An exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the famous film studio “Daltelefilm” opened in Artetazh (PHOTO)

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The exhibition “Time Saved” was held in the small halls of the Artetazh Center for Contemporary Art. This is a joint project of the Museum-Reserve of the History of the Far East named after. VC. Arsenyev and the State TV and Radio Company “Vladivostok”, which became the legal successor of the famous film studio. The exhibition will run until December 17, and as part of the “Night of Arts” you can listen to the author’s tour of the exhibition curator. The Daltelefilm studio was founded in 1968 and was the only one from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk. 10 years earlier, the film crew of the Vladivostok television studio first published a report on the parade of ships and working demonstrations. In subsequent years, documentaries were released from time to time, which were also awarded all-Union awards. But the real history of the studio began on January 1, 1968, when the film group, until that time called the Main Editorial Office for the Production of Film Programs, was transformed into Daltelefilm. The first editor-in-chief of the studio was Pavel Schwartz. A sailboat under full sail against the background of a sunrise in the Pacific Ocean – this was the screensaver of the Daltelefilm studio. It existed for less than 30 years, but managed to leave a significant mark on the history of the city and the entire Far East. The Daltelefilm studio produced an average of 4 hours and 50 minutes of films per year – 12-14 films on wide 35mm film. Each director made two and sometimes three films a year, and the topics were distributed as follows: one film is required, one is optional. A total of 393 films were made over the years of its existence. But only 50 were saved. “I want to say that the idea of ​​holding this exhibition has been in the air for a long time,” says the head of the press service of the Arsenyev Museum, journalist and publicist Andrei Ostrovsky. . . – We needed a reason, and we, in general, came up with it ourselves – 55 years since the founding of the Daltelefilm studio. This date is completely arbitrary, since even before the publication of the order of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the first television films had already been made and received awards, so the story is larger and deeper than the official date. We have something to talk about and something to tell. The exhibition is called “Time Saved”. In the Greek newspaper it is called “ephemeris”, something ephemeral, living for one day. Today’s agencies also live one day at a time: the feed arrives, and the morning message disappears before the evening. The surviving films of Daltelefilm bear the trace of the era and time of a vast territory from Wrangel Island and the Northern Sea Route in the eastern sector to Antarctica, where we went to make films about our whalers.” The external curator of the Exhibition, Elena Sorokina, who worked at Daltelefilm for seven years as an assistant and deputy director, she and the film studio employees who came to the opening ceremony recall with pride and warmth the years of work and creation of short but fascinating films. Far Eastern documentary films became famous not only in their native land, but also abroad. They talked about the nature of the Far East, shocking workers, production and ordinary people. And the ordinary people who created these films were also invisible heroes. They made Antarctic trips, lived at mining enterprises, went to the taiga, stormed mountains and volcanoes… But then the “age of technology” was still far away – tripods were heavier than the operator, cameras were a little lighter. They carried all this on themselves along with a supply of film, which had to be used sparingly. “We went to Tyulenny Island on Sakhalin for two months to film a film about seals, Island in the Ocean,” recalls exhibition curator Elena Sorokina. “And when we returned after this long expedition with a huge amount of material, it turned out that almost the entire film was defective. It was about 10 minutes of material. And from these minutes a film was made, which subsequently won awards at festivals.” Almost everything presented at the exhibition has been preserved in the collections of the Arsenyev Museum. These are photographs, films, working and studio tools, cartoons and, of course, the films themselves. At the exhibition there is even a small cinema where they show surviving films. But the prizes of festivals and all-Union competitions live in the same building on Uborevich Street where they once “Daltelefilm” was located, and now Vladivostok State Television “When we created our virtual museum, everything that was digitized was transferred to the funds of the Arsenyev Museum – for centuries,” says the director of the Vladivostok State Television and Radio Company Evgeny Olenev. – I hope that someday we will organize an exhibition dedicated to Primorsky Television. But today is also a significant event, the anniversary of Daltelefilm, two A’s. During the preparation of the