What is project 'Memory'?

It's an attempt to make guncam footage and aviation documentary footage from the Great Patriotic War (1941-45, the Eastern Front) more accessible to the general public.

The method is extremely simple: we order a copy of camera footage from the Russian State Archive of Camera and Photo Documents on a video tape. The tape is then digitalized, reworked into a full-scale documentary and recorded onto CDs and videotapes, which will then be available for purchase.

There is a shortage of finances on the initial stage of the project, which is compensated for in the following way: those really willing to see that the footage becomes available can make donations to the project. Those who made a donation will receive a status of 'investors' and all possible discounts when it comes to distribution of CDs and tapes with the documentary, and their opinion matters the most for further development of any parts of the project.

About the quality of the selected footage:
About 25% of it is pretty bad, 25% is average and extremely good makes up for the remaining 50%.

What will be on the 1st disc:
Guncam footage
Dogfights captured with ground cameras as well as cameras located on airborne platforms (NOT guncams)
Strafing ground targets
Flights of fighters and bombers
Pokryshkin - including his attack methods
Sgibnev - attacking a Ju-88
Defense of Baku against attacking Focke-Wulfs and Stukas by Spitfires (among others)
Night bombing raid of long-range bombers
Some 'crude' cam footage from front-line airfields, e.g. first combat sorties of green pilots, refuellings, rearmings, damages, takeoffs, landings. IL-2, IL-4, SB, Pe-8, Su-2, MiG-3, Yak-1, Yak-9, Yak-7, La-5, Airacobras, I-16, I-153
Documentary of a young German pilot meeting the young Soviet pilot who shot him down.