Russian in WWI Pt2/3 220505-02X | Footage Farm
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Soldiers digging trench / cave in rocks w/ picks & shovels; pick up rifles, ammunition cases & behind artillery on ridge.
11:18:57 Men in ditch w/ debris below hillside; view down hills of wrecked military equipment. Large concrete building & wreckage. Pan railroad flat-car, locomotive wreckage & train of equipment.
11:20:08 Large General (?) addressing officers. Car arrives w/ General & saluting.
11:21:13 Tsar arrives by car w/ other military officers. Leaving w/ large General.
11:21:29 Mlitary band on horseback in summer riding ahead of troops thru village.
11:21:58 Town w/ troops riding in sunshine past store w/ sign Emil Gutierz. Pan over crowds watching on cobblestone street, women in ethnic costumes & sign behind: A La Ville De Paris. Cars arrive w/ Tsar; reviewing troops or police. Shakes hands. Kisses nurse & talks w/ another woman.
11:23:49 Crowds in Red Square- recruits (?) march thru, crowds follow.
11:25:08 Russian soldiers digging a trench, pick up rifles. LS of encampment w/ rifles stacked, smoking fires. 11:25:43 Wounded or resting lie under trees.
11:26:33 Nurses beside large railroad carriages / cars; soldiers boarding troop train / hospital train, interiors w/ casualties bandaged, doctors / surgeons & nurses. Wounded transferred to from freight cars to hospital train. Nurses help man out of farm cart onto stretcher, soldier carrying man piggy-back. Sleighs past & arriving at station.
11:28:25 Interior hospital pan over wounded in beds & doctors; nurse reading to men. Men w/ artificial limbs inspected by doctors & civilians (Soviet era ca 1920 or 1930s).
11:29:48 Soldiers play croquet near cemetary, hospital (?) train on siding; nurses join in game.
11:30:12 Observation balloon lowered w/ men in basket.
11:30:22 Soldiers running thru snowy forest, into snow cave; run out & cave explodes. Grenades thrown into over snowy forested river bank - explosion. Troops run up w/ rifles, fire & throw grenades.
11:31:52 Officers discuss over map, flag above. Officers inside ?? w/ markers & papers.
11:32:18 Troops march thru snow. Pan over snowy landscape & fortiification. Soldiers march up to ridge & thru trench. Officer w/ binoculars, one on tripod - artillery adjusted & fired; troops up snow covered hillside. 11:35:18 Destroyed large buildings w/ only foundations remaining. People around rubble in bomb damaged mountain town, minaret standing. Large number of artillery wagons in fort.
WW1; Winter; Mountain Fighting; 1910s;
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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