Adam Wisłocki w wileńskim okresie działalności 1923–1927: przyczynek do biografii fotografa i filmowca w świetle nieznanych archiwaliów
Adam Wisłocki during the Wilno Period of His Activity 1923–1927: a Contribution to the Biography of the Photographer and Filmmaker in the Light of Unknown Archival Material

Summary/Abstract: Adam Wisłocki is a recognised filmmaker and photographer, who perfected his workshop under none else but Jan Bułhak, professor at the Stefan Batory University in Wilno. Nonetheless, pertinent writings about this colourful figure remain modest, and the Wilno stage of his activity still calls for detailed studies. Today, it is possible to ascertain in the light of up to now unknown archival material that from 16 June 1923 to 30 April 1924 Wisłocki worked at the Art Department in the Office of the Government Delegate in Wilno. His chief duties included taking photographs of historical monuments in the Wilno and Nowogródek voivodeship. The resultant photographs comprised the core of the Art Department in Wilno; today they are kept at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, Wisłocki was a secondary school teacher. From 1 November 1924 to 32 August 1926 he taught geography at the Józef Piłsudski State Gymnasium in Święciany (Wilno voivodeship), and from 1 September 1926 to 1 January 1928 he was a teacher of geography, contemporary Polish studies, and history at the Tadeusz Czacki Co-educational Gymnasium in Wilno. At the time, his great accomplishment as a filmmaker was the commemoration of the coronation of the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Ostra Brama, which took place in 1927. The film won the recognition of the state authorities, film critics, and audience, and the press hailed Wisłocki as its chief author. In the wake of this success Wisłocki left for Warsaw, where he found employment in the Central Film Office.

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