Stage Speech. Film 1 (1988)

Students of the theatre school during the lesson, pronounce sounds, covering their faces with their hands.

People on the streets of Moscow.

Entrance and sign of the Studio School at the Gorky Art Academic Theatre.

Admission exam at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Studio School, applicants read poems and fables, faces of applicants.

Professor A.N. Petrova listens to poems read by applicants, Petrova’s reasoning about the need to develop speech in a person from childhood is heard off-screen (synchronously).

Applicants read poems.

Professor of the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School Oleg Efremov speaks about the need to pay close attention to young people applying to them, about further work with them (synchronously).

Girls and boys read monologues and poems, answer questions from teachers during the competitive selection.

Fragment from the Moscow Art Theatre performances with the participation of M.M. Tarkhanov.

Students during a stage speech lesson perform an exercise, divided into groups, Petrova observes students in one of the groups.

Students during another lesson, conducted by V.P. Gorenkova.

Faces of students performing an exercise.

Students perform an exercise with vibration massage, pronouncing a monotonous sound.

Faces of students performing exercises.

Students open their mouths, stretch their lips, and pronounce letters, looking into pocket mirrors during another exercise.

The face of V.P. Gorenkova.

Students of the V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio perform muscle stretching exercises during a stage movement class led by A.N. Petrova.

Teachers help students perform the exercises correctly.

Students perform rhythmic dance jumps, practice exhaling.

Students lie down on the floor and perform an exercise to relax the body, begin to rise on an exhalation.

Faces of students performing an open-mouth breathing exercise, among the students is Andrey Panin.

Students pronounce a sound while lying on their stomachs.

Students stand up, continuing to pronounce a sound, Petrova leads the class.

Faces of students performing an exercise with elements of vibration facial massage, constantly pronouncing a sound.

Petrova explains to students the goals and objectives of stage speech classes, the importance of correct pronunciation and articulation (synchronously), students listen to Petrova.

Articulation gymnastics class, students' faces during exercises.

Students depict sounds with their hands, among them is Yulia Menshova.

Petrova shows students how to pronounce sounds correctly, among the students is Andrey Panin.

Students perform another articulation exercise, Petrova sets the tempo of sounds and movements.

Students pronounce vowel sounds, Menshova's face.

Students read a poem during the exercise, stretching the vowel sounds.

Students perform another exercise on movement and articulation under the guidance of Petrova.

Students pronounce hard and soft sounds in turn.

Students pronounce voiced and voiceless sounds.

Petrova gives an individual task to Yu.

Menshova.

Menshova reads a tongue twister.

Students read tongue twisters. S.V. Vladimirova conducts a lesson on speech articulation, students pronounce sounds, holding tubes of lipstick in their teeth.

Performing an exercise on pronouncing hissing and whistling sounds.

Students pronounce proverbs in turn, students' faces.

Students pronounce tongue twisters in Petrova's lesson.

Performing an exercise on combining stage movement and articulation, Petrova leads the lesson.

Petrova explains to the students their mistakes.

One of the students sits down at the piano, selects the musical rhythm of the given phrase, the students try to hit the rhythm, among them is Yu.

Panorama and view of part of the building of the Moscow Art Theatre School.