International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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matograph) to give an accurate idea of real life under the Soviet regime and to create genuine cinematographic images of these truths. He achieved great mastery in filming and staging technique. We should recall also the « constructionist » group, which was formed in 1922, organized by A. Gan. This group was somewhat similar to the Kinokov Group. Its slogum was : « Show real life on the Film ». The first of its productions, « The Young Pioneers » was a failure. It found later in E. Schub, author of « The Fall of the Romanoff Dynasty », an artist capable of realizing intelligently the constructive film, by basing the mise en scene on documentary material. While working for the cinematographic chronicle and against the dramatic film, Dsiga Vert off none the less rendered considerable services to the latter. His methods of filming and of stage setting taught much to the artistic directors of the theatrical film. Sergius Eisenstein. — Following along the same lines as L. Kuleshoff and Dsiga Vertoff, and by his new method of staging in the proletarian educational theatre, S. Eisenstein has achieved great fame in cinematography. He at once turned his attention to the new subject matter and to the new type of cinema spectator. In addition to this, he realized the importance of form, which demanded special care in order to exercise a utilitarian influence, consonant with the aims to be impressed on the spectator (logical social-reflex method). In his first film « The Strike », the subject was made subordinate to the staging of the different pictures, each of which offered the spectacle of a given event, of an actor, or other single scene or episode. Eisenstein composed his films not around the different personages and the parts they were to play, but on masses. The individuals were no more than episodic figures. We have a brilliant example of this method in « The Potemkin Cruiser », a film which has been shown nearly all over the world and attracted the interest of the film experts of Europe and America. Vsevolod Pndovkin. — The drama dealing with contemporary social questions has a master of the first order in V. Pudovkin. The manner in which he screened Gorki's « Mother », and « The 677 —