1938 VISIT TO SOVIET UNION, SOVIET RUSSIA AMERICAN TOURIST HOME MOVIE KIEV KHARKOV MOSCOW 65084

Filmed by an unknown American tourist, this silent home movie shows a visit to Soviet Russia after twenty years. Presumably this means 20 years after the Revolution, or 1938. The film is notable because it presents a propaganda free look at life in the USSR just a few years before the outbreak of WWII, and during some of the worst purges in Soviet history. At :28 views of Kiev are seen including the old monastery at 1:01. At 2:08 Sports Day Parade is shown in the city with many floats including one at 2:35 showing Stalin. Men and women march by in athletic uniforms. At 3:48 a peculiar float rides by adorned with images of party officials. At 4:00 the Kiev stadium is shown for the Athletic Day events. At 5:45 an outdoor concert rehearsal is seen and at 6:30 a farming collective is shown. At 6:53 what might be beehives are seen. At 7:00 private plots of land are shown as well as houses. At 7:30 a mother or babushka poses with an infant. Kids are seen at 7:40, their heads covered with