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KINO EYE On Its First Reconnaisance
First Series of a Cycle "Tapestry of life"
Production of the Film Office of Goskino.
THE FIRST Non-fiction Film Thing
Without Actors
Outside the Studios.
Film Organized by
DZIGA VERTOV
Camera Operator:
MIKHAIL KAUFMAN
KINO EYE
At the Church Holiday
or The Effect of Homemade
Vodka on the Village Women.
With the Village's "Young Pioneers."
Today is the International
Day of the Cooperative.
"Women Workers and Villagers, Go!"
Children's Cooperative.
With the City's Young Pioneers.
The Cooperative is Fighting...
the high Cost of Living.
Will You Help It?
The "Revolution" Troop was ordered
to investigate the marketplace.
Two girls, Kopuchuska and Anya.
The boy, Latishov.
How much is a drink?
Kopuchiska's mother is shopping for meat.
How much is the beef?
Don't buy from the private sector.
Buy from the cooperative.
At the Cooperative!
Moscow Province. Cooperative
of the Handicapped.
The First Red Supermarket.
The Cooperative receives meat
directly from the slaughterhouse.
Kino Eye moves time backwards.
What twenty minutes ago was a bull.
We give the bull back his entrails.
We dress the bull in his skin.
The bull comes back to life.
In the stockyards.
In the railroad cars.
Back to the herds.
The Young Pioneer, Latishov.
"A letter for you."
End of the first reel.
Morning at the camp of the Young Pioneers.
From the camp to the Cooperative.
Kopuchuska
Serving as the village barbers.
The tin shop helps the villagers.
The nursery children visit the camp.
We're Pioneers - New People.
You Can Trust Us.
Library.
"Thank you, children, you helped us a lot."
Kino Eye tells how this camp
was founded and built.
Gathering of the village troops.
Club House.
BE READY TO FIGHT FOR
THE WORKERS' STATE.
A few minutes remained
until the opening ceremony.
A worker.
A peasant.
"Now our children don't go to church,
but nonetheless I'm grateful."
The village's Young Pioneers.
"We, the village Pioneers,
will study with you."
"We will go with you step by step."
"Salute the flag!"
"Raise the flag!"
End of the Second Reel.
Kino Eye on the Chinese Magician.
How the Chinese magician
Chan-gi-Wan earns his bread.
Here is where the magic is.
"LOOK!"
"Look! A whole arm!"
Here is the arm, now you
see it, now you don't.
"There is nothing here.
"Nothing here."
"Now we'll make a live mouse."
The magician's pay is in units of bread.
From the Young Pioneer's diary:
"If the clock could go backwards,
the bread would return to the bakery."
Kino Eye continues
the Pioneer's thought.
From bread to dough.
From dough to batter.
The sacks of flour back on the wagon.
At the mill.
The rye returns to the railroad cars.
The mother of one Komsomol
and five Young Pioneers.
The Pioneers at the village nursery.
Borya, leader of the troop.
"We must help a poor widow."
The poor widow's hovel.
The widow.
The Young Leninists help her.
Threshing.
"A letter for you."
Coming back from work.
They bathe.
Kino Eye shows how one dives properly.
End of the third reel.
Up the river to the village of Sannikovo.
Borya.
Kino Eye witnesses the birth of
the village troop of Young Leninists.
"Lenin worked all his life and fought
for the workers and peasants."
"Young Leninists continue this work."
Last day with the peasants' children.
The storming of the camp.
Farewell to the village.
At the same time, an elephant visits
the Young Pioneers in Moscow.
Tired.
As heavy as 350 people!
6:00 a.m. On the way to the zoo.
Awakening.
End of the fourth reel.
Sleeping.
The homeless wake up.
The awakening of a cocaine addict.
The everlasting sleep.
The murdered citizen turned out to be I.
Udakov, a worker at the Mosselprom Brewery.
A girl named Shura.
Been
Alms for the Tubercular.
You smoke and drink.
You help Tuberculosis attack.
Our Ultimatum.
On Tverskoy Street.
The same place seen from a different angle.
On Sukharevka Street.
"Can you spare something?"
For the fight.
Against tuberculosis
At the tuberculosis sanitarium.
Kino Eye at a state "country home".
"Romashka!"
"Remember the dead!"
"You know Jesus Christ? That's me.
My hair is l-o-n-g..."
"I myself haven't been born yet."
"I demand you to stop the massacre!"
"You are a police officer of the old regime,
and it is unacceptable that the
Workers' Soviet don't know about it."
"look at me, men!"
"How unbelievably beautiful I am!"
"To hell with the icon! Bread is my God!"
Having been two weeks in the insane asylum,
"Scrip" has returned to Sukharevka Street.
"I don't take scrip."
"I don't give scrip."
"I don't take dollars either!"
The representative of flotsam.
Black market.
The paramedics.
"What happened?"
"An old man is out of breath.
Please help."
The sick man's wife.
MOS-SOVIET provides for
the workers' education.
Electricity gives millions of
horsepower to the village.
[Diagram explaining the workings
of a crystal radio receiver.]
Tuning, telephone and crystal
are labelled on the receiver.
But how can we use it?
Installation of the antenna.
In disbelief.
2000 meters of Kino Eye stride, soviet!
Battle between the new and the old,
culture film - Goskino - Moscow.