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This document is a resolution of the Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions regarding the organization of an oblast seminar for leaders of amateur film studios, clubs, and cinematographers. It is a common example illustrating the degree of formalization and bureaucratic structuring within the coordinated amateur film community during the Soviet era. In its contents, we discern a distinct chain of command prevalent within the inter-republican hierarchy: the Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions — the Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions — the Lviv Oblast Club-Laboratory of Trade Union Cinematographers — People’s Film Studio (one among several).

Title:

Resolution on work of Lviv oblast amateur film studios, clubs, and cinematographers, 1986

Year:
March 27, 1986
Source:
Archive of the Kameniar People’s Film Studio of the Ukrainian Society for the Deaf in Lviv, Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History
Original language:
Russian

Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions
LVIV OBLAST COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
SECRETARIAT

RESOLURION

of 27 March 1986, Lviv #St-15

Regarding the organization of an oblast seminar for leaders of amateur film studios, clubs, and independent cinematographers

To enhance the ideological, creative, and technical proficiency of leaders of amateur film studios, clubs, and independent cinematographers, and in light of the preparations for the oblast competition of amateur films, dedicated to the XVII Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR, the Secretariat of the Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions RESOLVES:

  1. To convene an oblast seminar for leaders of amateur film studios, clubs, and independent cinematographers, to be held in Lviv at the People’s Film Studio “Karpaty” Oblast Club-Laboratory of Trade Union Cinematographers, from April 25th to April 27th, 1986.
  2. To approve the budget estimate for the oblast seminar in the sum of 949 (nine hundred and forty-nine) rubles and 30 kopecks. To authorize (see Annex No. 1).
  3. To assign the organization of the oblast seminar to the Lviv Oblast Club-Laboratory of Trade Union Cinematographers

 

Chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions:                                                                      H.M. Pyzhyk*

* Seal: “Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions. Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions / Ukrainian Republican Council of Trade Unions. Lviv Oblast Council of Trade Unions.”

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