Sphere of cultureSphere of culture2713-301XSamara State Institute of Culture8278210.48164/2713-301X_2021_4_77Research ArticleSpecial effects in soviet cinema: the method of «combined perspective»BogdanovaElena S.<p>Chief Specialist, Department for the Study and Publication of Documents</p>bogdanova-rga@mail.ruRussian State Archive in Samara1509202122778407102021Copyright © 2021, Bogdanova E.S.2021<p>The Russian State Archive in Samara is a unique center for storing materials on the history of Russian science and technology and preserves many interesting documents from the All-Union Research Film and Photo Institute concerning the history of Soviet cinema. In world cinema, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of technical experiments and research, and combined shooting became one of the best ways to solve increasingly complex production problems. This article presents two archival documents that provide a detailed description of the practical application of one method of combined shooting that of perspective alignment. The films The Golden Key (1938) and Ruslan and Lyudmila (1939) were made using this method, and they represent a milestone in the development of special effects in the history of world cinema.</p>archival documentcinemacombined shootingperspective combinationA.L. Ptushkoархивный документкинематографкомбинированные съемкиперспективное совмещениеА.Л. Птушко[Masurenkov, D. (2011) Etapy razvitiia kombinirovannykh s”emok, Ch. I [Stages of the Development of Combined Filming, part 1]. MediaVision, 1/11, 43–46. (In Russian).][Davydova, I.N. (2016) Iz istorii sozdaniia sovetskogo kino: dokumental’nye svidetel’stva v fondakh Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva v g. Samare [From the History of the Creation of Soviet Cinema: Documentary Evidence from the Russian State Archive in Samara]. Audiovizual’nye dokumenty: 90 let sluzheniia Otechestvu: materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 90-letiiu Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva kinofotodokumentov. Moscow, 34–37. (In Russian).][Ptushko, A., Renkov, N. (1948) Kombinirovannye i triukovye kinos”emki [Combined and Stunt Filming]. Moscow: Goskinoizdat. (In Russian).][Ptushko, A. Triukovye i kombinirovannye s”emki [Stunt and Combined Shooting]. (In Russian). URL: https://chapaev.media/articles/11940 [Accessed: 12.04.2021].][Perspektivnoe sovmeshchenie. 1940 [Perspective Alignment]. (In Russian). URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk5i5UAf1Bk [Accessed: 29.04.2021].]