Produkcja filmu krótkometrażowego w epoce gierkowskiej na przykładzie działalności Wytwórni Filmów Oświatowych

Abstrakt

The Educational Film Studio in Łódź (abbreviated in Polish as WFO) was a bustling film production centre in the Poland of the 1970s, with a yearly output of over 100 short films. The Studio had its own technical equipment and a fairly specialised workforce of over 450 employees – some of them provided services to other organizations, e.g. lab development for Se-ma-for. The Studio utilised a variety of genres, including advertisements, instructional films, science films, and even aspiring art films (e.g. the films of Wojciech Wiszniewski). The aim of this article is to analyse the production process that took place at WFO – both in case of the films commissioned by outside contractors as well as the typical agenda films. The study centres around three crucial stages of the short film production process: (1) pre-production and development, (2) filming, and (3) post-production. Adhering to the principles of production studies, a wide corpus of historical sources has been analysed in regard to films: Arena życia, Muzeum, Lekcja władzy, Kobiety pracujące, Hokej, Polam and Wanda Gościmińska. Włókniarka.