Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda (1925)

1925 · Silent film · 14 min · dir. Dziga Vertov

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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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Details

Director

Dziga Vertov

Cinematography

Ivan Belyakov

Studio

Kultkino, Goskino USSR

Released

1925-03-24

Original title

Кино-Правда № 23: Радио Правда

Running time

14 minutes

Language

Russian

Collection

Silent Films, Feature Films

Cast & crew

• Dziga Vertov Director

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