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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

1925-03-24
5.4
ru 20m
Documentary
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station is developed / A concert is broadcast. Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, there still exists Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and the sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry.
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Kino-Pravda

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Director

Dziga Vertov

Director of Photography

Ivan Belyakov

Director of Photography

Mikhail Kaufman

Animation

Aleksandr Bushkin

russian revolution (1917)

Status

Released

Countries

  • Soviet Union

Companies

  • Kultkino
  • Goskino USSR