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...Theatre, and lecture on the details of the film while it is on the screen. This special lecture, scheduled for this afternoon at the showing beginning at 5 o'clock, will be open to the general public as well. Professor Dana has had several interviews in Europe with Serge Eisenstein; director of this film, and has found Eisenstein's explanations of many of the unusual scenes so starting and interesting that he has retold them to his class...
...comparison of the moving picture and music as analogous arts is probably the most original part of the volume, while his critical discussion of the history of cinema since the days when it was used for peep-shows leads up to a final comparison of the Russian productions of Eisenstein and Pudowkin, representing the finest work in silent filming, and the talkies...
...Days That Shook the World, heralded as another masterpiece from Amkino (Russian) studios, producers of Potemkin, turned out to be a brilliant, tiresome piece of Soviet propaganda. In an impressionistic manner not, as is commonly believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have...
...curious thing about Potemkin is that Director S. M. Eisenstein, striving religiously to make his film the drama of a group, almost permits one character to emerge as hero. Such an effect would have ruined the general scheme, yet so keenly does the need for individual enterprise make itself felt, in even a glorified crowd, that the proletarian artist must give it at least grudging recognition...