Blossoming Youth
About Blossoming Youth
On 18 July 1939 athletes parade across Red Square in Moscow. The film is a color record of that parade: columns, flags, and the field of the square.
Cast & crew
More about Blossoming Youth
Aleksandr Medvedkin directed. V. Feinberg was second director; the catalog lists Feinberg as director. Work on the experimental three-color film began on 16 July 1939, two days before the parade. Fyodor Provorov was technical head and color cinematographer, with V. Gardanov, A. Atakishiev, and M. Magid. It was shot on the three-film TsKS-1 camera and printed by P. Mershin's hydrotype process, chromated gelatin. The print is given as two parts, 493 meters.
Themes
Background
The parade was held on Red Square on 18 July 1939, weeks before the war in Europe began.
Making
Assistant G. Kabalov worked on the unit. V. Fridman was the engineer for the color processing.
Look
Three color negatives were shot on the TsKS-1 camera and printed by Mershin's hydrotype method.
Technique
The picture is a three-color record, not a tinted black-and-white print. The camera split the scene onto three films.
Preservation
The film is held at the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents. Nikolai Mayorov restored it.
Notes
- Russian Wikipedia calls it the first Soviet three-color film.
- A page timing of the surviving picture is 17 minutes 26 seconds. The listed length is 18 minutes.
- Nikolai Mayorov restored it.
- It was cut into Chris Marker's The Last Bolshevik (1993).
Scenes
- Athletes cross Red Square in the color parade of 18 July 1939.
Influenced
- The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Цветущая юность.webm)