A Sixth Part of the World A Goskino Production Moscow First Edition: From border to border Distributed by Sovkino 1926 Author-Leader Dziga Vertov Assistant to the director E. Svilova Director of Photography: M. Kaufman Camera team: l. Beljakov, S. Bendersky, P. Zotov N. Konstantinov, A. Lemberg N. Strukov, J. Toltchan l - ln the land of Capital l see ... the golden chain of Capital Foxtrot Machines And you l see you ... and you ... and you ... and you You, l see ... in the service of Capital More machines And more And even more But for the worker it is just as ... just as ... difficult l see ... colonies Capital Colonies Slaves Capital Slaves Black people ... existing for amusement as Chocolate kids Capital Toys Canons Hatred Convulsions On the brink of historical downfall ... Capital ... celebrates You, bathing sheep in the waves of the sea And you, bathing sheep in the stream You in the Auls in Dagestan You in the Siberian taiga You to not get lost You ... in the tundra On the Pechora River ln the ocean And you ... who discarded Capital's authority in October ... and opened up the way to a new life ... for the country's oppressed You Tatars You Buryats Uzbeks Kalmyks Khakases Mountain dwellers from the Caucasus You, Komi, from the Komi district And you from the distant Aul You ... at the reindeer races And you ... at the feast of the Goat Slaughter At the signal of the steamer At the zurna and the drum You with the grapes And you at the rice You, eating raw reindeer meat You, drinking from mother's breast And you, lusty centenarian You mother, playing with your child You child, playing with the captured arctic fox You, unleashing the reindeer You, doing the laundry with your feet And you, sitting in the audience You ... knee-deep in grain Knee-deep in water You, spinning your flax in the spinning room You, spinning your wool in the mountains You ... all ... are the masters ... of the Soviet ... land ln your hands lies ... the sixth ... part ... of the world From the Kremlin ... to the Chinese border From the Matochkin Strait ... to Bukhara From Novorossiysk ... to Leningrad From the lighthouse at the Arctic Circle ... to the Caucasus Mountains From the golden eagle on the arm of the Kyrgyz ... to the eider on the cliffs of the Arctic Ocean ... to the owls of the North ... to the seagulls of the Black Sea All ... are in your ... hands Yours Yours are ... the buffalo The goats at the Ulu-Usen river The camels on the steps of Kyrgyztan The reindeer The Sibirian squirrel The Arctic Fox in the trap The marten The brown bear The sable of the High North The Karakul sheep All ... are yours Your factories Your plants Your oil Your cotton And the sheep The wool The wool The wool Your fat The fish Your flax Your tabacco And your immense wealth ... are yours Along every path in the Soviet Union roll goods for export Over country roads Over mountain paths And with camel caravans And there ... where the buffalo are harnessed to the carts There, where nomads lead their herds There ... where the herds cross the river There, where fruits are packed into boxes There ... where the Vogul unties the knot with his teeth There, where flax for export ... is brought to the harbour GOSTORG (State Trade Organisation) Where cisterns and reservoirs are filled with sunflower oil Where caviar is freighted The cattle The cement Where the grain ... in an endless stream ... flows into foreign freighters And there ... where not one single path leads Where, over a distance of thousands of versts ... one does not meet a single person ln the severe frost ln the snow banks of the endless tundra ... they fight their way to the State Trade Organisation's nearest collecting point ... to deliver their prey ... for export into capitalist countries Far away ... in the Arctic Circle ... where the sun does not set for half the year ... and nighttime lasts for half the year ... the Samoyedes sit motionless ... and look intensely towards the ocean Every year steamers from the State Trade Organisation come to them at Novaya Zemlya ... with dogs ... with flour ... with wood ... with textiles The Samoyedes are guests of the sailors On the gramophone they hear Lenin himself After 24 hours the steamer leaves again ... and takes fur with it ... and these furs arrive at the Leipzig Fair and in the capitalist country ... the furs, captured by Tungus, Ostyaks and Samoyedes, are traded for machines for the Soviet Union ... for machines that produce other machines Thus the land of the proletarian dictatorship ... and even the people still living in patriarchy ... by extension of the State Trade ... as far as these people may live ... builds up socialism Together with medium and small farmers, bringing their grain to the cooperative ... together with the farmers who receive a tractor from the cooperative ... for the collective cultivation of the soil Together with the male workers in the socialist plant Together with the female workers in the socialist factory The Black Sea The Black Sea And your Ship frozen in the Baltic Sea by the shore Frozen in the ice And one disappearing into the icy, unknown distance Here and there they dig up the earth with a stick Here and there there are still women with veiled faces Some still recite the rosary Some act crazy Somewhere the shaman performs his magic There are still places ... where a youth ritual is carried out for women There are still places ... where they still make sacrifices to the god Menkva Slowly the old is disappearing ... like you disappear into the icy distance Still they believe in the help of Muhammad Still they believe in the help of Christ ln the help of Buddha Or like the Tungus l see you ... Black Sea ... and your ship frozen in the Baltic Sea by the shore Frozen in the ice And you ... lcebreaker Lenin You break the ice with your chest We pave the way ... for our freighters ... to trade our grain ... to trade our furs ... for needed machines For machines that produce other machines ... which in turn accelerate the growth ... of our own ... production ... of machines l see ... a woman, who has abandoned the veil Another woman, who works under the women of the East A Samoyedic komsomol reading the newspaper The Nordic Buryats and Mongols reading the Buryat-Mongolic Pravda Mongol children joining a pioneer battalion For the support of the reindeer breeders a polar laboratory is being founded lrrigation canals are being built ... via waterless steps The electric light bulb enters the farmers house A reading house Ostrivsky - Reading house - Library And a radio presentation Volchovstroy Plants ... and more plants l see ... that we want to produce ... not only calico ... but also the machines, needed to produce calico We want to produce ... not only tractors ... but also the machines, needed to produce tractors We build ... in our country ... a complete ... socialist ... society We are a hub ... for the workers of the West A hub ... for the people of the East ... who stand up to fight ... against the yoke of Capital Oppressed countries ... gradually leaving the world capital They will pour forth into the stream of the united socialist economy lnto the stream ... of the united ... socialist ... economy The End