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The film tells about the origins of writing and modern technologies of paper production.
People buy newspapers at a street kiosk.
The box is packed in paper.
On the conveyor, triangular bags of milk, packs of butter are packed in paper candy wrappers.
Loess, special equipment is working.
Pieces of furniture made of plastic.
The paper is inserted into the telegraph machine.
An image from outer space appears on the paper.
They put the paper in the washing machine, turn on the washing mode, then drain the water, take out a wet washed sheet, squeeze it out, unfold it - it is practically not damaged.
A sheet of paper is held over a burner with a flame - the sheet does not light up.
In the sky - a tank descends by parachute, Large - domes of parachutes.
The tank lands on the field.
Stands with different samples of paper products.
Printing shop - machines are working.
Kalininsky Prospekt, book houses.
Large - book.
Newspapers are printed in the printing house.
Printing shop, machine tools, equipment, conveyor.
Printing books.
Large - large roll of paper in the workshop.
Envelopes, paper in drawers.
Envelopes are stamped, automatic typewriters work, a message is printed on the fax tape and similar plans.
Project office.
Employees are behind the culmans.
Large - there are rolls of papers on the table.
Employees of the bureau at work.
Large - spinning reels with magnetic tape.
A woman at the control panel of an electronic computer.
The employee is typing.
Large - voice recorder with magnetic tape.
The secretary answers the call, receives a telephone message, records it on a dictaphone, then records a message for the boss on the dictaphone.
Large - the reels of the dictaphone are spinning.
Large - on the table phone, dictaphones.
Drawing contest for children - children draw on the street on large sheets of paper.
Women in the barber shop dry their hair, read books.
A man on the bus is reading a book.
Large - a girl in class, writing in a notebook.
School class - children at their desks, writing in notebooks.
The reading room of the library, people work with books at the tables.
People in the park, on the lawn, on benches reading books.
Photos - Egypt, pyramids, Sphinx, colossi of Memnon.
Sarcophagi of pharaohs, hieroglyphs, ancient columns, ancient writings on stones.
Photos - stone books, clay tablets, printing.
Large - in the hands of a wooden stick with text.
Frames with different samples of letters and texts - on stone, metal, bamboo sheets, etc.
Large - the hand writes with a stick on a wax tablet.
Large - hands open an old birch bark book with an Old Slavonic text.
A large-antique scroll, a book with hieroglyphs.
A wrapper from a pack of typographic paper.
Stone statue of the Sphinx.
Pictures of Ancient Egypt, an Egyptian who makes papyrus.
Large - text on papyrus.
The drawing is a repository of papyri in the Library of Alexandria.
Drawing - the city of Pergamon.
Photos - ruins of the Pergamon Library, views of Ancient Pergamon.
Pergamon altar, Mitre.
Large - calf.
A flock of sheep with a shepherd.
Chronicle of the 1930s - processing of sheep skins.
An old book with a hole in the page.
A big old book with locks.
The large inscription on the cover is "Virgilius".
Pages of old books.
Key words
Book, printing house, kulman, paper, papyrus
Calendar: 1930
Seasons: Summer
The picture is an ancient paper production process in China.
Animation insert - a Chinese takes bamboo, makes paper from it, a Tajik from Samarkand makes paper from cotton, in Spain - paper from rags.
An old library.
Books chained up.
Vintage books on shelves and stands.
Large - in the hand of a miniature book.
Large cover - "Russian newspapers 1704".
Page of the first Russian newspaper.
There are old books on the table.
Trees are being felled in the forest.
Trees are floated down the river.
The wood is sawn, prepared for production.
General view - a workshop for harvesting and processing wood.
Various stages of the production process.
Wood shavings on the conveyor.
Then there are shots of the entire process of producing paper from wood.
There are large rolls of finished paper in the workshop.
Large - the flame of fire, the cross is burning.
Picture - medieval Inquisition burns books.
Large - paper burns in the fire.
Chronicle of the 1930s and 1940s - a swastika of people, a torchlight procession, a burning cross, people throwing books into the bonfire.
Large - fire, burning paper.
A burnt old book.
Hands with a magnifying glass, a page of a damaged book.
Large - the face of an expert restorer.
Restorers in the process of restoring books.
Customers in a bookstore.
Portraits of A. S. Pushkin, M. I. Glinka, K. S. Stanislavsky, L. N. Tolstoy.
Photo of V. I. Lenin.
Library storage.
Key words
Paper, book, library
Calendar: 1930-1940