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Sport. The first pan-Soviet Olympiad has been held in the Moscow physical culture and recreation park, and one of its chief attractions was the Film Olympiad, in which competitions all the cinema organisations of Soviet Russia exhibited their best artistic and educational films. The various pavilions contained everything serving to illustrate the development of the Soviet film industry, its present situation and future prospects.
The organising committee of this Film Olympiad includes representatives of film concerns, of the Society of Friends of the Soviet cinema, of the Association of the Revolutionary Cinematograph and of the cinema press.
Publicity. A Conference met recently in Moscow to consider means of reorganising Soviet film propaganda. In the course of the meeting various reports were submitted by experts on « the possibilities of developing film publicity » and « the functions of cinematographic advertising ».
The view was expressed that film publicity should be regarded as part of the cinema's educational work. The conference therefore prepared a number of schemes with a view to developing this among the more important activities of the Russian film.
Medicine and Surgery. The Photofilm Association has produced a film called « Cases of modern surgery ». It is made up of a number of pictures showing various surgical operations — a trepanning, a cancer
operation, a cutting open of the stomach, blood-transfusion and an X-ray experiment. All the photographs were taken under the direction of Professor Silverberger and Dr. Liubarsky.
Miscellaneous Soviet Film Notes. The Leningrad studios have started work on the art sound-film « The Unique » under the direction of Trauber and Kozintsov. Some of the photographs have been taken in the Altai mountains.
A number of purely documentary scenes from Central Asia, especially the Amudaria Basin, from the Kara-kalpakia and Lake Issikul have been filmed under the direction of the producer Bluvstein, the Eastern Cinema Company and Dr. Lapin.
In the opinion of the Soviets one of the most important problems of reconstruction is the question of public feeding, and it is held that the only way of rescuing workmen, and particularly working women, from the slavery of housekeeping is by establishing restaurants in offices and workshops, thus leaving the workers free to take an active part in social life. The Soviet Photocinema Association has therefore manufactured a film called « Office Restaurants », in the making of which the cinema has for the first time employed young men recruited from journalism and photography. The actors in the film are all students of the State technical school of cinematography (Carmen, Slutzki, Friedland and Samsonow).