Russkii Arkhiv

13-50

Authors: Irina N. Graschenkova, Irina N. Graschenkova, Irina G. Nikitina

Conference meeting in the Round table format on a theme “Newsreel Footage as Visible Memory of the Epoch” was organized by the Moscow Documentary Club Named after Gemma and Vladislav Mikosha “Window to Russia. Link of Times” at the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and was held in the Moscow House of Cinema. During the meeting there was an extensive discussion of the various problems of modern documentary filmmaking: creative and production issues, shooting of newsreel to create the film documents as a form of visible history, the screening of the film on television, replenishment of the film archives, storage of film as the most practical information carrier of historical data and as an original document. Documentary filmmakers, archivists, historians, pedagogues, scientific employees of archives and museums, representatives of mass media and public organizations attended this conference.

57-64

Authors: Galina E. Malysheva

The article is devoted to the study of film documents of the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive restoring the initial cut and its descriptions, editing assembling sheets, creating a system of film catalogues. Several case studies illustrate the falsification of the historic chronicles in the early 20th century and contemporary cinema and TV production.

73-81

Authors: Alevtina A. Paramonova

The author presents the results of how newsreel and aerial photographs as valuable historical documents were jointly used for creating the map “Borodino Battlefield During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”. Particular attention is paid to the use of the frames of the German newsreel for the detection and identification of anti-tank earthen barriers and military fortifications of the Mozhaisk defensive line at Borodino battlefield.

96-100

Authors: Lyudmila P. Korshik

The paper presents the memoirs of the documentary director about her work in the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in the turbulent times of Perestroika, the collapse of the USSR, and destruction of the Soviet cinema traditions. The story of the filmmakers’ desire to reflect the truth about the changes in the social and political life of the country and the causes of social and national conflicts in their creative work is shown.