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WWI - Russian Military Preparation & Fighting 220504-11X | Footage Farm
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[WWI - Russian Military Preparation & Fighting; Celebrating; Wounded Returned Home]
Blimps / barrage balloons carried by troops along dirt road, then on field moved into place & released
10:48:09 Well-dressed crowds at horse races in front of large elaborate covered grandstand.
10:48:33 Troops at attention on field parade; training w/ gun mounted on tripod.
10:49:09 Soldiers w/ rifles & dog on field, fall on ground, point & talk.
10:49:32 Russian cavalry maneuvers on horseback, riding past camera standing up.
10:50:04 Tsar & others off launch; Tsar inspects troops. Tsar and family in carriages past troops at attention.
10:51:19 Pan over crowd gathered in front of Winter Palace, cheering; tilt up to flag on pole above building & back down to crowd waving.
10:51:57 Soldier w/ flag to Priest at podium in front of Kremlin; soldiers take oath. Kiss bible; kiss flag.
10:53:17 Tsar inspects troops at Kremlin.
10:53:54 Military march past.
10:54:31 Troops walk motorcycles past camera, followed by military vehicles past Kremlin.
10:55:43 Troops & marching band down wide street / beside square; camera behind line of light poles, troops pass both sides.
10:56:25 Women folk dances next to railway train before troops depart.
10:57:13 Troops in trenches & behind berms firing rifles - advance.
10:57:43 Russian officers & Tsar walking past log barracks; German General (captured?) beside railroad cars. Orders posted on notice board & read.
10:58:43 Tsar inspects troops. Religious services in field w/ troops, priests, choir or signing. Troops leave, march down road.
11:00:15 Troops by artillery emplacements & in trenches, MCU drinking tea; soldier using periscope, soldier using field telephone. Cannons / gun firing.
11:01:44 Cossack dancing by troops in street (scratched); celebrations.
11:02:23 Soldiers in foggy conditions, some on horseback near tall cross, stones & grave.
11:03:09 Wounded carried from railway car - into carriages & trams. (at 11:03:22 time code reverses).
Russian Homefront; 1910s; WW1; Royalty;
NOTE: 11:01:44 matches 11:01:51 on 220505.
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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