/rgakfd/textind10.html
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