This Soviet film is the first part of a multi-part movie series produced for the June 19th, 1965 Inforga-65 COMECON (computational and office organization) technology expo in Moscow on the VDNKh exhibition grounds. The second part (existing in National Archives, not-digitized) movie features only printing and copying solutions and the third (lost) features early SCADA systems. This film was produced by the Lennauchfilm studios for the NII of Labor of the Labour and Remuneration Council of Ministers of the USSR, screenwriter : E. Rayn, Consultants : G. Slezinger, L. Baryutin, N. Izvolskaya, director : L. Klochkov, cameraman : V. Danashevsky, animator : K. Yanova, illustrator : V. Pervunin, sound : M. Volchkova, editor : V.Demin .
The features “Ural”, ternary logic, “Setun:, “BESM”, and “TA-80” series computers in accounting, and engineering, “Vega” desktop calculators, as well as archiving, copying and printing solutions represented by the “VSM” word processor, “TEKA”, “REM-600” and “Reprograph” copy, print, and microfiche machines.
0:18 A computer operator is probably working on set-up or maintenance of what looks like one of the Moscow State University and Kazan Computational Machine Factory’s “Setun-10” ternary logic computer line
0:22 Shot switches to the punch card compact tabulator model TA-80 machine used in accounting and industrial planning
0:45 early-line Ural-2, medium-sized mainframe computer, with copper letters. Ural 2 above the main console
0:58 later-line Ural-2 without such embellishments
1:00 closeup of the Ural-2 programming console with the address/data input and control input switches
1:06 An accounting printout
1:27 A Minsk-22 computer released in 1965
2:04 A tabletop Vega semiconductor-based calculator with ferrite core memory
2:22 A VSM word processor/printer peripheral
2:42 The exhibition hall of the COMECON Inforga-65 computing fair , various presentation brochures for the available computing solutions
3:00 A tape-memory unit
3:20 A Reprograph and paper-to-microfiche/reel machine, using 35 mm and 70 mm film, incorrectly designated in the movie as a « copy machine
3:24 An actual photocopy machine – REM-600, and its operation
3:40 back to the Reprograph, – the 70-mm microreel is demonstrated here
4:24 A thermal printing (fax-machine-like) TEKA-1copy machine
4:40 Footage about furniture ergonomics and office planning
5:20 BG-31 tape recorder and player facilitating secretarial work
6:23-7:30 Various examples of incorrectly organized and managed workplaces
7:40 A semi-organized workplace, unfortunately as in many Soviet planning videos the accent is given to the saved office space, unfortunately a common “concern” in modern economies as well – and raw materials – namely – steel, instead of the questionable ergonomics of an engineer staring onto a design sheet mere couple dozen centimeters from his face.
8:20 A microfiche browser with a search option (probably punch-tape-like data encoding on the side of the film)
9:24 Ivan Ivanovich Vasilliev, vice-president of the Leningrad Optomehanical Union (cameras, film, photocopy machine manufacturing etc.), advertising the advantages of using computers and tabulators in the organization production.
10:12 A BESM type computer.
10:24 Closing shot of the Moscow Likhachev Automotive Factory ZIL administration building and vehicle assembly hall (left), constructed 1932-1937.
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