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...this, as in all Soviet post-revolution cinemas, propaganda is paramount, though more subtle. It is a one-actor show as opposed to the mass-action of Potemkin, Ten Days that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival...
...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...
...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...