THE BULGARIAN FILM INDUSTRY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004500390008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 6 August 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The CinWStography,'.Cgmmittee (Kinematograf Koaeitet),, directly subordinate to the
Council of Ministerp,controls all matters concerning film production in Bulgaria.
The Committee, located at No. 135 Rakovska Street, was established immediately
after the dissolution of the Oinenlatography Directorate.
2. Newsreels, particularly the well-known Novosti Dniye (News of the Day), are
made in a 6-story studio on Shvedski Street, ' near the Levski Monument. The
staff of this studio numbers approximately 100, all of whOM , are Bulgarians.
3. The majority of all scenes for Bulgarian movies are now shot in the studio on
Lyuben Karavelov Street, now known as Pavi3?i No. 2. Full-length films are
made at the Tulovo Studio, located,in the Tulovo section of Sofia near the
Italian Legation. The producers and technicians of this studio were all trained
abroad; a number of them studied for four or five years in the USSR, Czecho-
slovakia, or Poland. The studio's equipment includes:
a. Three or four German "Moviola" (montage) machines;
b. A "Band-Spieler" of German manufacture, operating on eight channels and
purchased from the USSR in 1952;
c. Several "magnetophones," one for 16 millimeter films? purchased from Ger-
many, and one for 32 millimeter films, purchased from the USSR;
d. One "Kammer-Wagen" for outdoor shooting; and
e. One "sound ear" for outdoor shooting.
The Gurka Film Dubbing Studio, located at No. 52 Gurka Street, was established
in 1940 to synchronize foreign films. The first two years3of its existence were
devoted to installation of equipment and training of personnel. In 1952, the
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The Bulgarian Film Industry
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Audio synchronized only two films, but in 1953 it completed the synchronization
.10 foreign films (1x incipally Chinese, German, Hungarian, Rumanian nd'.Czech).
Iii quipment of the studio is new and includes the following:
a. he "Band-Spieler4U of Italian manufacture, operating on three channels;
b. Two UMagnetophones,U one for 16 millimeter film, of unknown manufacture, and
one of German manufacture for 32 millimeter films;
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c. Two "Moviola" installations, one new and one old; and
d. Two new projectors of German manufacture, one Fabak and one Ernemann.
The total Bulgarian film production for 1953 consisted of 52 newsreels, made at
the studio on Karl Shvedski Street; four full-length original Bulgarian films,
made at the Tulovo Studio; and 10 synchronized foreign Mns, made at the Gurka
Film Dubbing Studio.
personalities
a. Traicho Dobroslavski, chairman of the Cinematographic Committee)
be Ivan Dzhanebetski, director of the Gurka Film Dubbing S+.udio
c., KhristO Mazdzhiev, ddeputy chairman of the Cinematographic Committed
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d.Rashev (fnu), deputy chairman of the Cinematographic Committee and holder of
the Dimitrov Prize
e. Angel Tsyetkoy, ibrmer director of the Gurka Film Dubbing Studio)
f. Yaniev (fnu), director of all film studios
g. Borislay Yak v
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