List of Lost Films of Russia (1908)

List of lost films of Russia (1908) - a list of lost films of Russia filmed in 1908, sorted in alphabetical order. All films are feature films (debatable about the film-ballet Pierrot and Pierretta). In the Vishnevsky catalog, films of 1908 correspond to numbers 5-13.

Content

Legend

Dividing strip Comment; film criticism

List

Title	Meter	Genre	Studio	Producer	Actors	Literary source

" Big man "		drama	studio A. Drankova	Nikolay Arbatov	artists of the Petersburg People's House	play by I. Kolyshko “The Big Man”
The play was performed on the stage of the Sukhorinsky Theater and occupied “the place of a sensational“ bread “play”, since S. Yu. Witte was portrayed as the main character ^[1] .

" The choice of the royal bride "	173 meters	"Household drama"	t / d Khanzhonkova	Vasily Goncharov	Andrei Gromov (tsar), Alexandra Goncharova (bride), Maria Tokarskaya, Pyotr Chardynin, E. Fadeeva, Antonina Pozharskaya	play by L. May "The Maid of Pskov"
The film was released in 1910. Poetic legend about the arrival of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in Pskov with the guardsmen. Having destroyed Novgorod, the tsar moved to free Pskov, the city was waiting for the same fate. But the city was not ruined - Grozny met his illegitimate daughter Olga in Pskov, whose existence he did not even suspect. The city was pardoned, but the courageous Pskov freemen and her leader, Olga's beloved, - Pskov Mikhailo Tucha - were killed. The Choice of the Tsar’s Bride consisted of two episodes: the feuds of the boyars over the candidacy of the tsar’s bride and the viewing of the brides. - A. Khanzhonkov “The First Years of Russian Cinematography” - M., 1937, p. 23

"Walking along the beach"				Vasily Amashukeli		-
The first Georgian feature film.

"Winter"					K. S. Selivanov

"Mozart and Salieri"				Siemak ^[2]		"Little tragedy" by A. S. Pushkin "Mozart and Salieri
According to a certain Siemak, the oldest Ukrainian film enthusiast, they were still in 1908-1909. in Galicia, a staging of Mozart and Salieri was staged. - V. Vishnevsky “A.S. Pushkin and his work on the screen. Historical and Filmographic Review "- M., 1937, pp. 183-184

"Father and son"			t / d Khanzhonkova (?)			-
A staging of a scandalous trial of the murder of a father by his son ^[3] . The film was banned in Moscow, given that the family of the deceased lived in the capital, and the trial of the murderer was still ongoing, but was shown in Tver and other Russian cities ^[3] . According to the rules that exist in Moscow for us, viewing pictures of the cinematographic theater program is carried out by the appropriate police official, most often an assistant to the bailiff in the theater itself. After reviewing the pictures assigned to the session, he gives permission to set them and excludes for one reason or another a picture of inappropriate content. <...> We also point out the following negative aspects of the existing order of viewing paintings. Imagine that some factory has produced an interesting picture, the picture is being viewed, and a veto is imposed on it. If this happened when the painting was bought by all theaters, the owners of the theaters suffer a loss. If only one owner bought the picture - and a veto was imposed on the picture in his theater - the remaining owners refrain from buying it, then the company that released the painting suffers a loss. So it was, for example, with the painting “Father and Son” by Khanzhonkov, when the company paid for the fact that she had 20 copies left. - “Sine-Fono”, 1908, No. 2 Often, screenings of pending scandalous trials that aroused increased interest of ordinary people were not allowed to be shown on the screen. In Moscow, a film about the murder of a father by his son ("Father and Son") was banned, given that the family of the deceased lived in the capital, and the trial of the murderer was still ongoing, but this did not prevent the bailiffs in Tver and other Russian cities from allowing the painting to be shown in local movie theaters. - V. Mikhailov “Tales of the cinema of old Moscow” - M., 2003, p. 245

"Pierrot and Pierretta"	130 meters	ballet movie	t / d Drankova	Alexander Drankov (?)		-
Filming of the performance of the children's ballet of the troupe of I. A. Chistyakov ^[4] . Some historians (eg, Vishnevsky ^[4] ) call the film documentary, while others (eg, Short ^[5] ) call it film.

"Impostor"
The existence of the film is not confirmed by documentary sources.

