Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 24, 1925

Original language

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Goskino USSR,Kultkino

Director

Dziga Vertov

Cinematography

Mikhail Kaufman,Ivan Belyakov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0949743