Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-1392C

00:55:15 1	RUSSIAN NARRATION - PART 1 FILM BIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING CLIPS OF HIS FILMS - ALEXANDRA DOVCHENKO - FILM PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, SCREEN WRITER. CU WORDS WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY DOVCHENKO. FOLLOWED BY CREDITS FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY FILM.
00:56:24 70	MONTAGE FILM CLIPS INCLUDE RUSSIANS SPEEDING AWAY ON HORSEBACK, FARMER WITH HIS CROPS. GERMAN SOLDIERS (WWII) CLIMBING THROUGH BARBED WIRE. GERMAN SOLDIER BLINDED BY GAS FUMES. SHORT CLIP AMERICAN INDIAN ON HORSEBACK. CU SMILING RUSSIAN WOMEN PICKING CROPS IN WHEAT FIELD. BOMB EXPLODING IN BATTLEFIELD, ETC.
00:57:08 114	AERIAL PAN RIVER CURVING THROUGH FIELDS (VOLGA ?). PAN TO SERENE SHORES OF RIVER. RUSSIAN VOICE OVER NARRATING. LARGE STORK LANDS ON TREETOP. TILT DOWN TO THATCHED ROOF FARM HOME (DOVCHEKO'S), ZOOM IN ON PLAQUE ON OUTSIDE WALL OF HOME
00:58:20 186	VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE MODEST HOME OF DOVCHENKO (?). BED NEXT TO WINDOW AND A BABY CRIB HANGING FROM CEILING. PHOTO OF ELDERLY WOMAN (HIS MOTHR ?) PHOTO OF ELDERLY MAN WITH LONG WHITE BEARD (DAD ?), PAN TO DRAWING OF LITTLE BOY (DOVCHENKO ?).
00:59:30 256	CU FILM CLIP ELDERLY BALDING MAN WITH WHITE HAIR AND BEARD EATING FRUIT, AND WATCHING SMALL CHILD (DOVCHENKO (?). OLD MAN WIPES MOUTH ON SHIRT SLEEVE.
00:59:59 285	VARIOUS SHOTS SCENERY RIVER WATERS, PAN TREES ALONG SHORE, PICTURESQUE CLOUDS IN SKY,WITH MOON OR SUN, TREES, ETC, ALL INDICATING PASSAGE OF TIME. CU GREAT FILM SHOT, MIDDLE-AGED DOVCHENKO SMILING AT CAMERA.
01:01:27 373	VARIOUS SHOTS DOVCHANKO FILM - COMRADES IN ARMS HAVING ANIMATED DRAMATIC CONVERSATION, WITH ONE OR TWO DOMINATING THE CONVERSATION.
01:02:25 431	CU DOVCHENKO AT DESK AT HOME, WRITING. CU VARIOUS SHOTS OF HIS WRITINGS AND MORE SCENES OF MEN , SOME WOUNDED, IN BARRACKS, OF WHICH HE WRITES. MORE SCENES, DRAMATIC CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MEN IN BARRACKS.
01:04:06 532	CU FRAMED PHOTO OF DOVCHENKO ON WALL IN STUDY. ZOOM AWAY, PAN ROOM. GROUP PHOTO WITH YOUNG DOVCHENKO. CU DOVCHENKO IN MILITARY UNIFORM. VARIOUS SHOTS DRAWINGS, BY DOVCHENKO (?). MOVIE POSTERS.
01:05:26 612	CU FACE SHOT DOVCHENKO - CU SHOT OF VASE FILLED WITH PAINT BRUSHES PAN WINDOW SILL. WIND BLOWN TREE BRANCHES OUTSIDE. OCEAN WAVES COMING ON ROCKY ASHORE. MOVIE SET WITH ACTORS ON STAGE, DIRECTOR AND FILM CREW IN F/G. BACKS TO CAMERA.
