Central Studio of Documentary Films - 25 years (1957)

Newsreel from the 1920s: Radio amateurs in a village, setting up equipment (filming by Dziga Vertov).

Newsreel from the 1950s: Grigory Giber at a film projector.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Maxim Gorky with his family and newsreel cameramen.

Newsreel from the 1920s: Mikhail Kalinin with documentary filmmakers at a film projector.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Cameraman Sergei Semenov with a movie camera.

Cameraman Vladimir Frolenko with a movie camera.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Seeing off cameramen to the front.

Cameramen Aleksandr Shchekutyev and Leonid Varlamov in military uniform.

Viktor Dobronitsky in military uniform and flight helmet setting up a movie camera.

Inserts the camera into the nozzle of the plane.

Dobronitsky in the plane with a movie camera.

The pilot in the cockpit.

Camera operator Afiliya Reidman walks through deep snow.

Camera operator Maria Sukhova films partisans with a movie camera.

Camera operator Yuri Monglovsky with a movie camera and a rifle in his hands.

Camera operators Boris Nebylitsky and Abram Khavchin are filming.

Leonid Kotlyarenko in Central Asia in a field harvesting grain.

Camera operator Galina Monglovskaya films sports competitions.

Mikhail Ashurkov films a tennis match.

Mikhail Plider films the streets of Moscow.

Vladislav Mikosha films the city from above, from the skeleton of a building under construction.

Documentarians in a cable car.

Camera operator Evgeny Kitsyuk in the Arctic.

Camera operator Solomon Kogan crosses the equator (a humorous initiation rite on a ship).

Camera operator Alevtina Grek runs along the platform with a movie camera.

The platform is filled with people.

A train departs for the virgin lands, those leaving wave their hands from the carriages.

Vyacheslav Polyakov and Vladislav Troshkin run after the train, jump into the carriage.

Cameraman Sergei Gusev films on the shores of Antarctica.

A waterfall in Argentina.

Igor Bessarabov and Daniil Kaspiy filming in Argentina.

A couple in love on the Seine embankment.

Pavel Rusanov filming on a Parisian street.

Ruvim Glushakov filming in Pakistan.

Palm trees.

Film equipment on a trolley at an airport in India.

Evgeny Mukhin at a railway station in India.

Evgeny Mukhin and Malik Kayumov with locals in India.

Locals on elephants, filmed by cameramen.

Newsreel from 1945: A German city, residents talking to Soviet cameramen.

Destroyed Berlin.

Cameraman Nikolay Vikherev with a camera on the streets of Berlin.

Presentation of medals for military merit to Anatoly Krylov and Efim Lozovsky.

Presentation of creative awards to Grigory Giber, Vladimir Boykov, Vladimir Frolenko, Sergey Semenov, Ivan Belyakov, Pavel Kasatkin, Irina Serbskaya, Elizaveta Svilova-Vertova, Viktor Kotov, Grigory Shevyakov, Lyubov Pertsova, Klavdiya Kulagina, Leonid Khmara, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, Boris Zemtsovsky, Ekaterina Kopylova, Sergey Semenov.

A comic film for the CSDF anniversary: Newsreel from the 1930s: The Studio building in Likhov Lane.

Photos of the studio employees on the stand - panorama.

Intros of the CSDF newsreels.

The lobby of the CSDF building in Likhov - studio employees, buffet.

Employees in the studio corridors.

Queue to the editing room.

Work in the editing room.

Signing documents.

Employees entering the studio building.

Cloakroom.

Working at the editing table.

Film boxes.

Fragment of the "Pioneer" newsreel.

Newsreel from the 1920s.

Dziga Vertov's performance.

Vladimir Golovnya films in a snowy field in winter.

A Yak-3 airplane.

Men playing cards.

Children sitting on potties.

A hand cutting out a newspaper article.

Asian riders with hunting falcons.

A falcon attacks a fox in the steppe.

The Central Documentary Film Studio screening room, employees.

Working with film: close-ups of women's hands.

A banquet, employees at the table, toasts.

Yves Montand singing.