Museum of the Cinema (Odessa, Ukraine)

Pavilion of Odessa museum of the cinema

The museum of cinema - a section of NUCU (National Union of Cinematography) is located on the Odessa film studio, in an historic mansion. Before the revolution, it belonged to Demidovoy – San-Donato.

With more than 10,000 works on display, the museum is a testimony to the history and cinematic activity in Odessa. Here you can find historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant garde.

A popular attraction, measuring 28 square meters, in one room – explores the invention of the cinema (two years prior to the Brothers Lumière!).

Soviet directors of photography

These films, by Joseph Timchenko, were produced for a survey and demonstration of FMV, and are the first in the Odessa film studios of «Mirograf», «Mizrakh», Borisova, Kharitonova and others. The Odessa film studio produced feature films until 1941, when the Soviet Union entered the second world war.

The shelves are filled to the ceiling with rarities and artifacts.

The Museum offers individual consultation passes for students. In recent years, students have written abstracts on the history of the cinema and the development of culture in the town of Odessa.

The monument to the workers of Odessa film studio

They have researched and published an annotated, illustrated catalogue of the films of Odessa (from 1917 for 2004). A reference book is in preparation about all producers, works and workings on a studio. The Museum monographs are published from Kira Muratova, Vladimir Vysockiy, Vasiliy Reshetnikov, Ljudmila Popova.

The Museum is a favorite among historians and anyone interested the history of cinema. Our guest book includes entries from England, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, USA, Japan, Hungary, Canada and France.

The museum co-operates with the TV channels «Culture» of Kiev and Moscow and with all large broadcasting companies of Odessa. Many their programs are produced with materials of the Museum of the Cinema.

Work at the Museum is often highlighted up by the Odessa newspapers.

Head of Museum of the cinema, professor of culture - Kostromenko Vadim

Current Archive and Cataloguing Efforts

Vadim Kostomarenko - Head of Museum of the cinema, professor of culture

The Museum of the Cinema is continuously studying and cataloguing new material. Its archives include:

• Rare literature: books, newspapers, magazines about the cinema from 1900
• Personal paraphernalia of the first heads of the Odessa studio - Michael Kapchinsky, Lazarus Polyak, Gennady Zbandut, producers of the studio of Alexander Dovzhenko, Ivan Kavaleridze, George Tasin, Kira Muratova, Michael Kac, Radomir Vasilevsky.
• Personal paraphernalia of the actors of Amvrosiya Buchma - Vera Kholodnaya, Vladimir Vysocky, Yaroslav Lupiya, Vilen Novak, Vadim Kostromenko and others.
• Cinematographic equipment: unique apparatus which A.Dovzhenko worked on
• survey and sound-recording devices, lighting, assembling adaptations, film projectors and other.
• Dossiers on every rental and television film, taken off the studios from 1954, consisting of literary, producer scenarios, assembly records of films, complete sets of publicity pictures, and press reviews.
• Sketches of sceneries and suits on all films from post-war years.
• Raising projects to the films (147 albums).
• Castings (96 albums).
• Card index of actors, recorded on the Odessa film studio.
• Photos of all who worked and are still working on the studio - producers, operators, sound engineers, artists etc.
• Audio of the most interesting events (a film festival «Golden Dyuk» etc.).
• Video films and videotape recordings of flashbacks, movies of the studio on 16-mm tape and video transmitters.
• Memoirs of studio workers - published and unpublished.
• A musical library with autographs of the composers, writing for a studio.
• Placards to the films of the Odessa film studio.
• Prizes and rewards to the studio films.
• Collection of marks, envelopes, devoted cinemas.
• Informative-methodical materials on different historical epochs: suits are both civil and military - signs of distinction of different armies, transport, cars, notes, models etc.

References

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Links

• Official website of the museum (Russian)
• Original source - Concentric Media