Gold. From the "Mendeleev Table." (1996)

The film is about the place of gold in the chemical element, its properties, use, role and significance in the history of social development.

Periodic Table.

Experiments demonstrate the impact on gold with nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, aqua regia.

Mountain landscape.

Mountain ranges, glaciers, waterfalls.

A pile of golden sand.

Gold nuggets.

Drawings depicting mining and prospecting for gold, jewelry, experiments alchemists.

Gilded sculptures and architectural works of art.

Personnel news: mining prospectors and gold panning, gold mining dredge, smelting gold in industrial conditions, finished gold bullion; there is an automatic-collector circuits; spacecraft in flight.

Solar battery.

Storefronts and salesroom jewelry store.

The windows of women customers.

Closeups of various jewelry, including works of art.

Manufacturing processes of gold leaf.

Restorer-gilder gets gold leaf on wood carving.

Golden domes of churches and ecclesiastical objects.

Worship in a church.