(Resource created by Subject Specialist, Diana Greene, Slavic Studies Librarian)
There are over 1,100 Russian films in the Bobst Avery Fisher Collection including:
Early Russian Cinema: Films Before the Revolution A video anthology of 28 silent films from Russia before the 1917 Revolution (Avery Fisher Center, VCA 2950-2959)
Entsiklopediia Mastera Kino A collection of 245 classic Soviet films remastered on DVD.
To find Russian films in the Avery Fisher Collection:
search in the library's catalog for "Russian videorecording" OR "Russia videorecording" + a word of the title.
For Polish films:
search in the library's catalog for "Polish videorecording" OR "Poland videorecording" + a word of the title.
For Czech films:
search for "Czech videorecording" OR "Czech Republic videorecording" OR "Czechoslovakia videorecording" + a word of the title.
Russian and Soviet Film Journals in Microfilm and Paper
Early Russian Cinema (Leiden, Netherland)
A collection of 34 Russian film periodicals on microfilm, published between 1907 and 1917.
Call Number: MF 2734 RFP1-34
Sovetskii ekran (1926-1929)
Call Number: Spec.Col PN1993 .S694 Oversize
Kino i zhizn’
Call Number: PN1993 .S694 no.2,6[1930]
Ekran
v. 1-32, q1921-1922 (Bobst Microform Fiche by title)
Materials about Russian cinema can be found in the library's catalog or WorldCat by doing a subject search using the following headings
Motion Pictures, Russian
Motion Pictures—Russia
Motion Pictures—Soviet
Motion Pictures—Russia (Federation)
To do a subject search, go to the library catalog's Advanced Search and select "Subject" in first drop down menu.
