Auction 78 Part 1 Children's book, postcards, photos.
By The Arc
Jun 5, 2021
Moscow, embankment of Taras Shevchenko, d. 3, Russia
The best artists and authors of the children's book of the USSR are presented: V. Vatagin, V. Konashevich, V. Kochergin, Lebedev, Radlov. Yu. Sooster, I. Kabakov, E. Bulatov, V. Pivovarov, Daniil Kharms, S. Marshak, the godfather of "Star Wars", the favorite of George Lucas - Pavel Klushantsev and other classics of the genre. Many cherished and fabulous photos and postcards.
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LOT 451:

Klushantsev P. Station "Luna". Artists of e. Voishvillo, Yu. Kiselev.

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Klushantsev P. Station "Luna". Artists of e. Voishvillo, Yu. Kiselev.

L. Children's literature. 1965, 64 p. Hardcover, 22 x 28 cm. Good condition, split block, scuffed cover.


Pavel Vladimirovich Klushantsev (February 25, 1910, Saint Petersburg — April 27, 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet cinematographer, film director, screenwriter, and writer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1970). The creator of informative films that aroused the audience's interest all over the world. He combined popular science movies with science fiction. It is considered the ancestor of this genre in world cinema. The author of many inventions, kinotryukov, technical devices, methods and techniques of combined filming, many of which were borrowed by filmmakers from different countries.

He was born on February 12 (25), 1910 in a house on Bolshaya Monetnaya Street in St. Petersburg in a noble family. His father, Vladimir Klushantsev, was from the town of Staritsa, Tver province. After graduating from St. Petersburg University, he worked for many years as a zemstvo doctor, then moved to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He received a personal nobility shortly before the birth of his son. After the revolution, he got a job as a controller for the Murmansk Railway. He died in 1919. My mother also came from a noble family. She died during the siege of Leningrad.
Paul read and wrote from the age of four. He dreamed of becoming a writer, but living in a communal apartment with his mother, he was forced to make a living by making and repairing furniture. To do this, he built a lathe on his own, on which he also turned chess for sale. He worked as a tutor with lagging schoolchildren, was engaged in drawing and graphic works for educational and scientific institutions, made models for the Military Sanitary Museum.
After graduating from high school, having established his desire for engineering specialties, he tried to enter the Institute of Technology, but did not pass the competition. As Pavel himself was sure-because of the questionnaire, where he indicated that his mother was from a noble family. He entered the Leningrad Photo-Film Technical School, where he graduated from the Faculty of Cinematography in 1930. He was assigned to the Leningrad film studio "Belgoskino", where he first worked as an assistant cameraman, and since 1932-as an operator. In 1934, he moved to the newly formed Tehfilm studio, where in 1935, together with Lazar Antsi-Polovsky, he made his debut as a stage director (the film "Seven Barriers"). In 1939, it was charged by the operator of the highest category. He founded a combined shooting workshop at the studio (1938), which he headed until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
After the end of the war, he returned to Lentekhfilm. He became the inventor of a number of innovative techniques and technical devices for combined and stunt filming, in particular, the luminescent method (together with the operator Anatoly Lavrentiev). Science-fiction motifs first appeared in Klushantsev in the film "The Universe" (1951) . They were fully realized in subsequent films, starting with the picture "The Road to the Stars" (1957). In 1962, the feature film "Planet of Storms" was released based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Kazantsev, shot together with Lenfilm. The rights to rent it were acquired by 28 countries around the world.
In total, over the years of his creative activity, he shot more than a hundred popular science films and stories for film periodicals.
Klushantsev knew and met with the general designer of the Soviet rocket and space systems, Sergei Korolev. Pavel Klushantsev delivered his own report "Attitude to the SETI problem" at the International Scientific Symposium on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Tallinn.
He is the author of many inventions, including a camera stabilizer for aerial photography, a device for underwater photography, a method for obtaining a color image, a point exposure meter, autofocus, a Klushantsev prism (for simultaneous shooting of nature and drawing), and others. His new and effective methods and techniques of combined shooting were subsequently adopted by a number of other directors, including Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, as well as special effects specialists, including Robert Scott.
He is the author of a number of popular science books for children and youth. The total circulation of Soviet editions of his books alone exceeded one and a half million copies. His books have been translated into 16 languages and published in 12 countries.
In film circles, there is a story that during his first visit to Moscow during the perestroika years, George Lucas asked Soviet officials to arrange a meeting with Pavel Klushantsev. However, it turned out that the officials do not even know who he is. When asked who Pavel Klushantsev was, Lucas allegedly replied: "Klushantsev is the godfather of Star Wars." The meeting of the two directors never took place.
In 1990, the American director of special effects Robert Skotak found Pavel Klushantsev, and in April 1992 visited him in St. Petersburg. Wanting to preserve at least some of his knowledge, Klushantsev donated descriptions, photographs and drawings of many of his film projects to Skotak. The director's daughter, Zhanna Klushantseva, claims that the director only answered Skotak's questions in detail in writing in 1990 and then during a brief meeting with him in 1992. Skotak used his professional experience in his work, including in the filming of the film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", which in 1992 was awarded the Academy Award for best special effects.
Pavel Klushantsev died on April 27, 1999 at the age of 90. He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery


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