 In the 1930s, Ignatovich began to work in cinema, in particular in documentary films.In 1930, he shot the documentary film "Today" at the Soiuz-kinokhronika studio, with a screenplay by Esphir Shub; stills from this film were published in the magazine "Kino i Zhizn"' (Cinema and Life).He also participated in the creation of one of the first sound films, "Olympiad of Art," and made an extensive series of aerial surveys of Leningrad from an R-5 reconnaissance plane for a special issue of "USSR in Construction".