“The Old Belarusian People’s Theatre”. A newsreel of a scientific fact

The article considers the artistic and informative approaches to the creation of the scientific film “Old Belarusian Folk Theatre”. The film was produced in Belevichi village of Slutsk district in April 1962 on the initiative of a group of scientists from the Institute of Art Studies, Ethnography and Folklore of BSSR Academy of Sciences and the Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute V. I. Nefed, K. N. Sannikov, G. I. Baryshev and S. M. Misko. Considerable attention is paid to the study of the circumstances of making, scientific and creative motivation of the film’s authors, as well as to the issues of further use, scientific representation of this science-intensive film-documentary.The article actualizes the problem of using tools of newsreel fixation for science, particularly for preservation, research and popularization of Belarusian traditional culture, when a documentary camera-observer is able to connect the view of a scientist and qualified researcher with the view of a spectator.