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[1914 - Russian Police Dog Show; Estonian Troop Games; Tsar Nicholas II; Targa-Florio Road Race]
Russian Main title & inter-title: St. Petersburg - Police Dog training show.
09:15:57 Police w/ dogs march past large grandstand. Dogs leap over high wall to retrieve package. Series of dogs led by handlers to wall in park (?), dogs over & handlers around.
09:16:37 Russian inter-title: Derpt Soldiers playing games at festival of 95th Krasnoyarsk regiment.
09:16:43 Troops race across field, dog alongside. MCU tug-of-war. Blindfolded soldiers w/ poles, turn return & try to hit targets. Bucket on pole filled w/ water - cadets run, throw pole thru small hole in board beneath, one hits & dumps water. Pairs of cadets on pole having pillow fight as others watch & laugh.
09:17:25 Russian inter-title: Sevastopol - The laying of a dock in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.
09:17:31 Officers saluting Tsar Nicholas (?), shake hands. Down steps to harbor w/ ships seen from above. Boarding small boat w/ steam engine & move out into harbor.
09:18:05 Russian inter-title: Sicily - Car race Targa-Florio - motor rally.
09:18:11 Village street, people watch race cars w/ driver & mechanic at high speed along dusty rough road thru town & countryside. Up twisted curving dirt mountain road.
Animals; Military training; Royalty; Automobile Racing; 1910s;
NOTE: Targa Florio was begun in 1906
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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