01:06:15 661	CU CAN OF MOVIE FILM OPENS UP, EXPOSING ROLL OF FILM. ZOOM IN ON FILM WHICH COMES ALIVE WITH DOVECHENKO FILM (COMEDY (?). RUSSIAN NARRATION - OUR HERO PEERS FROM BEHIND BUSHES AT MAN WITH BEARD SEATED AT PARK BENCH WITH WOMAN WHO OPENS PACKAGE, BOTH LOOK INSIDE, GET UP FROM BENCH AND RUN AWAY. OUR HERO RUNS AFTER THE MAN, GRABS HIM AND DRAGS HIM HIM BACK TO PARK BENCH.. . VILLAIN AGAIN TAKES OFF RUNNING, CHASED AGAIN BY OUR HERO WHO CATCHES HIM, ENDING IN HIGH SPEED PUNCHING MATCH.
01:07:07 713	CU FACE SHOT DOVCHENKO,
01:07:18 724	2ND FILM, SPY DRAMA (?) ON BOARD PASSENGER SHIP. WOMAN SHOWS DISTRESS, PANIC WHEN SHE DISCOVERS IMPORTANT PAPERS HAVE BEEN STOLEN. CREWMEN AND CAPTAIN (?) ARRIVE TO HER AID.
01:07:37 743	MS CREW MAN WHO STOLE PAPERS, REMOVES THEM FROM POUCH, THROWS EMPTY POUCH DOWN VENT LEADING TO ENGINE ROOM. THE POUCH IS PICKED UP BY OUR SHIRTLESS HERO (DOVCHENKO ?) WHO SPOTS IT AS HE IS WORKING, SHOVELING COAL INTO FURNACE.
01:07:45 751	SOBBING WOMAN TELLS TOP VILLAIN HER STORY. GREAT SHOT OF SINISTER LOOK ON VILLAIN AND EACH CREWMAN'S FACE.(FACIAL EXPRESSIONS).
01:08:00 766	OUR HERO FINDS THE POUCH, SLIPS IT UNDER HIS BELT, CONTINUES SHOVELING COAL INTO FURNACE. MAN APPROACHES HERO, TRIES TO FORCEFULLY GET POUCH FROM HIM, FIERCE STRUGGLE ENSUES, OUR HERO SUBDUES VILLAIN.
01:08:52 818	SCENE CHANGES WITH TOP VILLAIN TRYING TO GET PAPERS FROM PIPE SMOKING HERO (DOVCHENKO ?). VILLAIN MAKES SEVERAL OFFERS OF MONEY TO HERO FOR THE PAPERS. SCENE ENDS WITH HERO VIOLENTLY THROWING THE MONEY IN THE FACE OF VILLAIN.
01:09:19 845	DOVCHENKO AND HIS CAMERA CREW POSE FOR CAMERA in field.. SYMBOLIC (?) FILM SCENE OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE AMERICAN INDIAN, SPEAR IN HAND, RIDING WHITE HORSE THROUGH WOODED AREA, FOLLOWED A SHORT TIME LATER BY 2 RUSSIAN HORSEMEN (COSSACKS ?) GALLOPING AFTER HIM (?).
01:09:56 882	DOVCHENKO FILMS WHICH DEALT MOSTLY WITH BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, SHOWS OLD WHITE BEARDED RUSSIAN PEASANT FARMER IN FIELD WITH HORSE AND WAGON, IS APPROACHED BY BOLSHEVIK FIGHTERS ON HORSEBACK, ARMED WITH SWORDS AND RIFLES, IS RECRUITED TO JOIN REVOLUTION. HE IS HANDED A SWORD, WHICH HE STRAPS ON, THEN JOINS THEM ON HORSEBACK.
01:10:53 939	CU DOVNCHENKO HORROR MOVIE POSTER, ZOOM IN ON DRAWING OF SAME OLD MAN. SCENE SHOWS OLD MAN LEADING SOME OF HIS NEW COMRADES TO HIDDEN TRAPDOOR IN GRASSY FIELD, WHEN HE OPENS IT A HORRENDOUS MONSTER OF A MAN EXITS WITH LANTERN IN HAND. VARIOUS CU FACIAL EXPRESSION OF HORROR FROM OLD MAN AND HIS COMRADES AS THEY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES AS A HOODED GHOST OF A MAN HOLDING LANTERN HOVERS OVER THEM.. -
01:11:29 975	THE LARGE GROUP REVOLUTIONARIES STOP RUNNING, TURN BACK TO LOOK, AS MONSTER THROWS FIERY LANTERN AT THEM WHICH EXPLODES IN HUGE FLAME.
