The First Flight to the Stars.

The First Flight to the Stars. , 1961 (54:59)

Annotation: About the first space shot of Yuriy Gagarin.

History: April 12, 1961 in the Soviet Union has been committed by the world's first space flight on board the spaceship "Vostok-1". On board the ship was Soviet cosmonaut YA Gagarin. April 14, 1961 Moscow met YA Gagarin.

Film description: Meeting Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the airfield. Khrushchev welcomed the first cosmonaut of the planet. Gagarin report to his Khrushchev (sinhr.). A car with Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev on the streets of Moscow. The rally in Red Square. Speeches Khrushchev, Yuri Gagarin from the podium of the Mausoleum. Working people of Moscow are on Red Square. Landscape Smolensk region. Townscape Besatska. House parents Gagarin. Types of Saratov. The building of an industrial technical school, where he studied Gagarin. Orenburg flying school, where he studied Gagarin. The instructor has been working with the cadets. Members of the cosmonaut corps engaged on simulators at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Doctors check the health of the astronaut, watching him in the vibro-chair, in the pressure chamber. Members of the cosmonaut team play volleyball, practicing in the pool, parachute, tested in surdobarokamere in a centrifuge. Meeting astronauts with Air Marshal KA Vershinin. Scientists trained to fly a spaceship "Vostok" equipment, banks with plants, seeds, bacteria. Preparation of the ship "Vostok" for launch. Doctors examine the Gagarin before the flight. Gagarin in space-suit rides the bus, rises in an elevator in the cabin, sits down in a spaceship. Gagarin flight, said at the time of flight (sinhr.), members of Mission Control Center monitor the flight of the spacecraft. Gagarin, after landing, flying in an airplane. Reception at the Kremlin in honor of Yuri Gagarin. Leonid Brezhnev, Gagarin award the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Source description 1: A rocket spaceship is flying high above, leaving a smoke track behind.
White clouds in the blue sky.
Rainbow hanging above the yellow field – общ.
People from different countries: black and white, religious and erudite, children of different nationalities.
Crimean observatory.
Scientist by the telescopes.
The ruins of Babylon.
Ancient Egyptian pyramids.
The pyramid and sphinx.
Pictures of people’s dreams about the flight to space.
The newsreel of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921.
Shots from the feature film “Aelita” about the flight of the rocket to the Moon.
Shots from the film “Space flight” about the man’s flight to the Moon.

The streets of Moscow on the day of meeting the first world’s astronaut Yuri Gagarin.
“Il-18”, escorted by the jet fighters in the air.
A solemn meeting of Yuri Gagarin on the Vnukovo airdrome.
Yuri Gagarin is reporting to Nikita Khrushchev about the successful completion of the flight to space on board the ship “Vostok-1” [“East-1”].
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, А.N. Kosygin, F.R. Kozlov, К.Е. Voroshilov, Е.А. Furtseva, N.Т. Ignatov, О.V. Kuusinen and others.
Heads of the communist party and government, relatives, Muscovites greeting and congratulating Gagarin.
Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin going down the streets of Moscow in a solemn car procession; Muscovites warmly greeting the astronaut on the whole way from Vnukovo to the Red Square.
Helicopters are dropping the leaflets with Gagarin’s portrait on it.
Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin at the tribune of the Mausoleum.

Source description 2: A mass-meeting on the Red Square in the honor of the first flight of a man to space.
Khrushchev is speaking from the tribune of the Mausoleum.
Listeners at the meeting.
Dutch director Yoris Ivens is listening.
А.I. Mikoyan, Leonid Brezhnev, F.R.Kozlov, Nikita Khrushchev, Yuri Gagarin, К.Е. Voroshilov are at the tribune of the Mausoleum.
A panorama of people present at the meeting listening and applauding. .
The quay of the Neva River near the Zimny Dvorets [the Winter Palace] in Leningrad.
A sculpture of the double eagle with a crown.
The Tower of the Petropavlovskaya Fortress [the Peter and Paul Fortress].
The prison cell in which Kibalchich was imprisoned.
The picture of a rocket, drawn by Kibalchich before the death penalty.
The portrait of Kibalchich.
A dove sitting on the window-sill of the prison cell of the castle.
The Tower of the Petropavlovskaya Fortress.
A panorama of the house of Tsiolkovsky in the city of Kaluga.
The workshop of Tsiolkovsky, located on the terrace.
The newsreel of 1927.
Tsiolkovsky working in his workshop on the model of an airship.
A monument to Tsiolkovsky in the city of Kaluga.
A panorama of the Kaluga streets.
The inscription on the monument.
Nikita Khrushchev continuing his speech in the Red Square.
The newsreel of 1917-1920.
Lenin in the Red Square.
A four-winged airplane is flying over the Red Square.
An airship is flying over the Red Square.
The airship is flying.
People watching the airship.
Lenin is watching the airship flying.
A panorama of the balloon rising up in the sky.

