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KinoPravda No 23

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KinoPravda No 23
NR 20 minDocumentaryKino-Pravda PosterPart of Kino-Pravda
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Dziga Vertovdirected Soviet newsreel covering A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop Instructions to attach an antenna A broadcaststation is developed A concert is broadcast Though only a third of this final issue of KinoPravda seems to survive there still exists Aleksandr Bushkins timelapse animation and the sequence in which as Yuri Tsivian describes a crosssection of a photographically correct izba Russian peasants log hut is penetrated by schematically charted radio wavesa testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russias distant peasantry
DirectorDziga Vertov

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Original Language:Russian
Production Companies:Kultkino Goskino USSR
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russian revolution (1917)

Kino-Pravda

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.