Soviet Cinema Online. Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-1935

Brief report (by the directorate) of Sovkino united studios on the status at the studios as of December 1, 1926; overview of the work of the studios' 1st pavilion.

Certificate about the joint stock company Sovkino. Typed.

Closing balance for the Leningrad Oblast office of Sovkino as of October 1, 1929. Typed.

Contract between the Italian-Russian company SACIR and Sevzapkino on providing Italian and American films for showing in the USSR, and correspondence between Sevzapkino and Soiuzkino and the USSR trade office in Italy, the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade and others regarding SACIR's lawsuit against the USSR trade office in Italy over contract disputes. In Russian and Italian. Original, typed copies.

Contract between the USSR government, represented by the VSNKh, and the French photographic and plastics company Prophopla (formerly SIMP) to acquire license and materials on its acceptance from the firm: the consolidated balance sheet of Prophopla, acceptance certificates for materials and property, etc.

Contract between the Voenno-khimicheskiĭ trest of the USSR Vysshiĭ sovet narodnogo khoziaĭstva with the French company Lumière on providing technical assistance in the production of film stock. Attached are specifications of all types of film stock. Corrpespondence between the managing board of Vokhimtrest, Lumière, the VSNKh Glavnyĭ kontsessionnyĭ komitet and others regarding the contract. In Russian and French.

Correspondence between the Fotokhimicheskiĭ Trest and Intorgkino, the USSR trade offices in France and Germany, the Lumière company and other foreign companies on importing chemical raw materials and equipment for the film stock factory, etc.

Correspondence between the Fotokhimicheskiĭ Trest and the Lumière company, the USSR People's Commissariat of Light Industry and Intorgkino on termination of a technical cooperation contract with Lumière, on the purchase abroad of raw materials, sending engineers for training at the Lumière factory, on technical production issues. Attached is a draft contract, an order from the USSR People's Commissariat of Light Industry on confirming the contract, etc. In Russian and French.

Correspondence between the managing board of Soiuzkino and the Fotokhimicheskiĭ Trest with the USSR trade office in France, the Lumière company and others regarding cancellation of technical assistance contracts with the company; reports by Lumière engineers on the Shostka film stock factory. In Russian and French.

Correspondence between the managing board of the Voenno-khimicheskiĭ trest of the USSR Vysshiĭ sovet narodnogo khoziaĭstva and the USSR trade office in France, the French company Lumière, and the director of Shostka factory No. 9 regarding construction of a factory to produce film stock. In Russian and French.

Correspondence between the managing board of the Voenno-khimicheskiĭ trest of the USSR Vysshiĭ sovet narodnogo khoziaĭstva with the USSR trade office in France, the French company Lumière, and the managing board of Sovkino on construction of a factory to produce film stock, shipments of equipment for the factory and transfer of all issues relating to construction of the factory to Sovkino. In Russian and French.

Correspondence between the Sovkino managing board and USSR trade offices in Austria, England, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, France and other countries on organizing distribution of Soviet films, purchasing foreign films, film stock and other materials.

Decree of the USSR Revvoensovet on transferring Gosvoenkino to the management of the Military and Topographic Administration of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; letter from the head of Gosvoenkino to the USSR Revvoensovet on the studio's status; minutes of a meeting at the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate on the issue of liquidating the company Mezhrabpom-fil′m with an attached report on an analysis of the company in 1929; memorandum from an agent of Belgoskino to the RSFSR Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate on Belgoskino's relationship with Sovkino.

Draft of Sovkino's artistic and ideological plan for purchasing, using, distributing and reworking foreign products in 1926/1927.

Estimate of costs for Sovkino's 3rd studio, screenplay and correspondence of Sovkino managing board with the Spartakiada organization committee on shooting the 1928 film Vsesoiuznaia Spartakiada.

Excerpt from Minutes № 39 of a meeting of the Northwest Oblast bureau of the VLKSM Central Committee on releasing "Parizhskiĭ Sapozhnik," a film about the Komsomol (directed by F.M. Ėrmler).

Excerpt from minutes of Sovkino editorial board on the work of S.M. Eisenstein's group on the films Oktiabr′ and General′naia Liniia. Notarized typed transcript.

Excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of the Glavnyĭ kontsessionnyĭ komitet under the USSR Council of People's Commissars on altering the charter of Mezhrabpom-Rus′, notes on the activity of the Uzbekgoskino trust; a letter from the managing board of Sovkino to the VKP(b) Orgbiuro on sending a commission to the U.S. in relation to the construction of a film studio in Moscow.

Explanatory note for the control codes from the Vseukrainskoe fotokinoupravlenie five-year plan (1927/1928 - 1932/1933).

Explanatory note to Sovkino's financial and commercial plan for the 1926/1927 operating year.

General accounting ledger of Gosvoenkino, the state military film studio.

Goskino balance sheet for 1924/1925.

Goskino production and financial plan for 1925/1926 with an explanatory note and a list of films already released and in production at Goskino studios for the period from October 1924 to September 1925.

Gosvoenkino general ledger.

Lawsuit filed by the managing board of Sovkino against the Italian company of industrialists for foreign trade CICE, seeking monetary damages for violation of items in a contract dated July 31, 1925 on the acquisition of commercial licenses to 19 films. Original, typed copies.

