First National, 2005. A collection of stories about the development of Ukrainian television, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Ukrainian television.
The video features: a story about the first television studio in Ukraine; footage from the streets of Kyiv; the first announcer Olga Danilenko, studio manager M. Kaznevsky, and television director N. Deryugina; a story about the first television program, the Kyiv television center; stage artists Tymoshenko and Berezin watching television at home; television operators Y. Fedorov and V. Stepanenko sharing their memories; a story about the creation of regional and local television studios; excerpts from episodes of the program “Tempo”; a story about the establishment of regional television in Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi) and Sevastopol; UT veterans share their memories: director Ye. Cholak, actor P. Vesklyarov (Ded Panas); stories about the creative work of renowned television director V. Kisin and journalist Oleksiy Gubin, memories of his wife Raisa Gubina; journalist Vira Boyarenko on camera, memories of her by Volodymyr Yavorivsky; a story about the work of television operators during the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; excerpts from music programs, footage from 1996: a protest against the termination of Russian channels on UT; excerpts from programs by the youth studio “Gart”; a story about the murder of journalist Vadym Boyko; old TLZ equipment rooms; the development of commercial non-state television companies; footage from 1993: the TV center building on Khreshchatyk, the entrance hall, corridors, equipment rooms, video library; the adoption of the Law on Radio and Television Broadcasting; the aftermath of the fire in the first studio in 1997; the new TV center building on Melnikova Street.