Extending the life of film copies (1984)

Entrance to the Warsaw Cinema.

People looking at posters.

A girl's face.

Posters for the feature films Chapayev, Lenin in October, and The Communist.

A fragment of the feature film Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, spectators in the auditorium.

A break in the film strip in the projector, a projectionist fixing the problem.

A map of the USSR with points indicating film distribution organizations.

Boxes of film on a conveyor belt in a film storage facility.

A custodian places film documents on the shelves of the storage facility.

The process of automatic transportation of film documents.

Sending film copies by car.

View of a part of Khreshchatyk (from above).

A van with film copies on the streets of Kyiv.

Diagram of the internal structure of film (animation).

Deformation and destruction of film due to violation of storage conditions (animation).

A custodian checks the temperature and humidity levels in the film storage facility.

Thermometer scale.

The custodian notes the daily temperature and humidity readings.

Film boxes on racks, open space under and between racks.

Rack located one meter from the heating device.

Film archive employees at clear tables working with film prints.

Rolling the film into a roll and gluing the outer end before transportation, placing the film in a box.

Replacing a dirty and rusty box.

Placing a humidifying element in the box.

Installing film prints in a filmostat for humidification before sending to the cinema network.

Placing film prints in a special film container for transportation.

Boxes for 70 mm film prints on a conveyor belt.

A vehicle for transporting film prints drives along a winter road.

Reception of film prints by the sorting department of the House of Culture.

Closed film carriers on the floor in a warm room.

Wetting the filmostat shelves with a special humidifying liquid.

The projectionist prepares the projection equipment for the session.

Conducting a daily technical inspection of the projection equipment TO-1. Checking the tape drive mechanism.

Checking the film channel.

Destruction of the emulsion layer due to contamination of the film channel (animation).

Cleaning the film channel from dust and dirt after the end of the film session.

Cleaning the film projector's toothed drums and pressure rollers from dirt.

A cleaned toothed drum under a magnifying glass.

Loading film into the tape transport mechanism.

Causes of film perforation wear (animation).

A shortened film loop in a loaded film projector, increasing the loop.

Checking the serviceability of the tape transport using 100% serviceable film every hundred hours of the film projector's operation.

Checking the perforation for damage after two hundred revolutions of the film ring.

Perforation in the eyepiece of the device for checking it, chips and notches in the perforation.

A working tape transport mechanism with excessive film tightening. "Rain effect" on the image during a film showing.

Removing a 600-meter roll of film from the film counter, loading it into a film projector at one of the rental points.

Rewinding the film on a specially adjusted electric rewinder.

Installing a roll of film in the BU-600 non-rewinding device in one of the movie theaters in Lipetsk.

Loading film into the projector.

Removing the film roll from the projector after the end of the session.

Operation of the units and assemblies of the 35-KSA movie projector with a capacity of 1800 meters.

Projectionist during a film showing.

The projectionist rewinds the film to the beginning on the first projector.

Movie projector MEO-5X during a session at the Cheryomushki movie theater.

Rewinding film on cassettes located in the same plane.

Entrance to the repair and production plant in the Tula region.

Craftsmen carry out preventive maintenance and repair of film projection equipment.

A vehicle of the control and adjustment laboratory leaves the gates of the plant.

The laboratory vehicle arrives at the House of Culture in a rural area.

The process of checking and adjusting the radial runout of toothed drums.

Clarification of gaps between the working belts of the toothed drums and the holding rollers.

Checking the accuracy of the tape drive mechanism parts placement.

Checking and adjusting the amount of film strip pulling from the film channel.

Checking the film strip tension by the braking device of the 23-KPK projector.

Checking the winder tension.

View of the movie theater building in one of the district centers of the Tula region.

Checking film copies at one of the district film inspection points.

Repairing a film projector at one of the maintenance points.

Meeting of the Technical Council of the Tula Regional Filmification Department.

A van with film copies leaves the gates of the Shchekino film distribution department.

Employees of one of the film distribution offices check film copies on light tables.

Replacing a damaged leader using a special press for splicing film.

Rewinding the film.

Correcting a damaged splice.

Damaged perforation of the film.

The process of repairing damaged perforation.

Cleaning the film with a soft cloth moistened with alcohol.

Panorama of the workshop for preventive treatment of film copies after every 90 sessions, employees at light tables.

Typical damage and abrasions on the surface of the film subject to restoration.

Equipment for restoration and preventive treatment of film copies in a special area, the process of film restoration.

Cleaning film copies on ultrasonic units UFM-1 and UFC before restoration.

Loading a film copy into an unit with a solution of perchlorethylene for washing.

The film cleaning process.

Cleaning liquid before and after film cleaning.

View of the 45-P8 restoration machine.

Wet cleaning of the film base.

Removing moisture from the film surface using dry application discs.

The process of cleaning the emulsion layer from contaminants, polishing the emulsion layer.

The film drying process.

The process of glossing the film base on a glass disc moistened with a special solution.

View of the base and emulsion layer of restored film.

Rewinding the restored film copy.

Using an ultrasonic unit to apply a layer of silicone oil to the restored film copy to protect the film surface from mechanical damage (siliconizing).

Antistatic treatment of film in a special unit.

Spectators at the entrance to the cinema.

Poster for the feature film "Ballad of a Soldier".

Entrance to the Varshavskaya cinema in Moscow.