“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
| Directing | Roman Karmen | Director |
| Directing | Vasily Katanyan | Director |
| Directing | Leonid Makhnach | Director |
| Writing | Roman Karmen | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Novogrudsky | Writer |
| Camera | Leonid Kotlyarenko | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Igor Bgantsev | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Iosif Poselsky | Director |