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...years. Since this excerpt from it, which the producers expect to follow with two more feature length pictures and a series of short travelogs, is unsatisfactory, the future of Eisenstein's monster is likely to be as controversial as its past. In 1931 Paramount hired Director Eisenstein, whose Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World were probably the best pre-talkie Russian cinemas to go to Hollywood. He worked for three months on An American Tragedy, was then re moved because he was "too unusual." Upton Sinclair and some of his friends put up $100,000, sent Eisenstein...
...tendency for propagandas, always present in Russian pictures, emerges in the over-zealous portrayal of the cruelty of the Cossacks and of the officers of the Potemkin. The inevitable conclusion is the unity of brotherhood of the Soviets building railroads and industrial plants...
Based on the culmination of centuries' growth of the spirit of self consciousness in the Russian people with the mutiny of the crew of the armored cruiser Prince Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's "Potemkin," now showing at the Fine Arts Theatre, is a high-strung, example of the possibilities of the silent film. Director Eisenstein's masterful use of highly dramatical material, although artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects...
Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein, greatest of Soviet cinema directors, returned from two years in Hollywood and Mexico last spring, found to his consternation that he could no longer make serious films such as The Armoured Cruiser, Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. Instead, last week Comrade Eisenstein was filming belly laughs...
...When the Revolution started, he was 19. He enlisted in the engineering corps. After the War, he joined the Protecult, first Russian workers' theatre. His first assignment was Jack London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...