01:11:50 996	DOVCHENKO STORY BOOK BECOMES ALIVE WITH LARGE UNIFORMED MAN (LOOKS LIKE JOSEF STALIN) AND HIS UNIFORMED AIDE GET OFF HORSES WALK TO TRAPDOOR OF HIDDEN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL HOVERS OVER IT WITH HANDS ON HIPS, OUT COMES OLD FARMER (HERO) WHO LOOKS UP, THEN, CU KISSES, HUGS LEADERS BOOTS.
01:13:13 1079	ARIOUS SHOTS RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT (?) TROOPS RUSH TO TRAIN STATION TO MEET THE REVOLUTIONARIES. BOTH LEADERS STARE EACH OTHERS DOWN. (GOOD DRAMATIC FACIAL EXPRESSIONS) TROOPS FORCE THE REVOLUTIONARIES BACK INTO STOCK CARS. REVOLUTIONARY LEADER MAKES GESTURE WITH HAND, BOX CAR DOORS OPEN REVEALING TWO MACHINE GUNS AND CREWS POINTED AT RIVAL TROOP
01:14:23 1149	TRAIN CONTINUES ON ITS WAY WITH SHOT OF BOLSHEVIK FIGHTER PLAYING HIS ACCORDION AS OTHERS SLEEP, PLAY CARDS IN SPEEDING BOX CARS. FIGHT ENSUES BETWEEN RIVAL FACTIONS IN BOX CARS, SCENES OF MEN JUMPING OUT FROM SPEEDING TRAIN. SCENE ENDS S WITH SYMBOLIC SCENE OF ACCORDION FALLING TO GROUND, MAKING ITS FINAL GASP.
01:15:14 1200	SHOTS OF VICTORIOUS REVOLUTIONARIES RAISING FLAG, PEOPLE WILDLY CELEBRATING, OLD SOLDIERS KISSING EACH OTHERS ON CHEEKS. SOLDIERS ON HORSEBACK RIDING VICTORIOUSLY THROUGH TOWNS. CU STEAM WHISTLE BLOWING. DOVCHENKO SPEAKING WITH HIS FILM CREW.
01:17:28 1334	ANGRY HERO PICKS UP SOIL FROM GROUND AND HURLS IT. SOLDIERS WITH RIFLES APPROACH HIM. HE ANGRILY STANDS UP AND CHALLENGES THEM. THEY AIM THEIR RIFLES AT HIM. HE RIPS OPEN HIS COAT AND SHIRT, BARING HIS CHEST, DARING THEM TO SHOOT. THEY LOSE HEART EVEN AS THEIR OFFICER TELLS THEM TO SHOOT. SCENE ENDS.
01:18:49 1415	PAN VARIOUS ABOVE VIEWS MODERN BUILDINGS CULTURAL CENTER. DURING CELEBRATION DOVCHENKO WORLD FESTIVAL (?). MORE OF DOVCHENKO FILM CLIPS.
01:19:20 1446	CU SHOTS 1 WHITE BRAHMA BULL, THEN 2 BRAHMA BULLS. THREE YOUNG MEN LOOKING COOL AS THEY POP NUTS (?) INTO THEIR MOUTHS. FARMER WITH BRAHMA BULL, SHOT OF WHITE HORSE ALL FACING CAMERA. FACE SHOTS YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, GETTING EXCITED, SMILING AS THEY WATCH MN DRIVING TRACTOR, FOLLOWED BY PARADE OF MEN.
01:19:59 1485	ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, MEN SLIDING DOWN THATCHED ROOFS TO GROUND, CROWDS OF FARMERS, YOUNG AND OLD PEOPLE RUNNING INTO TOWN TO SEE TRACTOR (?). CU SHOT SMOKING TRACTOR. RUSSIAN NARRATION.
01:21:18 1564	CU GOOD SHOTS YOUNG MAN WALKING DOWN ROAD, ZOOM AWAY AS HE KEEPS WALKING SLOWLY DOWN ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA. HE STOPS WALKING, DOES SOME POLKA DANCE STEPS, THEN REALLY GETS INTO INTENSE DANCING AS HE TOWARDS CAMERA, THEN FALLS TO GROUND.