Letters from the directorate of the Sovkino film studio to the VKP(b) Central Committee, the crew of the film "Pyshka," Staaken Filmwerke and others about work on a documentary and about the terms of a contract with Staaken to film "Pyshka" and others. Typed copies.

Licenses issued by the Main Repertoire Committee to Sevzapkino, Goskino and Sibgoskino allowing them to show foreign films.

Licenses issued by the Main Repertoire Committee to show foreign films. Cutting scripts included.

List of themes for Sovkino's feature films in the 1927/1928 operating year.

Lists of actors and employees at Goskino's 1st studio, Gosvoenkino and the RSFSR VSNKh photo and film trust.

Lists of employees of Gosvoenkino, the state military film studio, and Sovkino united studios.

Lists of Soviet and foreign films allowed for showing or banned.

Lists of themes for Sovkino's feature films in 1925/1927 and 1927/1928.

Materials for a party meeting on the film industry: an analysis of Sovkino's production plan for 1926/1927.

Materials from an exhibit of ten years of Soviet photography: minutes of meetings of the plenum and presidium of the exhibition committee, the exhibition jury and a commission of experts; jury regulations; lists of exhibit pieces to be transferred to the collection of the Photography museum .

Materials from Proletkino and its Samara office: charter, minutes of managing board meetings and general shareholder meetings; memoranda, information and other documents.

Materials from the 1st Moscow Workers' Film Conference: abstracts of papers by M.K. Nikanorov ("Kul′trabota vokrug kinoteatra") and M. Rafes ("Kakaia kinokartina nuzhna rabochemu zriteliu"); resolutions on the papers. Typed, printed, collotype.

Materials from the export-import department of Sovkino and Intorgkino: correspondence between the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade and the managing board of Sovkino on exporting and importing films and film photographic materials; plans and reports, foreign currency income and expense reports; lists of films sold abroad, etc.

Materials on a purge of VKP(b) cells at Mezhrabpomfil′m, Glavnoe upravlenie kinofotopromyshlennosti, and the Kinomekhprom and Soiuzfil′m trusts: conclusions and proposals from the party purge commission, shorthand records of meetings, reports from VKP(b) cells and party members, lists.

Materials on a purge of VKP(b) cells at the Soiuzfil′m and Soiuztekhfil′m trusts: lists of party members, conclusions from the party purge commission.

Materials on foreign licenses, the activities of foreign companies and their representatives in the USSR relating to the film business and joint productions of films: correspondence, copies of agreements and contracts.

Materials on personnel at Mezhrabpom-fil′m, Gosvoenkino, Sovkino and others; correspondence, performance reviews, information from personnel files, lists.

Materials on Sovkino personnel: correspondence, employee notices, information forms, performance reviews. Leaf no. 6 - "Kino-vory" article; Leaf no. 24 – Arbitration court ruling on L. Nezhdanov's use of the theme of L.V. Gol′denveĭzer's and M.IA. Onė's libretto "Nikolaĭ I i kantonisty" for a screenplay. Typed copies.

Materials on Sovkino personnel; correspondence, employee notices, lists of studio employees with performance reviews.

Materials on Sovkino personnel: lists of employees with performance reviews and correspondence.

Memoranda from editors to the Sovkino managing board on issues of the editorial board's work; certificate of review for films from the company Celtic-cinéma.

Memorandum from the head of the Sovkino editorial board on the board's activities; lists of editorial board and film archive employees.

Minutes of meetings and memoranda sent to the editorial board and managing board of Sovkino, instructions and other accounting documents from Sovkino united studios.

Minutes of meetings, contracts and other materials on socialist competition in the film industry.

Minutes of meetings of the central inventory committee for Sovkino studios, the studios' permanent conference, meetings of the Sovkino 1st studio's directorate and operations and distribution bureau; excerpts from minutes of Sovkino managing board meetings that were sent to the 1st studio accounting department for verification.

Minutes of meetings of the screenplay workshop in the Goskino art department. Lists of workshop members attached.

Minutes of meetings of the Sovkino art council to discuss the list of themes for 1928 - 1929. List and other documents attached.

Minutes of Sovkino editing/cutting staff meetings and editorial conferences, orders issued by the Sovkino managing board.

Minutes of Sovkino managing board meetings.

Monthly information on the work of the Sovkino editorial board. Lists of banned and allowed foreign films.

Production performance reviews for cinematography employees.

Records of agreements between Sovkino and Lumière, minutes of technical meetings, work acceptance certificate, correspondence between Sovkino and the Fotokhimicheskiĭ Trest with Lumière and other documents on the construction, installation of equipment and commissioning of the film stock factory in Shostka. In Russian and French.

Resolutions from joint meetings of the managing board of Sovkino and film studio creative workers on improving film quality.

Rules and instructions for Sovkino employees on captioning and ordering lab work for editors and gluers; librettos for foreign films.

Shorthand record from a meeting of Sovkino communists on the issue of "formalist directions in film."

Shorthand record of discussion of a report by M. Rafes entitled "Sovkino Production Plan for 1928 - 1930." List of attendees attached.

Sovkino editorial board report on its activities in 1925/1926.

Sovkino's financial and commercial plan and estimated receipts and expenses for 1927-1928.

Soviet Cinema Online. Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-1935

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