“A keen musician”	38 meters	comedy	t / d Drankova			-
Rob was so fond of music that he wanted to give his concert, but Bob took his place, and in order to take revenge, Rob brought a fire truck, put a ladder to Bob's back and let him pour water on top of Bob’s hose. But Bob does not stop his concert, he tries to protect himself from an jet of water with an opened umbrella, and when the cold streams of water continue to pour over him, the passionate musician begins to retreat deep into the garden, and the vengeful Rob, sitting on his back, moves with him and mercilessly douses him whole streams of water. So the vengeful Rob took revenge on his rival Bob ^[6] . Drankov <...> decides to try his hand at comedy. On November 1, 1908, he released the first two Russian comedy films: "A Hardworking Batman" <...> and "A Caring Musician" of 38 meters (22 p. 80 kopecks). <...> "Caring for a Musician" is a small sideshow, artistically performed, representing how the musician Rob took revenge on musician Bob. Rob was so fond of music that he wanted to give his concert, but Bob took his place, and in order to take revenge, Rob brought a fire truck, put a ladder to Bob's back and let him pour water on top of Bob’s hose. But Bob does not stop his concert, he tries to protect himself from an jet of water with an opened umbrella, and when the cold streams of water continue to pour over him, the passionate musician begins to retreat deep into the garden, and the vengeful Rob, sitting on his back, moves with him and mercilessly douses him whole streams of water. So the vengeful Rob took revenge on his rival Bob. <...> The first Russian comedies were not successful. - B. Likhachev “Cinema in Russia” - L., 1927, pp. 57-59

Notes

↑ “History of the Russian Drama Theater. Volume 7. 1898-1917. " - M., 1987
↑ V. Vishnevsky “A. S. Pushkin and his work on the screen. Historical and Filmographic Review. " - Cinema notes. - 1999. - No. 42
↑ ¹ ² V. Mikhailov “Stories about the cinema of old Moscow”. M., 2003
↑ ¹ ² V. Vishnevsky “Documentary films of pre-revolutionary Russia”. M., 1996
↑ V. Korotky “Directors and cameramen of Russian feature films”. M., 2009
↑ B. Likhachev “Cinema in Russia”. L., 1927

Literature

Ivanova V., Mylnikova V., Skovorodnikova S., Tsivyan Yu., Yangirov R. // The Great Kinemo: Catalog of preserved feature films of Russia (1908-1919). - M .: New Literary Review, 2002. - S. 568.
Khanzhonkov A. A. The early years of Russian cinematography. - M .: Art, 1937. - S. 172.
Vishnevsky V. Documentary films of pre-revolutionary Russia. - M .: Museum of Cinema, 1996 .-- S. 285.
Mikhailov V. Tales of the cinema of old Moscow. - M .: Mainland, 2003 .-- S. 280.
Short V. Directors and cameramen of Russian feature films (1897-1921). - M .: Research Institute of Motion Picture Arts, 2009. - P. 285.
Likhachev B. Materials on the history of Russian cinema. Part 1. 1896-1913. - L .: Academia, 1927 .-- S. 210.
Sobolev R. People and films of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema. - M .: Art, 1961 .-- S. 175.
Sadul J. The general history of cinema. T. 2: cinema becomes art (1909-1914). Chapter 11: the first steps of Russian cinema (1909-1914). - M .: Art, 1958. - S. 281-306.
Mislavsky V. Jewish theme in the cinema of the Russian Empire, the USSR, Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries (1909-2009). Filmographic section: Fiction films (1909-2009). 1909-1918 .. - Kharkov, 2013 .-- S. 55-97.
Mislavsky V. Cinema in Ukraine. 1896-1921. Data. Films. Names Kharkov: Torsing, 2005.
L. Forestier. Memoirs of a cameraman. - M. , 1945.
V. Vishnevsky. A. S. Pushkin and his work on the screen.
R. Sobolev. People and films of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema. - M. , 1961.

[1] “History of the Russian Drama Theater. Volume 7. 1898-1917. " - M., 1987

[2] V. Vishnevsky “A. S. Pushkin and his work on the screen. Historical and Filmographic Review. " - Cinema notes. - 1999. - No. 42

[Михайлов-3] ¹ ² V. Mikhailov “Stories about the cinema of old Moscow”. M., 2003

[Вишневский,_док.-4] ¹ ² V. Vishnevsky “Documentary films of pre-revolutionary Russia”. M., 1996

[Короткий-5] V. Korotky “Directors and cameramen of Russian feature films”. M., 2009

[Лихачёв,_13-6] B. Likhachev “Cinema in Russia”. L., 1927