Cineviews In Brief No. 12 (1937)

Full title reads: “Cineviews in Brief“. (number 12). Austria, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), Soviet Union (Russia, USSR), Ukraine (Crimea). L/S of pine covered mountain in Alps. M/S of rapid mountain river. Various shots of power station at mountain foot, designed to harness power of mountain streams. Various shots of two traditionally dressed Austrian peasants fitting a butter churn to a sluice crossing a river. The cream is poured into churn barrel, then as the water turns a cog on the sluice the churn rotates. Various shots of wooden channels diverting stream passed house. The peasants use the flow of the water to turn more cogs that work a conveyor belt. The belt carries logs up to the firewood store in top of house. Various shots of natural geyser in Herlany, Eastern Czechoslovakia. It is in a town square and has a pond built around it. Crowds of people surround it. M/S of male and female worker inspecting rows of plants on Soviet Collective Tobacco Plantation. C/U of plant. C/