Acting

Vasiliy Konstantinov

Born January 1, 1899 · Gagarino, Zadonskiy uezd, Voronezhskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Died January 1, 1952 · aged 52

Film equipment designer, director, operator. In the 1920s, the operator of the Moscow newsreel studio. In the early 1930s, he moved to film studios at the studio. There he is working on the creation of the first domestic film camera. Since 1932, working in the Moscow workshops of «Soyuzkinohronika», together with his brother Nikolay, they created the first sound filming apparatus, the «Khronikon»,…