International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
International Review of Educational Cinematography
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
International Educational Cinematographic Institute
Volume:
International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)
Leaf #:
00079
Language:
English
Collection:
Non-Theatrical Film
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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From the very start, I actively opposed experimenting along strictly formal lines. To carry out experiments which cannot be verified, i. e., thrown on the screen, is impossible. Every effort was centred in another direction. Contrary to Vertoff whose starting point for most of his works was the material on hand, I endeavoured to « take » that material, laying greater stress on the fundamental lines of the picture even during the taking of the views. These lines had already been traced, based on a study of Afghanistan through literary works, — from ancient civilization to the Middle Ages, on the mountains, in villages and towns, — and starting anew from European civilization. We succeeded in maintaining them in spite of all difficulties, and in my opinion, that constitutes the principal merit of our enterprise. Ruins of towns founded thousand of years ago, with wild nomad tribes grazing their flocks in them. A village next to a feudal castle where the 'kichlaks' of the serfs till the soil from morning to night, using most primitive methods I feel certain that work will be possible under better conditions in the future, so that it will be easier to pass over the material on hand, even unknown to the spectator, in a more perfected form. I shall then feel satisfied to entirely give up literature as regards films ! Wladimir Jer; fejew. 69 —