1940s Russia At War 221117-02 | Footage Farm

If you wish to acquire broadcast quality material of this reel or want to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk Troops march thru Red Square past Kremlin & across river. Moscow street scenes; barrage balloon thru streets; newspaper kiosk. City carrying on despite war, Molotov into office; Stalin making speech (SOF). Soviet soldiers & war heros dine at Cafe National. 06:15:50 Troops packed onto train leave station, waved off by loved ones. Armored train. Map of USSR. Leningrad bomb damage; Soviet troops crawl w/ rifles. Gunboat squadrons patrol eastern waters separating Russian Siberia & Japanese-held Manchuria. War effort scenes: female crew on fishing boat, farming in Caucasus, sheep herd on mountains; wheat harvest; tea plantation; camels pull carts of produce. 06:18:22 Baku oil refinery scenes; loading tank cars, trains past camera. Coal miner Stakhanov who exceeded quota drilling underground. Female miners; trains underground. 06:19:13 Magnetogorsk steel mill & industrial region w/ war production scenes: armaments factories; airplane & tanks assembled & roll off production lines. Good shot workers crawl up hillside in armed combat training, industrial landscape below. Russian villagers support guerillas w/ home-made weapons. Partisans advance thru village - take rifles from dead soldiers. Reel Two 06:21:41 Villagers attack traitor captured by partisans after liberation w/ shovel & rakes - execution by firing squad. Soviet pianist entertains troops on airfield. Air to air shots gunner in turret - bombs away - explosions on ground - Luftwaffe fighter plane downed. Heavy artillery fired. Shadow of fighter bomber plane in flight. Soviet tanks advance. German tank ambushed by camouflaged gun. View from inside Russian tank as it fires & hits German tank. 06:25:25 Soviet nurse helps wounded soldier into trench. PoVs from inside moving tanks being fired at. Destroyed German tanks - CU hand of dead soldier w/ Swastika ring, pan to show uniform burning - Germans out of trench w/ hands up. Doctors operating on wounded. Shellshocked soldier helped out of tank & into ambulance. 06:27:08 Heavy gun raised at dusk, city in BG. Barrage balloon raised above city at night. Silhouette heavy guns firing at night. 06:27:52 Military parade through Red Square - tanks - officers. WWII; Eastern Front; Russian Home Front; War Effort; Petroleum; War Incentive;