01:22:50 1656	ABOVE SHOT MASSES PEASANTS, WOMAN WITH THEIR FAMILIAR HEAD SCARVES (BABUSHKAS), MEN WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA. FACE SHOTS MEN YOUNG AND OLD, ALL SINGING PATRIOTIC (?) SONG IN PROCESSION AS THEY CARRY BODY OF DECEASED MAN (?)
01:23:18 1684	OLD PEASANT WOMAN DOES SIGN OF CROSS, SHOWS GRIEF AS SHE TURNS AND GOES INTO HER FARM SMALL HOUSE, LAYS ON COT GRIEVING. MORE PEASANTS JOIN PROCESSION FOR DEAD MAN. YOUNG MAN GRIEVES SO MUCH HE RUNS AND TRIES TO BURY HIS HEAD IN THE FARM GROUND, TWISTING AND TURNING AS THOUGH HE IS SCREWING HIS HEAD INTO THE GROUND.
01:25:20 1806	VARIOUS CU SHOTS FRUIT ON TREES, HEAVY RAIN POUNDING THE FRUIT ON TREES AND ON GROUND. RUSSIAN VOICE OVER NARRATES.
01:26:19 1865	CU WORKER VIGOROUSLY USING PICK AX ON JOB. PAN CRANES, MEN, WOMEN, WORKING ON HUGE DAM PROJECT. VARIOUS SHOTS MAN HAPPILY WORKING. SPITS IN HAND THEN WIELDS HIS CROW BAR. WOMAN SHOVELING DIRT. WORKER GIVES HAND MOTIONS TO CRANE OPERATOR AS HE GUIDES BUCKET CEMENT INTO PLACE.
01:29:00 2026	SCENES IN DOVCHENKO FILM - LONG COLUMN ARMED MEN TRAVELING SINGLE FILE THROUGH THICK FORREST. SCENE CHANGES HERO (?) STANDING ON ROCKY STREAM FIRING HIS PISTOL AT THE MEN. THEY FIRE BACK WITH RIFLES. EACH OF HIS SHOTS SUCCESSFULLY KILLS ONE OF HIS OPPONENTS. EVENTUALLY THE REMAINING MEN PANIC, RUN FOR THEIR LIVES,, OUR HERO IN PURSUIT.
01:29:27 2053	VARIOUS SHOTS MEN RUNNING, CRAWLING THROUGH FOREST IN PANIC, PURSUER , PISTOL IN HAND, CLOSE BEHIND.
01:31:08 2154	SCENE CHANGES TO DOVCHENKO DIRECTING HERO FOR NEXT SCENE IN FOREST SETTING AS HIS FILM CREW STANDS BY. CU OUR HERO WIPES HIS BROW AS HE APPROACHES HIS PREY, A CHINESE LOOKING MAN WITH GLASSES, IN STATE OF PANIC. SCENE ENDS WITH HERO RAISING PISTOL AT MAN, SHOT RINGS OUT. SCENE ENDS.
01:33:21 2287	CU VARIOUS DOVCHENKO DRAWINGS OF PEOPLE. CU SMILING DOVCHNKO (?) HUGS AN OLD MAN. CU SHOT DOVCHENKO IN DEEP THOUGHT. DOVCHENKO AT TABLE WITH MAN ALMOST DOZES OFF. VARIOUS OTHER SHOTS DOVCHENKO DIRECTING FILM SCENES. (ALL VOICE OVER RUSSIAN NARRATION.
01:35:17 2403	MS DOVCHENKO HOLDS OLD WOMAN CLOSE, PUTS HER HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER, AS CAMERAMAN SHOOTS SCENE..
01:35:23 2409	FILM SCENE MIDDLE-AGED MAN IN OBVIOUS GRIEF WALKS RAPIDLY THROUGH WOODED AREA, HAT HELD TO CHEST' STOPS PUTS HANDS TO FACE AND CRIES UNCONTROLLABLY.
01:36:30 2476	END