Open AccessState-Owned Photo-Cinematic Joint-Stock Company Sovkino (1924-1930): History and Purposes of Creation
Author(s) -
Varvara A Zhdanova
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik738-17
Subject(s) - joint stock company , movie theater , stock (firearms) , period (music) , business , stock exchange , economy , finance , economics , history , art history , art , archaeology , aesthetics
The article treats pre-history of the above Joint-Stock Company Sovki- no(1924-1930) in the social, cultural and history oriented period context. Creation of Sovkino was caused by the authorities effort to further centralize and own cinema industry. The new company was meant to consolidate film distribution in the Socialist Russian Federation, villages included, establish a film fund to show in workers clubs as well as a film fund for children. New archive sources and data of the 1920s are used in the research of Sovkino activities.