Summary: An American re-editing of the news film taken by 160 cameramen as part of an attempt at extensive coverage on one day of war in Russia.
Description: The film begins and ends with the balloon barrage over Moscow, and in between covers all fronts: the war waged in different ways by all three services, partisans and civilians, industry and agriculture, and politicians; the film also ranges geographically from behind the German front (a partisan skirmish, the execution of a collaborator) to the Far East (women crew a fishing boat off Kamchatka, gunboats patrol river border with Japanese-occupied territory); from the centre and South (Baku oil fields, agriculture and herding) to the Finland front (a patrol of ski troops); and includes film of Molotov, Stalin and three new "Heroes of the Soviet Union" in Moscow, and of Leningrad under siege, of a Red Navy submarine, and of Red Air Force fighters and bombers. The film's climax, however, is a good sequence of ground fighting action, with infantry and T-34 tanks engaging German tanks and AT guns.
Alternative Title:MARCH OF TIME [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:CSU 211
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1942
Production Country: USSR
United States of America
Production Details: Time/Life (Production sponsor)
March of Time (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin (person)
Stalin, Josef (person)
Red Army (regiment/service)
Soviet Air Force (regiment/service)
SOVIET NAVY (regiment/service)
Soviet Union partisans (regiment/service)
