In B. Yaki, the Zelenodolsk District of the Republic of Tatarstan, a thematic film event was held with the participation of the Union of Cinematographers of the Republic of Tatarstan - a traveling exhibition of cinema and movie props. The mobile exhibition devoted to the Tatarstan cinema has traveled around the Tatarstan regions since 2016. The goal of the project is to show the development of cinema since the 1920s, XX century and attract a potential viewer to the cinema.
A special place among the exhibits is occupied by the domestic movie camera "Konas" of 1970, produced by the LOMO plant. In common, people called it "the three-eyed". This name it received due to the presence of three interchangeable lenses, which made shooting mobile. In addition, permanent photographs and movie cameras, microphones, a self-made box for cinema cameras for underwater photography, a gramophone, an old wicker cradle, which was used in the filming of the Kurban - Roman movie, are permanent exhibits.
Within the framework of the exposition presentation, a documentary film “From our archives” was shown, and then a full-length feature film “Baigal”, directed by I. Yagafarov in the Tatar language. The event was attended by 185 people.
We remind that the active members of the Union of Cinematographers of the Republic of Tatarstan, O.G. Surov and V. A. Klyachkin, initiated the educational project “The Breath of Time” as part of the Year of Russian Cinema. With financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, residents of 13 districts of Tatarstan were able to touch the history of Tatarstan cinema. A traveling exhibition of cinema and cinematographic with a showing of a chronicle - documentary film about the development and formation of the cinema of Tatarstan and creative meetings with famous Tatarstan filmmakers fell in love with the audience of school age. Visiting are regularly carried out in schools, district and rural houses of culture.