Cinema tells about itself (1979)

Advertisement for the exhibition "60 Years of Soviet Cinema" at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh).

View of the area in front of the Montreal Pavilion, where the exhibition opened.

Stills from Soviet films on the exhibition stands.

Still from the feature film "Quiet Flows the Don".

Stills from the feature films "The Young Guard", "The Seven Brave", "War and Peace".

View of the pavilion and area during the grand opening of the exhibition.

Chairman of the USSR Goskino F. T. Yermash speaks (synchronously).

Text of the decree on the nationalization of the film and photo industry in Russia.

Yermash continues his speech (synchronously).

Poster for the film "Chapayev".

Yermash speaks at the opening of the exhibition (synchronously).

Exhibition stands with footage from Soviet newsreels, portrait of Yuri Gagarin.

Stills from Soviet feature films: "October", "Lenin in October", demonstration, storming of the Winter Palace.

Visitors to the exhibition watch fragments from films.

Faces of women.

Visitors watch a film.

Demonstration of dolls from cartoons.

Exhibits of the exhibition.

A visitor tries on a wig in the make-up artist's chair, others wait their turn.

People's faces.

The face of a woman in a wig.

Demonstration of the filming of an episode of a film.

An actress on an improvised set.

An interior view of part of the pavilion.

A sound engineer at the control panel.

Panorama of part of the outdoor area of the exhibition.

Artists perform for visitors to the exhibition.

Faces of visitors and film actors.

A Caucasian dance ensemble performs.

A sign of the Odessa Film Studio.

Visitors to the exhibition look at the stands of film studios of the union republics.

Costumes for filming.

Stills and scenery from films about the Great Patriotic War.

Carmen R.L.'s movie camera on the exhibition stand.

Documents, equipment and weapons of front-line cameramen.

Faces of children looking at the exhibits.

Photographs taken from newsreels of the Great Patriotic War.

Decoration of the partisan camp of the Belarusfilm studio, people leaving the dugout.

Golden Oscar and other prizes of foreign film festivals won by Soviet films.

Views of the exposition of the Gorky Central Studio of Children's and Youth Films.

Characters of the Soyuzmultfilm studio: the Wolf and the Hare, Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka.

Children's faces.

Stills from cartoons.

Views of the open area of the film town of the exhibition.

A space suit in the exposition of the exhibition.

Actor Vitsin G.M. gives autographs to visitors of the exhibition.

The face of a girl taking an autograph.

Performance of a Moldovan dance ensemble.

People going to the exhibition.