exhibition, we donated some of the exhibits that are stored at the Vladivostok State Television and Radio Broadcasting. And I am especially grateful to Elena Sorokina, the ideological inspirer and curator of the exhibition, who revived it and invited all the patriarchs. These are the people who talk about the history of Daltelefilm. I hope that someone here will learn something new for themselves, and someone will remember their youth and work on projects that made Daltelefilm studio famous. It is noteworthy that some of the equipment was designed independently. Pyotr Yakimov, for example, 30 years before the advent of video cameras, designed and produced a synchronous 16 mm film camera. Even then, in Yakimov’s apparatus, image and sound were recorded on one film. Even in Moscow there was no such equipment. And the first person to photograph a wild leopard in the wild was Daltelefilm photographer Gennady Shalikov. He stretched a steel cable across a mountain river and hung a wheelbarrow on it. The heavy camera rolled across the river in it. The cinematography, sound and screenwriting schools were the best in the country. Among the filmmakers of those years, they joked that in search of a unique angle one could stumble upon the holes of Vasily Reshchuk’s tripod, because he had already used this unique angle. One of the most famous films, perhaps, can be considered Oleg Aleksandrovich Kanishchev’s film “An Hour and a Half Before the Embrace” – about the meeting of the whaling flotilla “Soviet Russia” in Vladivostok. In December 1969, during the first screening of films from the Daltelefilm studio in the Union of Cinematographers of the Soviet Union, film director Oleg Kanishchev was the first among the directors of Far Eastern television to be accepted as a member of the Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. movie. A year later, the film received an award and professional diploma from the USSR Investigative Committee “For Best Director” at the Fourth All-Union Television Film Festival in Minsk. This film continues to be shown in specialized educational institutions throughout the country as an example of parallel editing. Few people know, but the footage of the meeting of the fleets was staged from beginning to end. But filming at sea is the real thing. The first color film was shot in 1973 – “The Secret of the Wonderful World” in three parts. The studio’s last film was “On the Day the War Ended,” dedicated to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1995. A year earlier, the studio officially ceased to exist, and the film was directed by Oleg Kanishchev. the last film using leftover film. Film production in Vladivostok did not survive the 90s, although many specialists remained in television. Most of the films have not survived, but what is available has been digitized and published in the virtual museum of the Vladivostok State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. “This exhibition is valuable because citizens and guests of the city will be able to see what they managed to preserve,” says gallery owner Alexander Gorodny. “The times were different then, they used typewriters and landline phones. Now “digital”, everything is done easily and freely. Therefore, it is especially important to keep records. I would like to see such an exhibition for the centennial anniversary of Daltelefilm and not only, with a large number of exhibits and in large areas.” A separate room behind a curtain in a red light, with headphones hanging on the wall and the word “The End” in small letters on the wall is a kind of tombstone for the studio. Its employees still remember with bitterness how production was closed, how the film was widely transferred to VHS tapes, and after a while these tapes crumbled into dust. The famous Oleg Kanishchev, for example, kept his films at home under his bed. Now the Arsenyev Museum wants to ask the director’s relatives to donate what is left to the funds. “Once in a cafe I received a fortune cookie, which said that an ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of memory,” says Elena Sorokina. – It seems to me that time can only be preserved through memories, and that is what we are trying to do with this exhibition. Of course, I would like to make the exhibition richer – to have an editing table, a cone camera, a lot of film. It was a crazy production, absolutely handmade, and there was so much soul in every film! Daltelefilm was a legendary enterprise not only because of what it produced, but also because it was a monument to our friendship. I only worked there for seven years, as a director and assistant director. Now I’m surprised to see my last name in the credits. I hope this exhibition will spark memories for those who actually worked there and created everything. This was done with the utmost professionalism and love. Today we can say that documentary cinema has received a new life. I would really like this to happen in the Primorsky Territory.” You can visit the exhibition and listen to the author’s tour by Elena Sorokina on Saturday, November 4, as part of the “Night of Arts”. The exhibition will be on view until December 17.