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THE SOVIET FILM opportunities to participate in realisations, to write scenarios » and to vote approval or disapproval of a film content before production takes place There are said to be organisations for the close cooperation between producing companies and the people, so as to enable subjects of significance to all classes to be represented But it must be remembered, Russia is a vast country with great spaces of thinly populated land in the agricultural districts where villages are separated by many miles. In order to secure exhibition of films in these districts therefore, there are travelling cinemas, each of which takes a monthly route, visiting about twenty villages. When it has completed its round, it begins again with a new programme Thus even the most isolated villages are kept constantly in touch with movements ,n the towns. Each of the latter has, of course, its cinemas and statistics show a rapid increase in theatres during the last few years. The distribution of films takes place almost exclusively through Government channels; films carrying different contents being sent to various parts, according to the State's calculation of the needs of the populace ,n each district. In this way, the cinema reaches and influences the minds of the workers, the tradesmen, and the citizens
Turkester3' " **" ** ^ PCaSantS " ^^ 3nd the tribesmen » Hence, the content of every film is its raison d'etre, whether of ocial, heroic, epic, historical, romantic, human, or national importance. Moreover, it is out of the desire to express this content with the greatest amount of emotional effect on the simple minds of the / masses that the cinematic technique of Soviet directors has developed / n theworld effiden°y eqUa"ed by "° other ^"Producing country
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Soviet films fall into various classes, each made for a special purpose tnd these are roughly as follow: '
(a) General subjects dealing with life before, during, and after he revolution, including satires, dramas, comedies, melodramas, etc rhe usual aim of these pictures is to show the tyranny and oppression mder the Czanst regime and the benefits derived from Bolshevik ontrol. The subject is approached through various channels viz.,
» Leon Moussinac in Le Cinema Sovtetique gives the foil™;™ ;_« hat, m 1927, the Sovkino received no fewer than 2 1 «~ ° < 8 mf°rmatlon Ailst the Vufku-kino, in the same year had more than ^oo * ^ ^ PuWic:
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