Call number: V-1

EARLY RUSSIAN CINEMA, TAPE 1, BEGINNINGS
Zavod rybnykh konservov v Astrakhani [Fish Factory in Astrakhan´]
Pathé Brothers, 1908
Unknown photographer
6 minutes

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ROMASHKOV, Vladimir
Sten´ka Razin (aka Ponizovaia vol´nitsa)
Drankov, 1908; released 15.10.1908
Script Vasilii Goncharov
Adapted from the song From the Island to the Deep Stream
Photography Aleksandr Drankov, Nikolai Kozlovskii
Music Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Razin			Evgenii Petrov-Kraevskii

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MAITRE, André and HANSEN, Kai
Kniazhna Tarakanova [Princess Tarakanova]
Pathé and Film d'Art SAPF, 1910; released 9.11.1910
Script Czeslaw Sabinski
Screen version of the play by Ippolit Shpazhinskii
Photography Georges Meyer and Tapis
Art direction Czeslaw Sabinski and Mikhailov

Princess Tarakanova		V. Mikulina
Catherine II 			N. Aleksandrova
Orlov				Nikolai Vekov
Prince Potemkin			Nikolai Vasil´ev
Prince Golitsyn			S. Lazarev
Admiral Greig			F. Semkovskii
Count Aleksei Tolstoi		M. Rzhanov
Francesca de Menade, Tarakanova's companion
				O. Nel´skaia

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HANSEN, Kai
Roman s kontrabasom [Romance with Double Bass]
Pathé Frères, Moscow, 1911; released 24.9.1911
Script and art direction Czeslaw Sabinski
From the story by Anton Chekhov
Photography George Meyer

Princess Bibulova		V. Gorskaia