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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

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Release1925
Runtime0H 20M
LanguageNo Language
StatusReleased

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.

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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda backdrop 1

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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda poster 1
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda poster 2

Director

Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

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Keywords

russian revolution (1917)

Collection

Kino-Pravda

Kino-Pravda

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Countries:Soviet Union
Production:KultkinoGoskino USSR