Complete Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library of Motion Pictures 16mm (1937)

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SECTION 1. (a) Travel and Geographical (Cont.) 29 3285 Russia (Leningrad and Industrj-) 1 Reel After a tour of the second most important town in the U.S.S.R. we inspect some of the factories tliat supply the country with its growing needs, and get a remarkable insight to the lives of the workers. 3286 Russia (Agriculture) 1 Reel The film opens with the peasants working under ])rimiti\T conditions ; then the Government introduces the collective system. Mechanisation arrives, crops increase. We are shown men and women at work on a collective farm, and bj watching their activities gain much knowledge of the progress being made. 3287 Manchukuo 1 Reel Beginning with a celebration of Japanese occupation, we are shown various aspects of the territory's industries and the lives of Japanese, Chinese and Russian inhabitants. 3288 Japan 2 Reels This film deals with social, industrial and agricultural life in Japan. We see the people at business, at their recreations, at home, and in factories. There is a scene in the puppet theatre at Osaka, and a glimpse of a religious festival. 3289 Turkey 2 Reels Opening in Ankora, with its new and old housing methods, new factories, new schools and new outlook on life, we move to Instanbul, gatewa} between Europe and Asia, where the streets of Oriental character contrast strangely with the means of traffic control. We also visit an agricultural fair, a veterinary school, and a students' training college. 3290 Siberia 2 Reels Travelling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, we are taken to the land of exiles. At the famous Alexandrovski Prison we see former political prisoners, and then make a tour of Irkutsk with its clinics and collective farms. Afterwards, on to Lake Baikal where men fish and seek gold, and the reindeer is the means of transport. Order by numbers. FOR PRICES SEE PAGE 3