Fighting Film Collection No. 6
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Fighting Film Collection No. 6 Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 6 ) is the sixth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in November 1941. It contains three segments: "Boyevaya pesnya o slave russkogo orujiya/Battle Song about the Glory of Russian Weapons", "Nenavist/Hatred", "Pir v Zhirmunke/Feast in Zhirmunka", plus British documentary "Airwoman", depicting the activities of Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Natasha Matveeva (Zoya Fyodorova ), the main character of the movie Frontovye podrugi
The following weapons were used in the film Fighting Film Collection No. 6 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 6) :
Revolvers Nagant M1895 Red Army Lt. (Sergei Markushev ) holds a Nagant M1895 revolver when he escorts downed German pilot (Sergey Martinson) in "Hatred". This is a pre-1930 version.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian Nagant 1895, produced 1920s - 7.62x38N. The rounded front sight is a sign of revolvers produced from 1890s until 1930. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Lt. draws his revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Nagant. Pistols M1911 In "Feast in Zhirmunka" a German Feldwebel (Aleksandr Rumnev ) is armed with an M1911 pistol.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Original Colt M1911 (dated 1913) - .45 ACP Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Feldwebel draws his pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of M1911. Rifles Mosin Nagant M1891/30 In the final sequence Red Army soldiers carry Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Berdan No.2 Berdan No.2 rifles are used by many partisans in "Feast in Zhirmunka".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian Berdan No.2 (M1870) Infantry rifle - 10.67x58mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing An aged man gets a Berdan rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing He examines the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A pile of Berdan rifles. Several shotguns are also seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A bandaged partisan hands guns to his comrades-in-arms. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One more villager gets a rifle. Tokarev SVT-40 SVT-40 rifles are seen in hands of Red Army soldiers in documentary footage.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Tokarev SVT-40 - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabinek wz. 1929 Most German soldiers in "Feast in Zhirmunka" are armed with Mauser rifles. Their outlook with straight bolt handles, large protectors of the front sight and full-length handguards with grooves and notches match Polish Karabinek wz. 1929 rifles, used by Wehrmacht as Gewehr 298 (p).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Polish Karabinek wz. 1929 - 7.92x57mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers stand in formation. Most of them are armed with Wz. 29 rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier knocks in the door with the buttstock of his rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the bayonet. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers break in a house. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier in Grandmother Praskovya's house. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two rifles are seen at the wall at the left. Karabiner 98AZ Some German soldiers are armed with Karabiner 98AZ rifles (or possibly its Polish version Karabin wz. 98a).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser 98AZ Artillery Carbine - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A 98AZ rifle is seen in center. Mauser Gewehr 98 German soldiers are also seen with full length Mauser rifles, possibly Mauser Gewehr 1898 or some derivative, like Czech Vz. 98/22.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: Mauser Gewehr 1898 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: BRNO Vz.98/22 Czech Mauser - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier in center holds a full length Mauser rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the soldiers in formation holds a full length Mauser. Shotguns Double Barreled Shotgun In "Feast in Zhirmunka" some partisans are armed with Double Barreled Shotguns . Onisim Petrovich Petrov (Pavel Geraga ) has a gun that looks like a triple barreled shotgun but upon closer inspection it appears to be a double barreled shotgun, fitted with a fake "barrel" under two real ones (the reason of such design is unknown).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing An aged villager (Vasili Novikov) holds a shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing He opens the gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Onisim Petrov with his "triple gun". Error creating thumbnail: File missing The fake barrel of Onisim Petrov's shotgun is seen at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A general view of Onisim Petrov's shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pyotr Petrov's wife (Aleksandra Danilova ) carries a double barreled shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing She carries the shotgun. Mosin Nagant/Frolov Shotgun In "Feast in Zhirmunka" some partisans are armed with bolt action Mosin Nagant/Frolov Shotguns .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing "Frolovka" shotgun Error creating thumbnail: File missing "Frolovka" shotgun Error creating thumbnail: File missing A villager at the left holds a bolt action shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel of this shotgun is seen at the left while a man in center holds another "Frolovka", this one with Mosin magazine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel of the gun of the man in center is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Onisim Petrovich Petrov (Pavel Geraga ) holds the "Frolovka" of his son Pyotr (Vladimir Uralsky ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pyotr carries his "Frolovka". Machine Guns Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS ShKAS machine guns are used on Soviet airplanes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS aircraft machine gun - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two ShKAS machine guns are mounted on top of the engine on I-16 fighter plane. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS aircraft machine gun - 7.62x54mmR. This is a turret version. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Twin ShKAS is mounted in a turret on SB bomber. Berezin UB Berezin UB machine guns are mounted on Soviet Pe-2 bomber.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Berezin UBK (for the wings) - 12.7x108mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of frontal UB on Pe-2. Browning .303 Mk II Bristol Blenheim Mk IV bomber, seen in documentary footage in "Airwoman", is armed with five Browning .303 Mk II machine guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Browning .303 Mk II - .303 British Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two remotely controlled machine guns beneath the nose and two in dorsal turret can be seen here. Degtyaryov DT Degtyaryov DT is seen mounted on T-37 light tank.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Model 24 Stielhandgranate "Potato Masher" high-explosive fragmentation hand grenade Error creating thumbnail: File missing German soldiers carry stick hand grenades. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier carries a grenade. Trivia Holsters Error creating thumbnail: File missing In "Hatred" Red Army Lt. (Sergei Markushev ) carries a Nagant M1895 revolver in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing In "Feast in Zhirmunka" a German Feldwebel (Aleksandr Rumnev ) carries a TT-33 holster thought his sidearm is an M1911 pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing In the final sequence Red Army Lt. (Nikolay Kryuchkov ) carries a Nagant holster. Musket Mockups Mockups of flintlock muskets are widely seen in footage from Soviet historical movies Pyotr Pervyy (1937) and Suvorov (1940).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Scenes of Battle at Poltava in Pyotr Pervyy . Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Scenes of Suvorov's Swiss campaign in Suvorov . Artillery 122 mm howitzers M1910/30 are seen in documentary footage.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Replicas of XVIII century muzzleloading cannons are seen in footage from Soviet historical movies Pyotr Pervyy (1937) and Suvorov (1940).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cannons in Pyotr Pervyy . Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cannons in Pyotr Pervyy . Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cannons in Suvorov . Armour Error creating thumbnail: File missing T-37 tank. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pz.III tank. Airplanes Soviet, German and British airplanes are seen in documentary footage.
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