Home Movie: 005588 (silent)

Description: Travelers with a focus on Orthodox Christian rituals, processions, and architecture travel to Poland and Ukraine around 1930. With street views of Eastern Europe between the wars, and with a visit to the construction of the first Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, later destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the postwar era.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_Hydroelectric_Station
- accessed 7/2/2026

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Subjects: 1920s, 1930s, Religion, Parades and processions, Infrastructure, Labor, Women

Tags: parades; religious marches; Orthodoxy; holy week; devotional procession; Orthodox banners; Orthodox Christianity; Polish language signage; main streets; 1920s clothing; 1930s clothing; 1920s cars; Poland; Warsaw; Frederic Chopin statue; sculptor Wacław Szymanowski; monument; fountain; Soviet Union; Soviet Ukraine; Russian Orthodox church; Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant; Soviet constructivist architecture; Modern design; constructivism; Modernism; dams; Eastern Europe; manual labor; dam construction; laborers; women's labor; women working in construction; woman shifting gravel pile; greenhouses; orchards; farms; flowers; rural; travel and exploration

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Geoff Turner Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1930

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Geographical Location: Poland; Warsaw, Poland; Ukraine; Dnipro, Ukraine; Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; Soviet Union

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: negative

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square plus

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 111