Word: potemkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intends to use very little dialogue, if any, and asserts that the sound should not supply action but raise it to a higher emotional pitch. He freely criticised his own four pictures, "Strike", "Potemkin", "Ten Days That Shook the World", and "Old and New", flashes from the last three of which will illustrate his speech tonight...
...motion picture, feeling that the latter was a greater art. Since then he has rapidly risen to fame, although the number of his productions is comparatively small. Beginning in 1924, he has produced four pictures, the first of which was "Strike." This was followed, in 1925, by "Potemkin," produced on the twentieth anniversary of the unsuccessful Russian revolution of 1905. "Ten Days That Shook the World," released in 1927, commemorated the successful revolt of 1917. His latest picture is "Old and New," a production dealing with the agricultural problems of Russia, and contrasting the new and the outworn methods...
...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...