在这部1921年俄罗斯饥荒纪实纪录片片中,PROPAGANDA. Appeal for donations to the Save The Children Fund for relief work in the Volga region of the USSR. "RL.1" shows the effects of the famine of the winter of 1921 and relief work in the Saratov district. "RL.2" apparently made separately during the autumn of 1922, shows recovery in Volsk and Kvalinsk. RL.1 Titles (90). A dog tearing at the frozen carcass of a horse on a snow-covered road in Saratov; a number of carts and pedestrians pass by (119). Peasant families who have abandoned their homes walking through the street (131-153). The children of these refugees are given soup by Red Cross? nurses (170-231) and are taken away in carts for disinfection (237-275), then loaded on hospital trains for the Ukraine (283-311). Refugees with horses and carts heading for the Ukraine (316-334). A number of abandoned children crouching in a hovel; one picks lice from the head of another (340-377). A dead child in the corner of a room (384-408). Three starving children in a hovel (408-432). A mother with three children sitting on the steps of a building; one of the children crying (456-469). Children running into a Save The Children Fund home for abandoned children as the gates are opened (478-499). Two children suffering from malnutrition eating from cans in the home (505-531). Child with swollen stomach (539-558). A nurse feeds soup to a starving child (566-590). A child nearly blind after eating grass (609). Four corpses in the street awaiting collection (609-624). A cart bearing a number of coffins arrives at the cemetery (636-657). Carts passing by mass graves (667-693). The contents of the coffins are emptied into a mass grave and the coffins set aside for re-use (702-799)[blank] (815). "FAMINE. Part 2". The famine area indicated on a map of Russia, and the route of food supplies from Britain (815-883). At Riga, sacks of flour are loaded into rail wagons (897). Mr. Webster of the STCF and the Soviet representative, Mr. Bierman, examine a map and plan the location of food centres (905-934). A Soviet armed guard checks the seals on the rail wagons carrying food supplies (946-998). The wagons arrive at Saratov (1010-1024). Webster inspecting the seals on the wagons (1038-1050). The wagons are unloaded under guard (1055-1105). STCF officials weigh the sacks (1113-1140). Ox-wagons outside the food stores. A camel pulling a cart. Men loading food sacks onto carts, which are pulled away by oxen (1242). Dr. Farrar, filmed three weeks before his death from typhus, distributes bread to a group of children (1259-1294). Fridtjof Nansen and Farrar emerge from a family's house in Saratov while inspecting relief work (1312-1341); Nansen watches a man making bread from substitute ingredients and with Farrar samples food at a village feeding station (1358-1382). Women preparing food at an STCF kitchen; opening cans of milk (1400-1443). Bread rations are distributed to children, who feed at long tables. One of the children has a nervous condition brought about by malnutrition (1505-1611). A country kitchen provided by Manchester Guardian readers opens its doors to children. Inside, they eat at table in front of STCF posters (1722). Titles appealing for donations are intercut with shots of starving children and smiling well-fed children (1808 ft). RL.2 Men carrying sacks from railway wagons onto a barge on the Volga (10-69). Views from the barge on the river (110). Volsk from the river (128-148). Traders in the market at Volsk. Two women traders sit beneath umbrellas; a customer examines a ladle (169-197). Bread is distributed to children at a food kitchen in Volsk. Armstrong Smith of the STCF walks up and down the tables (204-241). Food sacks are unloaded from a store onto carts (245-279). Armstrong Smith sets off by car with other officials on an inspection tour, watched by a crowd of children (299-320). The car is loaded onto a cable-guide ferry on the Volga (357). Peasants pulling wheat from the ground by hand (365- 409). Old-style threshing: one peasant scoops up the corn with a rake while others beat it with flails (415-439). Peasants eating a meal in the fields (443-460). Camels pulling haycarts; in the background are a number of peasants and a tractor (469-490). Women and children carrying sheaves (490-508). A peasant stands on a pole attached to a horse, by means of which he drives the corn in front of him (517-535). Gleaners in a field of stubble (541-565). Peasants pulling loaded haycarts (574-599). Armstrong Smith examining the corp (611-662). Uncultivated land (688). Armstrong Smith's car drives through a village, followed by a gaggle of children, and pulls up at the kitchen, which he enters (706-728). Smiling children (741)[blank] (750). Smiling children (782). STCF officers wave from a boat to a barge leaving Volsk (787-813). Kvalinsk from the river (827-842). Men carrying sacks down a gangway. Children walking up a hill, the buildings of Kvalinsk in the background (867). An empty lard barrel is trundled out from the food store, and a number of children run to scoop the sides clean (874-922). At the Kvalinsk kitchen ration coupons? are distributed. Children eating at long tables outdoors (1000). Titles exhort public to donate to prevent a repetition of the famine in the coming winter. Flashback shots of starving children (1117 ft). "The End" (2925 ft).
