At the origins of Soviet cinema (1979)

Newsreel 1917-1923: Petrograd.

Soldiers in front of Smolny.

Soldiers guard the entrance to Smolny – Wed, kr.

Cadets in front of the Winter Palace – general.

Street, trams passing, children throwing snowballs – general, Wed.

Armored car with the inscription "Lieutenant Schmidt" - kr.

Soldiers and sailors – Wed.

Armored cars driving along the Neva embankment – Wed.

Windows of the Winter Palace, the building after the assault – Wed, kr.

People on Palace Square – Wed.

Destroyed Winter Palace – Wed, kr.

Gatchina.

Revolutionary sailors passing – Wed.

Soldiers and sailors talking – Wed.

First People's Commissar for Naval Affairs Dybenko – Wed, kr.

Pilot Lokaychuk putting on his helmet – cf.

Soldiers rolling out a cannon, eating from a mess tin – cf.

Revolutionary sailors passing by, loading shells – general, cf.

Moscow after the October battles: destroyed buildings – general, cf.

The Kremlin, the Chudov Monastery, a panorama of the building – general, cri.

Spasskaya Tower – cri.

People on Red Square, people carrying coffins, a mass grave near the Kremlin wall – general, cri., cri.

People with banners – cf.

Petrograd: a demonstration in defense of peace – general.

Dvinsk.

Commissar Sobakin – cri.

Soldiers emerging from the trenches, fraternization of Russian and German soldiers, exchanging hats.

Among the soldiers is the poet Mikhail Koltsov – various.

Photo: M. Koltsov – cri.

Newsreel from 1917-1923: Soldiers on the street, near train cars, near a truck.

Women sitting with bundles, a queue, people on the streets, unloading train cars – general.

Trams and carts with furniture pass by – wed.

Members of the government apparatus on the territory of the Kremlin: Ya.

Sverdlov sitting in a car – wed; Bonch-Bruevich; A. Kollontai – short; A. Kollontai standing next to a sailor – wed.

People on the street – wed, short.

Panorama of the building – general.

A tram pulling up to a stop – general.

Lunacharsky and Mayakovsky exit the film committee building – wed.

A cabby passes in front of the film committee building – wed.

Moscow, Gnezdnikovsky Lane.

Photo: A. V. Lunacharsky sitting in a cab – wed.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: Film committee workers sitting – cf.

Portrait of leading Soviet cameramen – cf.

Cameraman P. Novitsky; cameramen filming; cameraman A. Levitsky's ID; cameraman E. Tisse with a movie camera – cf., kr.

Cameraman P. Ermolov; cameraman A. Lemberg with a movie camera – cf., kr.

People with rifles learning to shoot – cf., PNR.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: A man developing film in a film lab – Wed, kr.

The first issue of "Kinonedelya" No. 1 - May 20, 1918. People riding in a truck – Wed.

Moscow.

City streets – Wed. V. I. Lenin on Khodynka Field – Wed. V. I. Lenin talking to Bonch-Bruyevich on the territory of the Kremlin – Wed, kr.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Congress delegates walking, cars driving by – Wed.

Delegates near the Bolshoi Theater.

Delegates in the hall – general.

Delegates of the VIII Party Congress in the hall – Wed.

Congress delegate on the tribune – general.

Congress delegates – Wed.

Soldiers standing at the entrance – general.

Soldiers boarding the carriage.

The train moving off.

A military echelon passing.

Soldiers riding – Wed.

Cavalry entering a village – general.

Soldiers passing by – cf.

Troops in Odessa – general.

The city of Kazan (from a steamship) – general.

Camera operator E. Tisse.

Troops entering Kazan.

Bazaar.

A man getting his hair cut and shaving.

Women preparing food.

A woman taking a photo – general, cf.

Soldiers passing by on horseback – general.

Moscow.

Construction of Kazan Station – cf.

Broken monument – kr.

Monuments to Radishchev, Robespierre, Shevchenko, Nikitin – general, cf. F. I. Shalyapin walking – cf.

Audience – general.

Shalyapin speaking – cf., kr.

Movie wagon – cf., kr.

People passing by the movie wagon – cf.

Dziga Vertov by the movie wagon – general, cf.

Photo: Dziga Vertov.

Newsreel 1918-1923: The propaganda train "October Revolution".

People with placards. M. I. Kalinin – Wed, kr.

People listening – general.

Children walking – general.

Children walking into a movie car – Wed.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Photo: Children watching a movie in a movie car – Wed.

The propaganda ship "Red Star" on the Kama.

People on the bank.

A rally – general, Wed, kr. N. K. Krupskaya – Wed. N. K. Krupskaya speaking.

Cameraman P. Ermolov.

Bundles of books being loaded from the ship onto carts and taken to villages – general, Wed.

Moscow.

Opening of the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets: a banner on the Bolshoi Theater – Wed.

Soldiers near the Bolshoi Theater – Wed.

Cavalrymen near the theater – Wed.

People at the theatre – general, cf.

Ya. M. Sverdlov – cf.

Documents on the issuance of security mandates to operators of the film department of the People's Commissariat of Education – general, cf.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: Yaroslavl: destroyed houses, streets – general, wed.

Cannons, sentry, bridge over river, soldiers boarding carriage, train moving (winter) – general, wed.

Moscow (winter) – general, wed.

Cavalry, soldiers moving, destroyed bridge, restoration work on bridge, bagmen moving, children standing, digging out locomotive – general, wed.

Feeding hungry children – general, panorama.

Railway platform (from train) – wed.

Telegraph operator – wed, cr.

Photo: cameramen Lev Kuleshov, Alexander Lemberg – cr.

Tver.

Children studying in children's art workshops – general, cr.

Soldiers standing – general, wed.

Train moving.

People sitting on roofs of carriages – general, wed.

Demonstration taking place – wed. (with movement).

The Kremlin. V. I. Lenin's office. V. I. Lenin's desk – general, cf.

Decree of the Council of People's Commissars on the nationalization of the cinematographic business – cf.

Photo: cameramen during filming – cf.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Cameramen on the roof – general.

Cameraman E. Tisse – cf.

A train is moving – cf.

Baku.

Funeral of 26 Baku commissars.

A woman is crying at the coffin – general, cf.

The army is entering the village.

Troops are entering the city – general, cf., cr.

Inscription - names of the first operators: N. Alekseev, I. Berezkin, L. Verigo-Darovsky, A. Winkler, G. Giber, N. Grigor, I. Dored, A. Dorn, L. Drankov, I. Ermolov, Yu.

Zhelyabuzhsky, S. Zabazlaev, I. Kobozev, N. Kozlovsky, K. Kuznetsov, A. Levitsky, A. Lemberg, G. Lemberg, V. Lemke, E. Mikhalevich, E. Modzelevsky, M. Naletny, P. Novitsky, D. Sakhnenko, Ya.

Skarbek-Malchevsky, E. Slavinsky, E. Tisse, N. Toporkov, I. Frolov.