The Great Kino. Catalog of preserved feature films of Russia. 1908-1919

The reference edition describes three hundreds of excessive gaming films of Russian production (1908-1919), entirely or in fragments of the world preserved to date in various films of the world (Russian state films, Russian State Archive of Film Documents, Library of the US Congress, Swedish Cinema Institute, British Film Institute, French Sinemtec and Dr) built by chronological and alphabetical principle The catalog introduces a wide reservoir of printed and archival materials into a scientific circulation (filmmobiles, synopsis of paintings, responses and press reviews, as well as memoir testimonials of participants in the shooting and viewers), folding the mosaic picture of Russian cinematography of the first decades of XX century and its recipe with contemporaries. In addition, the book contains extensive illustrative and iconographic material, pointers and biographical articles dedicated to the largest figures of Russian cinema of the specified period