{"id":1325,"ia_identifier":"gov.archives.arc.44142","programme":"nara","naid":"44142","local_identifier":"242-MID-5181","pin":null,"title":"NATIVE SONGS","year":1948,"date_raw":"1948-01-01T00:00:00Z","creator":"War Department. Military Intelligence Division","description":"National Archives and Records Administration NATIVE SONGS War Department. Military Intelligence Division. (08/26/1918 - 04/19/1947) ARC Identifier 44142 / Local Identifier 242-MID-5181. SUMMARY: Made in Byelorussia (White Russia), 1949, this is a musical film featuring native songs and dances, sung and performed by young people. Reel 1: A Shepherd plays a flute, flowers open, a boy and a girl appear among the trees. The girl does a waltz of spring in the pastoral setting. Other couples appear and a group of girls sing a lively song to an accordion. Afterwards they all walk into \"the cultural park\" under an arch decorated with Lenin's and Stalin's pictures. Reel 2: After dancing the polka, the couples drift in rowboats. Sailors dance on deck and wave to the girls on shore. A girl on shore sings a sad song as boys go off to the army. On their return the sailor and soldiers are greeted with flowers. Reel 3: Various dances at the station: group dancing, solo, comic dances, etc. In the evening two fellows out strolling meet a couple. In dance pantomime, they lure her away from her accordion-playing boy friend, then fight over her. At the end of the dance she goes back to her boy friend as the two fellows move on. In the morning a group of young girls rise from the flowers in the field, sing and dance. Reel 4: A girls sings while she wields a sickle. In the background, girls cut wheat. Before a statue of Stalin the girls hold bundles of grain in symbolic pose. A winter dance follows with snow and sliding down an incline. As a finale, groups sing and form pyramids under huge pictures of Stalin and Lenin. Thousands wave banners in a stadium. Made possible by a donation from Veronica Alzalde.","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/","collections":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-anon3242","fav-goldeelawks","fav-isaac_asimov_iii","fav-karah515","fav-lucy_theodora","fav-mjbtglis","fav-quickfoundnet","fav-rebecca_vera","fav-shirish_sarkar","fav-uwiemey","fav-veitchep","fav-zed_zed915"],"ia_metadata":{"_rg":"242","date":"1948-01-01T00:00:00Z","year":1948,"title":"NATIVE SONGS","creator":"National Archives and Records Administration","credits":"Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org","subject":["archives.gov","public.resource.org"],"_rg_holder":["National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized","outside"],"collection":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-anon3242","fav-goldeelawks","fav-isaac_asimov_iii","fav-karah515","fav-lucy_theodora","fav-mjbtglis","fav-quickfoundnet","fav-rebecca_vera","fav-shirish_sarkar","fav-uwiemey","fav-veitchep","fav-zed_zed915"],"identifier":"gov.archives.arc.44142","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/","description":"National Archives and Records Administration NATIVE SONGS War Department. Military Intelligence Division. (08/26/1918 - 04/19/1947) ARC Identifier 44142 / Local Identifier 242-MID-5181. SUMMARY: Made in Byelorussia (White Russia), 1949, this is a musical film featuring native songs and dances, sung and performed by young people. Reel 1: A Shepherd plays a flute, flowers open, a boy and a girl appear among the trees. The girl does a waltz of spring in the pastoral setting. Other couples appear and a group of girls sing a lively song to an accordion. Afterwards they all walk into \"the cultural park\" under an arch decorated with Lenin's and Stalin's pictures. Reel 2: After dancing the polka, the couples drift in rowboats. Sailors dance on deck and wave to the girls on shore. A girl on shore sings a sad song as boys go off to the army. On their return the sailor and soldiers are greeted with flowers. Reel 3: Various dances at the station: group dancing, solo, comic dances, etc. In the evening two fellows out strolling meet a couple. In dance pantomime, they lure her away from her accordion-playing boy friend, then fight over her. At the end of the dance she goes back to her boy friend as the two fellows move on. In the morning a group of young girls rise from the flowers in the field, sing and dance. Reel 4: A girls sings while she wields a sickle. In the background, girls cut wheat. Before a statue of Stalin the girls hold bundles of grain in symbolic pose. A winter dance follows with snow and sliding down an incline. As a finale, groups sing and form pyramids under huge pictures of Stalin and Lenin. Thousands wave banners in a stadium. Made possible by a donation from Veronica Alzalde."},"status":"not-federal","reason":"Not asserted: its local identifier places it in NARA record group 242 (National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized), which holds material made outside the federal government; the body named in the record, War Department. Military Intelligence Division, is the custodian that seized or received it, not its maker. Whatever its copyright position, it is not a work of the United States Government under 17 U.S.C. 105.","flags":[],"loaded_at":"2026-09-05 17:30:32.534499+00:00","downloads":1651}