A plane is flying over one of the regions of Arctic.
The plane, on board of which Chkalov made a flight to America, in the air.

The newsreel of 1936.
Americans are meeting Valery Chkalov, Belyakov and Baydukov.
The meeting of Chkalov, Belyakov and Baydukov who have made a nonstop flight USSR – USA in Moscow.

Happy demonstrates are marching down the Red Square enthuastically greeting the astronaut.
Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin greeting the demonstrates.
Exulting demonstrates.
Yuri Gagarin is telling about himself
Russian spring landscapes.
The places of battles with Hitler time aggressors in the Smolensk region, covered with growing grass.
A monument to the Heroes who have died in the battles for the liberation of the town of Gzhatsk in 1941-1942.
The landscapes of the suburbs of the town of Gzhatsk. Spring.
The house of Yuri Gagarin’s parents in the town of Gzhatsk.
Yuri Gagarin’s mother near the house.
Children are playing during a schoolbreak at the school in the town of Gzhatsk.
Apprentices of the vocational school of the town of Gzhatsk, where Gagarin used to study, are reading a newspaper with Yuri Gagarin’s picture.
A panorama of the street of the city of Saratov.
A panorama of the building of the Saratov industrial technical school, where Gagarin studied.
Students of the technical school.
Cadets of the aeroclub, attended by Gagarin, are passing-by along the field of Saratov airdrome.
Cadets are making their first flight on the training plane, making a flight maneuver called “barrel”.
The Volga river
Spring.
Cadets of flying school are marching in a line down the street of the city of Orenburg.
The Instructor Anatoly Kolosov is teaching the cadets of the flying school.
The signboard “The Orenburg High Military Flying School of the Air Forces”.
A board with a list of students who have finished the school in 1957, Yuri Gagarin is in the list.
The portrait of Yuri Gagarin on the board of the excellent students of the school.
Yuri Gagarin is going on telling about himself.

Source description 3: Models of the first satellites in a pavillon of the Exhibition of the Economic Achievements .
A design office is working on the problems of space exploration.
A computer is on.
The control panel of the computer.
A hand on the control panel.
A synchrophasotron.
Scientists are working at the synchrophasotron control panel.
Inside of the magnetic chamber a beam of protons is scattering, the rocket missile flight to the Moon, Soviet pennon on the Moon, automatic interplanetary station hovering, the picture of the invisible side of the Moon being taken.
A selection of the astronauts with the help of different devices.
Examination of health condition of the astronauts while tossing [flight simulator].
Astronauts with sensors fixed on their bodies sitting in the vibrochair; doctors watchig the readings of the sensors.
Testing of the astronauts in the altitude chamber.
Plotter devices are showing the cardiac performance in condition of the altitude chamber.
An astronaut is fainting in the chamber.
A doctor is performing an aid in the altitude chamber.
A group of astronauts, selected for the further trainings.
Yuri Gagarin and other astronauts are training in different kinds of sports: athletics, swimming, diving, parachute jumping with landing on the field and water.
Gagarin is making parachute-jumping from the tower and from the plane.

Source description 4: Yuri Gagarin is studding in the reading room.
Controlling devices in the chamber.
The devices show health condition of an astronaut in the anechoic room.
The astronaut German Titov is coming out of the anechoic room after many days of staying in it.
The astronaut is training in the conditions of overloads on a centrifuge.
Training of the astronaut in a state of weightlessness in a special plane.
Test probation of the astronaut Yuri Gagarin.
A friendly meeting of astronauts at Air Chief Marshal Vershinin’s.
The newsreel of the 1960-s:
Scientists are preparing the spaceship equipped with apparatus for checking of protection safety from space radiation and preparing specimens of the Earth life: bacteria, insects, cereals, plants, mice, the dogs named Belka and Strelka, dressed in special costumes with sensors
The outward of spaceship.
The elevator is going up to the top of a rocket.
The rocket taking-off.
Workers are letting the dogs out of the container that had landed after the space flight.
Press conference regarding the space flight of the spaceship with animals.
The dogs Belka and Strelka are being demonstrated at the press conference.
Press photographers at the conference.

