Project Showcase
Interactive Version of Twelve Chairs
Gajdaj's film closely follows Il'f and Petrov's Dvenadtsat' stul'ev, a classic treasure hunt adventure with a Soviet twist. Over a hundred digitized scenes preserve the original story line, giving two hours of full-motion video. The software provides links to dialogue transcripts, linguistic, historical, and cultural notes, and English glosses by Slava Paperno and Viktoria Tsimberov.
A Visual Culture Course: Russian from the 18th Century to the Present
Production of a CD-ROM of a collection of more than 1,200 color slides, with textual comments, audio recordings of very brief lectures, and music samples. In collaboration with Lauren Leighton.