Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Date:
1931
Publisher:
London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Volume:
Celluloid : the film to-day
Leaf #:
000179
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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EARTH Directed by Alexander Dovjenkft {Produced by the Vufkju-Kino, Kiev, U.S.S.R., 1930) Since the films produced in the Soviet Union have become the playthings of the boys and girls of London's smart set, to say nothing of the denizens of Bloomsbury, Chelsea and Hampstead, it is fashionable to argue both for and against the Russian cinema. When, on the one hand, a hoary-minded critic denounces die films of Russia as one and all hysterical subversive propaganda which incite ordinary men and women to raze the Houses of Parliament to the ground; and when, on the other, a youthful enthusiast, carried away by his emotions, claims every Soviet film to be a masterpiece of cinematic art, we may well conceal a smile and go to see for ourselves what all the trouble is about. By now it is generally recognized, I think, that the film industry of Russia is entirely State-controlled, and that any production launched in the studios or on location in the Soviet Union has as its primary object the dissemination of Communist propaganda. Whether it is made for home consumption by the peasants and 135