Iz iskry—plamya [From Sparks—Flame], a poster by an anonymous artist. Ordered by [Proletkino], Moscow, 1924, 107 x 71 cm.

This Constructivist film poster announces the release of the first installment in the six–part epic about the revolutionary traditions of the Ivanovo–Voznessensk textile workers, written and directed by Dmitry Bassalygo and produced by the short–lived Proletkino Studios. The film itself was a commercial failure, and is now lost—but when shown at the Paris Arts Exhibition, it received a gold medal, on par with Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin!