Abstract
This study explains the early career of the Czech film director Ladislav Rychman including forming his professional orientation, creative approach and features. Dealing with the transmedia directors concept, it analyses the Ladislav Rychman's way to making the first film musical in Czechoslovakia - The Hop-Pickers from 1964.
Working on short and documentary films, advertising films, televi-sion entertainment shows and formats, music films and film musicals, polyecran projects, Ladislav Rychman transposed his creative know-how between culture industries, media and formats simul-taneously during his longlasting career. The aim of the study is to reveal this transmedia transfer of institutional and stylistic practices in Rychman's career towards The Hop-Pickers.