Yuri Gagarin at home on the eve of his flight to space.
Yuri Gagarin is training in the centrifuge.
American newsreel:
Starting of the spaceship with monkeys on board.
The educated monkey named Ham.
Unsuccessful flight of the American space ship, the capsule with the monkey is falling into the ocean.
Examination of the monkey after the flight.
Press conference for the American astronauts.

A group of astronauts with Yuri Gagarin is going down the airdrome.
Yuri Gagarin is making a speech before the state committee.

Source description 5: The inscription on the spaceship “SSSR. Vostok” [“USSR. The East”].
The outward of the spaceship “Vostok” [“The East”] - (preparing for the starting).
The astronaut’s cabin, chair, control knob, pilot’s control panel, auto globe, TV camera, astronaut’s food container.
Food tubes.
Yuri Gagarin is sleeping before the start.
Different parts of the globe.
The camelcade in a desert .
Rookery.
Ices of the island of Greenland.
Starry sky, planets moving, asteroids.
Final health examination of Yuri Gagarin before the space flight.
The astronaut is being dressed up in a special costume for flight.
The astronaut and the retinue are going to the pad of the cosmodrome “Baikonur”.
Yuri Gagarin on the cosmodrome saying goodbye to the people seeing him off.
The elevator with the astronaut going up to the top of the rocket.
The astronaut taking his seat in the cabin, checking the connection and reporting about the readiness to the flight.
A panorama of the Spasskaya Tower and of the Red Square.
The Kremlin chiming clock showing the time: 9 hours 07 min.
Television Tower on the screen of a TV set.
Taking off of the rocket.
Clouds.
Radio locators.
Television centre.
The Earth globe, the Earth orbit is being drawn.
The radio announcer Levitan at the microphone.
Loud speakers in the street of Moscow.
People listening to the radio in the street.
An old lady wiping the tears of joy.
A marine on the Anichkov Bridge listening to the radio.

Source description 6: Television control panel: Gagarin in the flight on the screen of TV sets.
Television centre is having an intercommunication with the astronaut.
A night over the west hemisphere, a space ship is flying around the Globe.
A helicopter in the steppe.
The helicopter over the steppe.
A panorama of the flood in the forest.
The Volga River.
10 hours 55 min by the Kremlin chimes.
The space ship is flying around the Globe.
People with greeting transparency in the honor of the first astronaut passing by.
The exulted young people in the streets of the city, in the Red Square.
Yuri Gagarin after the flight is talking to a doctor and a sport commissar.
Talking over the phone to Nikita Khrushchev.
Soviet people greeting the astronaut Yuri Gagarin on the way to the plane.
Yuri Gagarin in the plane on his way to the place of rest.
Telephone operators of international connection transmitting the information about the space flight to different parts of the world.
The outward of the editorial office of the newspaper “Humanite” in Paris.
Parisians are viewing a portrait of Yuri Gagarin.
The exulted faces of the Arabs, Africans and others.
Yuri Gagarin among the fellows astronauts: G. Titov, А. Nikolaiev and others.
After resting, Yuri Gagarin is flying by plane to Moscow.
A “IL-18” plane, escorted by jet fighters in the air.
The trumpeters are playing.
Nikita Khrushchev, Yuri Gagarin with his wife and parents and others are heading to a government reception in the Great Kremlin Palace.
The reception in the honor of the first world astronaut Yuri Gagarin in the Georgiyevsky Hall in the Great Kremlin Palace.
Foreign guests are congratulating Gagarin.
Leonid Brezhnev is awarding Yuri Gagarin with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Nikita Khrushchev making a speech at the reception.
People in the Moscow Squares in the evening of April 14, 1961.
A salute over the Red Square.
Firework over the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.
Space rocket is taking off.

Directors: Kopalin I.

Script writers: Kublickiy G., Ryabchikov E.

Composers: Lokshin A., Sevastyanov A.

Announcer: Khmara L.

Text writers: Kublickiy G., Ryabchikov E.