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Original vintage cinema magazine produced in the USSR in the 1920s. It was published and distributed in Leningrad, Moscow and Berlin. Constructivist design covers, typography, textual film posters and news of the film industry in Russia and worldwide. This issue is #39 from 28 October 1924. Contents include: photomontage cover design for a film Lost Treasure, text posters for Aelita, insert with week itinerary for movie theatres of Leningrad, centerfold for a film Red Partisans with photomontage by L.A.B. and stills from the film, article about the release of Kino-Glaz (Cinema Eye) by Dziga Vertov, photomontage poster for Kino-Glaz with en eye in the centre designed by A Rodchenko (reference Rodchenko - Stepanova, Prestel, 1991, page189). Very good condition, minor rubbing and bumps on the margins, 5.5 cm split in covers on the bottom of the spine. 28 pages, 34.8x26.2, print run 25,000.In the 1920s, the documentary film group headed by Vertov blazed the trail from the conventional newsreel to the "imagecentered publicistic film", which became the basis of the Russian film documentary. Typical of the 1920s were the topical news serial Kino-Pravda and the film Forward, Soviet! by Vertov, whose experiments and achievements in documentary films influenced the development of Russian and world cinematography. Other important films of the 1920s were Shub's historical-revolutionary films such as The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. The film Hydropeat by Yu. Zheliabuzhsky marked the beginning of popular science films. Feature-length agitation films in 1918-21 were important in the development of the film industry. Innovation in Russian filmmaking was expressed particularly in the work of Eisenstein. The Battleship Potemkin was noteworthy for its innovative montage and metaphorical quality of its film language. It won world acclaim. Eisenstein developed concepts of the revolutionary epic in the film October. Also noteworthy was Pudovkin's adaptation of Gorky's Mother to the screen in 1926. Pudovkin developed themes of revolutionary history in the film The End of St. Petersburg (1927). Other noteworthy silent films were films dealing with contemporary life such as Barnet's The House on Trubnaya. The films of Protazanov were devoted to the revolutionary struggle and the shaping of a new way of life, such as Don Diego and Pelageia (1928). Ukrainian director Dovzhenko was noteworthy for the historical-revolutionary epic Zvenigora, the Arsenal and the poetic film Earth. Source: Wikipedia
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Kino Week Magazine Soviet Film 1924 #39 Posters Vertov
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