All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (1946-1965)

The door opens, students and teachers enter, faces of those entering.

Students enter the room for practical classes, take places at the editing tables.

Filming of an episode of the film.

People pass by a make-up artist, look at his work.

Hands holding film.

Applications of out-of-town applicants for admission.

People enter the VGIK building.

Entrance to the VGIK building with a sign.

Director and cameraman during the filming of a take.

The face of a young actress.

General view of the institute building.

Movie cameras on tripods are located in the room.

Screening room of the institute.

Students approach the entrance doors.

Students enter the hall.

People hand in their clothes to the cloakroom.

Lab assistants carry boxes of film.

Reproductions of paintings in a student's hands.

Boxes of film.

Students talk to each other before the start of classes.

A girl combs her hair in front of a mirror.

Students disperse to their classrooms.

Students go up the stairs.

Students in the corridor of the institute.

Students get up from their chairs and go to a lecture.

The corridor of the institute.

Students in the classroom during a class.

Classes in the Marxism-Leninism room.

Class at the screenwriting department.

Professor Lebedev gives a lecture on the history of Soviet cinema.

Professor L. V. Kuleshov conducts a class on the basics of film directing.

A student of the cameraman department sets up the lighting.

Class at the cameraman department.

Students in an acting class.

The students' faces.

The students act out a scene with a photographer.

The teachers watch the scene being performed.

The faces of the student actors and the spectators.

A female student in a 19th century dress walks along the corridor.

Students study in the dormitory.

Students discuss the teacher's assignment.

A student draws a sketch of the scenery.

A student types a script in the dormitory.

Hands on the keyboard of the typewriter.

Students sit in the corridor during an exam and wait for their turn.

A student approaches the examination board's table and sits down.

Head of the Directing Department Eisenstein S.M. offers the student material, Kuleshov is sitting next to Eisenstein.

The student quickly looks through the material.

The student answers the questions.

Students in the corridor waiting to be called to the exam.

The next student sits down at the table in front of the commission.

The faces of the students.

The hand of the teacher filling out the examination form.

Empty corridors of the institute, the bell rings.

People hand in their clothes to the cloakroom.

Students go to class.

Students at a choreography class.

Students dance ballroom dances.

A practical lesson in acting.

Entrance to the building of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

Film director Chukhrai G. N. at work.

Film director Rostotsky S. I. helps an actress try on a headdress.

Segel Ya. A. watches the exposed film.

Kulidzhanov L. A. looks at the illustrations for the film.

Film directors Alov A. A. and Naumov V. N. on the set.

Film director Ryazanov E. A. Danelia G. N. and Talankin I. V. at work.

Directors Khutsiev M. M. and Lioznova T. M. View of a part of the set.

The cameraman sets the lighting.

Episodes from the filming of feature films.

The sign of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography.

Kuleshov L. A. teaches a lesson on the art of editing.

Students enter the VGIK building.

Students of the acting department act out a scene.

Kuleshov's face.

Director Romm M. I. and operator Volchek B.I. during the shooting of a take.

Romm explains the scene to the actors.

Actors during the shooting of a take.