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Unidentified WWI, Vladivostok? 220681-01 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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Unidentified item WWI
Aerial views dock / industrial areas.  
17:01:38  Ships, boats / barges on river? w/ Russian churches beyond.  View from ship.
17:02:42  Unid. VIP greets others as they leave building; shaking hands.  CU of ??  Long line of people shake hands w/ him as they leave, civilian & military.  Civilian men, women & children watching.  Stalin in military uniform?  British, Americans.
17:04:22  Interior military office, man writing at desk.  Dissolve to several men in room.
17:04:32  US (?) military band off ship.  
17:04:50  Dock workers standing; soldiers w/ fixed bayonets down gangplank of camouflaged ship.  Troops assemble on dockside.  Supplies unloaded from ship - sacks of flour in sling onto wagon w/ horse.  Women in Eastern European clothes move large bags of flour from wagon to dock & into small sailing barges.  Rowed away from camera.  
17:08:17  Children pose for camera, one holding milk carrier (?) Given biscuits.  CU smiling boy w/ biscuit.  Pan down boy's clothing to US belt buckle & leggings.  Other kids.
17:09:22  Soldiers making purchases in street market - looks Czech or Russian.  Soldiers buying mittens.  17:11:07  Red Cross flag raised on building in ceremony watched by soldiers & nurses.  Military band down street.  Prisoners?  CU native faces, laughing.  Heavy clothes.  
17:13:02  Pan across bay to sawmill & logs.  Logs pulled up,  Interior sawmill, sawing wood.  Timber yard.  Women collect wood loaded onto carts from sawmill.  US soldiers in yard.  Locals digging fields, clearing tree stumps - mostly women & girls.  
17:15:28  Town center, tram / street car up & past.  Biplane taking off from grass aerodrome.
Hunger; Famine; Food Relief; Post-WWI; Vladvistock (?), Russia (?);

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