Background
BOLTYANSKIY, Grigoriy was born on February 24, 1885.
BOLTYANSKIY, Grigoriy was born on February 24, 1885.
One of first Soviet newsreel producers. 1917 began film work in Social Chronicle Department, Skobelev Education Coml. Filmed events of February and October revol.
1918-1920 head, Newsreel Department, Petrograd Film Committee. 1920-1922 head, Newsreel Section, AllRussian Photography and Film Department, People's Commissariat of Education. 1922-1924 head, Newsreel Department, North Eastern Film Enterprises, People's Commissariat of Education.
1924-1926 head, Newsreel Department, Centr State Photography and Film Enterprises, People's Commissariat of Education. Filmed Lenin and his fueral. 1926 as head, Film Chamber, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts, established sci basis of Soviet film research.
1925, 1926 and 1940 organized exhibitions of film posters. 1927 organized the exhibition ’’The Cinema on the 10th Anniversary of the October Revol”. 1929 organized the xhibition ’’The Rural Cinema”.
1938 organized the exhibition ’’The Cinema in the Struggle Against Fascism". 1947 organized the exhibition” The Cinema on the 30th Anniversary of Soviet Rule”. Company-initiator of amateur film movement in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
1926-1931 chairman, Amateur Film and Photography Section, Social of the Friends of the Soviet Cinema. From 1931 lecturer, State Institute of Cinematography, where he organized a newsreel department. From 1943 worked on film chronicle of World War 2.