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THE SOVIET FILM
which deal with the scenarios and manuscripts sent from the people, and with the examination of literature, documents, etc., published in Russia and abroad that would make possible film material. The realisation of the films, once the subjects are chosen, is again a matter of close collaboration. The production units are allotted, according to their characteristics, to deal with such subjects as are deemed suitable to them. The workers in every studio (directors, cameramen, scenarists, architects, etc.) are all catalogued and labelled, so to speak, with regard to their individual qualifications. In this way the achievement of perfect collectivism is attempted in film production.
The majority of the technicians and acting personnel go through special courses of training before assuming their positions in the studios. As is well-known, there exists the Moscow State School of Cinematography, which was founded in 19 19 for the intensive training of workers in all branches of the industry. There are also several other schools throughout the country, in Leningrad and in the Ukraine. All producing firms have to give a certain number of positions in their studios to graduates from the State schools. In the latter, every section of film production is included, so that before entry into a studio a worker has some knowledge of film technique, acting, psychology, dramatic literature, make-up, acrobatics, dancing, etc., as well as his specialised skill in his particular job, be it scenario work, assistant-direction, photography, lighting, set-construction, or in the laboratory. There exists also the Feks group, at Leningrad, for the sole purpose of experiment and avant-garde work. All the State schools are regularly visited by the better-known directors and technicians, who lecture and instruct on theory and on their practical experience of production work.
Briefly, then, the cinema is the main medium of the Commissariat of Education for the instruction of the masses; and thus, we understand that the primary aim of the Soviet Government is to carry the principles of Bolshevism by means of the cinema, not only throughout Russia, but to the farthest corners of the world. If the intellectual classes of foreign countries find their aesthetic ideal in these films (as is the case) then so much the better for the Soviet, since it will render it easier for their content to be absorbed.
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