A week of overtime on Traffic Control has prevented me from tinkering with my Time Machine-but at last I have my new Chronal Stabilizer installed! Let's take a trip....huh. Well, at least the Whirlwind Tour setting is limited to one continent …
A week of overtime on Traffic Control has prevented me from tinkering with my Time Machine-but at last I have my new Chronal Stabilizer installed! Let's take a trip....huh. Well, at least the Whirlwind Tour setting is limited to one continent now (grabs screwdriver)...
I have no information at all on B. Krinitsin, save that he or she possesssed a 16mm camera and did a great deal of filming around the Russian cities and countryside from 1910 to 1913. In this varied tour we see parts of the Moskva River, with nearby warehouses, markets and bazaars. Then we shift to the countryside and several smaller towns, where we encounter production processes in industry and agriculture, gold mining and workers at lunch, a local funeral, he opening of a monument to the poet Ivan Nikitin in nearby Voronezh....a shift later we are at a military training camp, then a tour of a school for the blind, sailors from the Russian Navy racing boats and dancing...another shift finds us at a local parade complete with massive public buffet for the youthful participants. Back to the countryside and we view a fitness contest, local meetings, picnics and walks-a concentrated dose of life in the recently-modernized Russia under Czar Nicholas II, with no one suspecting the Great War a year later, nor the resulting October Revolution of 1917 and the new regime it would bring...
The collected footage would eventually be released as the 50-minute documentary 'Russia That We Haved Saved' in the year 2000. Time had not been kind to the blurred and jittery footage during its stay in the State Film Fund-enter media restorer Guy Jones, who ran the best parts of the travelogue through an advanced AI filter to correct for speed, clean the blurs and scratches, preserve and enhance the classical soundtrack-and release the condensed Public Domain footage in a sprightly 14 minute trot through a land long gone from us. I lift my mug of spiced black tea with cream to Guy Jones and media restorers everywhere for this gift...B&W, Soundtrack.
