Special effects of the soviet cinema: a method of finishing drawing

A number of unique documents about the history of the Soviet cinema have been preserved by the collection of the USSR Research Institute for Cinema and Photography at Russian State Archive in Samara. This publication contains a “Technological Note” describing a method of composite shot, namely: finishing drawing. The main idea of this method is that a frame segment is combined with a drawing. The author of the document, which was prepared for the film “Dorisovka” (“Finishing Drawing”), is N.S. Renkov. The first films shot in the USSR with the use of this method were Kadzheti (ქაჯეთი, 1937) and Ruslan and Lyudmila (1938).