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...film is full of inspired documentation which is at once more realistic and more poetic than any of Hemingway's. When the Loyalists make their crucial*The other, in Eisenstein's Potemkin (1925). air raid, they have to depend on a peasant who has spotted the hidden airfield near his birthplace. But the peasant has never been in the air before, and cannot read maps. From a new perspective, at a time when every lost second can mean failure as well as death, he can recognize nothing. In his despair, the face of this amateur actor submits...
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they get oil from Rumania by a roundabout rail route through Hungary or up the Danube, now frozen. He was told that former Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin has said: "The help Germany will get from Russia is much smaller than the British or the Germans themselves think...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
...straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...