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Turksib [electronic resource] / directed by Victor A. Turin ; produced by David Shepard

Published
Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, 1929.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (57 min.).
Additional Creators
Shepard, David and Turin, Viktor Aleksandrovich, 1895-1945
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Language Note
This edition silent with English intertitles and musical background.
Summary
During the 1920s, Soviet documentary and fiction films were financed by the State, and their fledgling directors, some barely out of their teens, converted their lives from theater, engineering, painting and journalism to the practice and theory of a revolutionary cinema devoted to showing the achievements and aspirations of the new Socialist society. Their problem was to captivate an enormous, culturally diverse, multi-lingual, semi-literate population in ways that would be emotionally compelling, yet ideologically clear. The proven ability of movies to achieve this difficult goal inspired Lenin's famous dictum, 'For us, cinema is the most important art,' and their stunning innovations recharged world cinema. Editing, or montage, is the common organizational basis of these films and each of the filmmakers believed the arrangement of shots to be the foundation of film art. Viktor Turin's Turksib (1930) is a stirring chronicle of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway. The film, using montage techniques, was a major inspiration to the British and American documentary film movements of the 1930s.
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["00:57:16"]
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Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 4, 2014).
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Other Forms
Previously released as DVD.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Silent film online). Available via World Wide Web.
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