Kino-Pravda No. 23

Synopsis

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station is developed / A concert is broadcast. Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, there still exists Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and the sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Dziga Vertov
Camera	Director of Photography	Mikhail Kaufman Ivan Belyakov
Visual Effects	Animation	Aleksandr Bushkin
Department	Role	Name

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