(Кино-Правда № 23: Радио Правда)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Soviet Union

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

20 minutes

Year:

1925

Directors:

Dziga Vertov

Production companies:

Kultkino,

Goskino USSR

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Animation