VGIK will digitize film posters of the last century and the work of Eisenstein's students

2022: Digitizing 20th century movie posters and Eisenstein students' work

On June 22, 2022, the Elar company announced that the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov would create electronic copies for the collection of documents on the ElarSkanA1-600 CC domestic planetary scanner.

For more than 100 years of history, VGIK, which is classified as a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, has accumulated a collection of documents related to cinema. Among them: more than 9 thousand movie posters of different eras; a library fund of more than 250 thousand copies; works of students and teachers from the methodological fund of the art faculty of VGIK, numbering more than 10,000 works collected since 1938; antique magazines about cinema, archival documents on the history of VGIK and domestic cinema in general. Among the most valuable materials requiring digitization are a collection of film posters, among which there are copies dating from the 20s and 30s of the last century, and thesis works (storyboard albums, etc.) by students of such masters as Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin.

The universal scanner ElarSkanA1-600 KS, designed for contactless digitization of A1 + originals, will help VGIK save a valuable collection of film documents in digital format. Domestic equipment will allow, if desired, to digitize both large posters and sewn documents, up to 30 cm thick and weighing up to 50 kg. ElarScan scanners are registered in the RAP Register and meet import substitution requirements.

"The obtained electronic copies will be introduced into the exposition of the VGIK Museum, used at exhibitions and in print media, as well as collected on a specially created electronic resource that allows you to introduce into general cultural use and make the heritage of the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov accessible to a wide audience," says Sergey Kirillovich Kapterev, leading researcher at the VGIK Research Center, deputy. Director of the VGIK Museum