“…Peasant masses on the streets, on Red Square. Peasants arrive in Moscow, railway station, arriving peasants go to the dormitory. …”

“…Vertov’s 1929 film records the progression of one full day synthesizing footage shot in Moscow, Riga, and Kiev. The film begins with titles that declare it “an experiment in the cinematic communication of visible events without the aid of intertitles, without the aid of a scenario, without the aid of theater.” …”

“…Map of the USSR, factory scenes, negotiations with Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish representatives in Moscow. Anti-clerical episode, the removal of icons from houses, mocking parade with priests and rabbis, "Atheist” posters , anti-religious demonstrations, pioneers and komsomol members, the opening of a monument to Herzen and Ogarev, komsomol 'Christmas', carnival, meeting on the anniversary of the revolution, parade on Red Square, soldiers in clubs, reading, plan for a monument to Timiriazev, Pokrovskii, Sosnovskii, and Timiriazev's son speaking at the meeting. …”