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…

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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

Cast & crew

• Dziga Vertov Director

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