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...pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting technically, but his approach? showing what the railroad means to the people for whom it was built?makes...
...Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold, Tairov; Cinema Directors Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP, NEP, GOSIZDAT (or simply. GIZ), AKHRR, OSA, all of which is clearly set forth in Voices of October. The Authors. No pop-eyed casual...
...Micky Mouse, the cartoon with sound shown in American theatres, is the best use of sound in films which have been produced in this country," said Serge Eisenstein, the famous Russian moving picture director, in an interview last night...
...Eisenstein will present at 8 o'clock tonight in the Baker Library of the Business School a lecture entitled "The Cinema as Art", which he has previously delivered before student audiences at the University of Berlin, the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. He is on his way to the west coast to direct a moving picture under a Paramount contract, which will probably deal with some feature of modern American life. Tickets for tonight's lecture have been distributed, but the doors will be thrown open at 7.45 o'clock...
Popularization such as the purely commercial talking pictures are forced into necessarily precludes a very considerable amount of mediocrity. But even in this field there have been several notable examples of excellent drama. In addition to this, such productions as M. Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook The World" and "Potemkin", conscious at tempts at pure artistry, do much to warrant the existence of the motion picture as an individual art divorced from the stage. That M. Eisenstein is lecturing in the Baker Library of the Business School Monday night under the auspices of the Department of Fine Arts...