Siberia
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This film depicts the following aspects of life in Siberia: gold mining; the Tunkensky region; Buryat-Mongolia; the old Russian exile village of Kultuk; Lake Baikal; collective fishing; Olkhan Island; Shamans performing the "vodka ritual"; the Angara River; Irkutsk; the ancient Alexander Central Prison; the Tuturi Tungus tribe, known as the "reindeer people," who live in birch bark wigwams in the taiga north of Lake Baikal and now have their first hospital and school; the supposed last survivors of Lamaism, the religion of Tibet; and the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
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Although no release date has been confirmed, evidence indicates that the film May have been released in 1938. This film was part of an illustrated lecture program by documentary filmmaker Julien Bryan, in which he would speak for ten minutes preceding the film and then supply live narration to the motion pictures. A November 1934 Film Daily news item stated that Bryan's film footage of Siberia, said to be the first motion pictures taken by an American there, was to be shown in New York in the near future under the auspices of the American Russian Institute and that the film was at that time showing outside of New York. It is not known if that film was feature-length. The news item also stated that Bryan had spent the past few months in Siberia and Russia. Since 1930, Bryan had visited Russia yearly and filmed there. A two-reel film entitled Siberia, which was copyrighted on July 15, 1937 (MP8032) by Eastman Kodak Co. (Julien Bryan, author), May have had some footage in common with the 1934 presentations and this later compilation. For further information about Bryan, please for Russia Today.
