This color educational film was created as part of a series of Russian language teaching films. The film is presented entirely in Russian. The focus of the film is on science, technology and the performing arts in the Soviet Union. The film was photographed by Julien Bryan. Copyright is 1963.

Opening: Science Technology and Art in the USSR (:07-:40). A Russian elementary school building, children head to class. Happy children in school. Children rise and then sit. The teacher teaches them. A young girl comes up to the front and points at a display the teacher holds. Children write in class (:41-2:00). Women and children leave the school. Children sit in front of it. At a university in Russia, an instructor talks to a student. Moscow State University (2:53). Men walk down the stairs. Two young women write (2:01-3:32). Chemistry class (3:20). A professor does an experiment. Two female students pay rapt attention and take notes as a female professor conducts a demonstration. Students read and take notes. In the university library, students read magazines, many in English. Books in English as well are looked at. An American magazine is looked at, pictures from the magazine are shown (3:33-6:17). Now, a sequence about technology, with various machinery shown. A woman welds, another uses a mechanized loom. Inside of a atomic laboratory. A red light blinks as an experiment begins. An oscillograph type screen displays data. An industrial x-ray machine is shown at work.. Power lines. A nuclear powered icebreaker cuts through ice and snow. (This is probably the Lenin, which was launched in 1957, and was both the world’s first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel.) Smelting process in a steel mill. Men work in an iron/steel factory. Cargo is shown at the docks. Steel pipes are moved using a crane. Men move them in the snow with a crane. Birds fly away in the snow (6:18-8:28). American cargo vessel with the USA flag. Soccer game with a huge crowd. Halftime show with a spectacular display of flags, with women and men marching around the playing field. The crowd watches as groups of people on the field perform tricks (8:29-10:02). The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow , originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances.(10:12). The Bolshoi Ballet performs. Various circus-like tricks are performed by men and women. An actual circus is then shown: a bear rides a bike and then walks on two feet. The bear does a roll (10:03-11:47) Russian filmmaking and television production. A cameraman films a man open a door on a soundstage. A man moves a camera. Lights are set up for filming. A war scene is being filmed by a Russian movie crew. Boom mic is lifted. Men wear military costumes. Camera is moved. Arab garbed people ride camels and move. Some walk (11:48-13:37). End credits (13:38-13:44).

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