From the history of Soviet cinema (1937-1939)

The abbreviated name of the OGPU State Optical and Mechanical Plant (GOMZ) above the entrance to the main building.

Lens blanks.

The lens grinding process.

View of a semi-automatic lens grinding line.

A worker removes a ground lens from the machine.

Finished lenses on a pallet.

Samples of the plant's finished products.

A film projector with a lens manufactured by GOMZ. Assembly of film projectors in one of the plant's workshops.

Finished film projectors lined up.

Testing the operation of a narrow-film projector.

Testing the operation of film projectors of various models.

A plate with the brand name of the film projector next to the lens opening.

Samples of film projection equipment manufactured by the plant in 1939. Types of parts of a KINAP brand tube amplifier.

The internal structure of a tube amplifier.

Tube amplifiers manufactured by the Moscow KINAP-Konvas plant in 1939. The plant's brand label.

The process of manual assembly of film-making equipment mechanisms, testing the operation of film cameras.

The face of the head of the film-making equipment assembly section.

Finished products of the plant.

Quality control department employees check the quality of assembly of film-making equipment.

Demonstration of the technical capabilities of a new film camera.

Stereo image created by a film camera.

A sign with the name of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

One of the teachers conducts a lesson with students from his workshop.

Students act out a scene during an acting lesson.

Film director S. M. Eisenstein conducts an analysis of the lesson.

Eisenstein talks to one of the students.

VGIK students during a painting lesson, the teacher points out mistakes in painting portraits.

Students of the camera department during a lesson on studying film equipment.

Faces of students sitting in the audience.

A practical lesson at the camera department, a student works with a film camera.

A scientist observes the development of organisms in an aquatic environment, footage of the germination of one of the aquatic plants (slow motion).

The process of filming the simplest microorganisms, the process of division of the simplest organism, filmed on film.

The cameraman rotates the handle of the camera, installed vertically above the microscope.

Microorganisms under the microscope.

The mechanism synchronizing filming with lighting, the cameraman at work, sprouting plant shoots (slow motion).

Fish in an aquarium.

Jellyfish in the water.

Cameramen film aquarium fish using special devices.

A cameraman films birds in a swamp.

Skis on the cameraman's feet for moving around the swamp.

A bird in a nest feeds its chicks.

A cameraman in a shelter while filming the life of birds.

View of a hut built by a cameraman.

Birds of various species, filmed on film.

A flying flock of birds.

A flying airplane.

A cameraman films from the open cockpit of an airplane.

Mountain landscape under the wing of an airplane.

A cameraman films a caravan of camels in the desert.

A cameraman films while standing on the deck of a torpedo boat.

A torpedo boat on the water during exercises.

Preparing a movie camera for underwater filming.

A cameraman in a diving suit during a dive.

A cameraman underwater.

Preparing for filming in the Far North in 1937. A cameraman films.

View of one of the tents of the drifting expedition of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, polar explorers improving the territory.

A cameraman turns the handle of a movie camera while standing on the tribune of the mausoleum.

The Soyuzkinohroniki truck, an Abyssinian soldier stands next to it.

A cameraman in a pith helmet.

Spanish communists shake hands with Soviet cameramen, including Carmen R.L. The icebreaker Sedov at the Arkhangelsk roadstead.

A lifebuoy with the name of the icebreaker.

Cameramen filming on the deck of the icebreaker.

Panorama of the building of one of the film studios.

View of one of the corridors of the film studio.

The process of editing the film, faces of the film workers.