Internet and Society: Google has launched a virtual tour of the "Mosfilm"

A virtual tour over “Mosfilm” could be now taken from Google website, said in a blog of Russian Google representatives.

The footages of shootings of the pavilions and the territories of the movie production pavilions, including technical rooms, the stands with photographs, costumes and the scenery models, and also the museum space of Mosfilm studios were first digitized within a framework of a joint project of Google Culture Academy and Mosfilm Cinema Concern.

The "Old Moscow" decoration built for the "The Rider Named Death" movie by Karen Shakhnazarov, taking an area of the entire city block, is also digitized. It has a manor estate, a pharmacy, a bakery and the churches that all look the way they were in Moscow in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Slightly changed, these stage sets were also used for shootings of films such as "The White Tiger" and "Anna Karenina."

In addition, the virtual exhibition tells a history of the “Mosfilm” studios from the State Cinema film studio formed in 1919 through the nationalization of the atelier belonging to Alexander Khanzhonkov and Joseph Yermolyev until the present day.

Mosfilm Cinema Concern celebrates this year its 90th anniversary. January 30, 1924, is assumed the studio’s birthday, when the premiere of the first feature-length silent film "Up on the Wings" directed by Boris Mikhin. The concern received a name "Mosfilm" only in 1935. More than 2500 films were produced at the studio.