Vladimir Shneiderov (1978)

Portrait of V.A. Shneiderov.

Director's console in the studio during the program "Film Travel Club", portrait of Shneiderov on the monitor screen.

Filming of the next episode of the program with the host Yu.A. Senkevich.

View of Shneiderov's office, glasses and a typewriter on the table.

Photographs of Shneiderov and souvenirs from foreign countries, various masks on the walls of the office.

Portrait of Shneiderov in his youth.

Newsreel of 1917: buildings and streets of Moscow after the October battles of 1917. A detachment of Red Guards passes along the street.

Views of Moscow streets in the early 1920s (from above).

View of the Bolshoi Theater, city and horse-drawn transport on Moscow streets.

Interior view of the editing shop of the film factory, women working with film at the editing tables.

The process of editing and splicing film.

Spectators in the cinema hall, an approaching train on the screen.

The lens diaphragm opens.

Airplanes at Khodynka airfield before the flight from Moscow to Japan in 1925. The face of a flight participant.

Shneiderov and other flight participants board the plane.

Pilots of one of the planes before takeoff.

The first plane taxis to the runway, people wave goodbye.

Pilots in the cockpit, the face of a passenger.

View of the area from above.

The face of Shneiderov looking out the window.

Meeting and filming of the flight participants in Krasnoyarsk.

The crew of one of the planes.

One of the pilots, Gromov M.M., stands by the plane.

A flying plane.

Flight participants after landing in Mongolia.

Choibalsan H. talks to the flight participants.

Faces of the Mongols.

View of one of the streets of Ulaanbaatar, people riding on horseback.

Mongols in national dress.

A telegraph machine is working, telephone operators are at the switchboard.

Landing of a Soviet plane in China.

The Chinese meeting the plane take off their hats and bow.

Cameraman G. Blum is filming.

View of the streets of Shanghai, a policeman at an intersection, cars and rickshaws on the streets of the city.

A homeless man sleeps on the sidewalk, a rickshaw carries a passenger.

Navy sailors at the gates of a foreign mission.

An American warship in the port.

A rally in honor of Soviet-Chinese friendship, a speaker is speaking.

Filming of the expedition to Pamir in 1928. Mountain landscape.

People and a horse slide down a snowy slope.

View of a mountain slope with an expedition climbing a path.

Faces of the leaders of the expedition Schmidt O. Yu., Shcherbakov D. I., Gorbunov.

Photograph by Shneiderov.

Newsreel of 1928: Schmidt O. Yu. during the Pamir expedition.

Geologists jump over an ice crevasse.

Expedition members walk along a glacier, one of them falls through.

People walk across an ice field, climb up a mountain along the ice.

Mountain landscape.

View of the bow of the icebreaker "Sibiryakov", a man stands on the bow of the icebreaker.

Broken ice overboard the icebreaker, "Sibiryakov" goes through the Arctic ice.

Captain Voronin V.I. on the bridge of the icebreaker.

Schmidt's face.

Radio operator Krenkel E. on board the icebreaker.

Schneiderov and Schmidt on board the icebreaker.

Installing a movie camera on a tripod on the deck of the icebreaker, Schneiderov gives the signal to start filming.

Polar bears on an ice floe.

Arctic landscape, polar ice.

The icebreaker is stuck in the ice, the crew is breaking the ice near the sides of the vessel.

Schmidt is conferring with the expedition members.

The crew members are carrying bags with cargo to lift the stern of the icebreaker.

Shneiderov lifts a sack onto his shoulders.

Emergency work on board the icebreaker.

View of the icebreaker's stern, raised above the ice.

Rigging the icebreaker with sails.

General view of the icebreaker with sail rigging installed on it.

Members of the expedition salute from guns after the icebreaker enters open water.

Panorama of the coast in the Bering Strait.

Portrait of Shneiderov during the expedition.

Photograph of Shneiderov at the camera.

Stills from Shneiderov's feature film "Golden Lake", views of the Altai taiga and landscapes.

An owl on a branch, a dancing shaman, bandits.

Stills from the feature film "Dzhulbars", footage of a fight with the Basmachi.

Newsreel from 1941: Shneiderov during filming in the Volga delta, birds flying.

German planes bomb Soviet cities, a burning building.

Frontline photograph of Shneiderov.

Newsreel from 1942: panorama of a part of the burning bank of the Volga in the Stalingrad area.

German tanks on the offensive.

An anti-tank rifle crew firing, a burning German tank.

Anti-tank artillery firing at German tanks.

View of a part of the river, a forest on the bank of the river (from above).

Mountain landscapes.

Portrait of Shneiderov, interiors of Shneiderov's office.

Glasses on the table, graphic portrait of Shneiderov.

Newsreel from 1957: cars drive through a mountainous desert area.

Shneiderov during the filming of the movie "Under the Sky of Ancient Deserts".

Members of the film crew at work.

Interior views of the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas in China, Shneiderov filming in the cave.

Shneiderov during filming in China.

Posters of Shneiderov's films.

One of the halls of the Museum of Tsentrnauchfilm.

Prizes and diplomas for the best geographical films.

The Lomonosov Prize medal, which Shneiderov was awarded.

Newsreel from 1969: Shneiderov is awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. Shneiderov talks with members of the 1928 expedition and with Academician Shcherbakov.

Photographs of Shneiderov during his work on the program "Cinema Travel Club".

Papanin I.D. gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from the 1950s: Shneiderov discusses the creation of his next film, Shneiderov's face.

Photos of Shneiderov on film sets.

A film about the life and work of the Soviet film director, traveler, founder of the television travel film club, People's Artist of the RSFSR V.A. Shneiderov.

The film includes newsreel footage: the first flight to Japan through Siberia, Mongolia, China in 1925, the ascent of the Pamirs, the icebreaker "Sibiryakov", etc.