Mislavskiy V. Building-up of film production and film distribution in Ukraine. 1896–1917: historical and critical aspect.

The dissertation is a devoted to the process of the formation and development of film production and film distribution in Ukraine in 1896–191. The research is a complex analysis of historic tendencies, social, political, economic and cultural conditionality. The principal postulates and conclusions is a result of the study of historical documents which reveal the prerequisites for the beginnings of film production, the origin and building-up of the integral film distribution system, the specific character of the functioning of motion-picture houses in various social, political and economic contexts, the making of cinematographic society in the first decade of the 20th century, preconditions and the process of the popularization of educational cinematography.