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The Birth of Soviet cinema / written and narrated by Richard Schickel ; a production of Maxim Gorky Film Studio ; English language version adapted and produced by Harold Mantell.
LIBRA VHS Videorecording 392
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Schickel, Richard, author, narrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Soviet Union--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry.
- Soviet Union.
- History.
- Motion picture industry--Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (49 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Title on cassette label: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko : the birth of soviet cinema
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, [1996]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Examines the golden age of cinema in the 1920s in Russia by presenting excerpts from the masterworks of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Dovzhenko as they provided propaganda vehicles for the Revolution and as they have become universalized as artistic achievements. Explains why the 1920s was a productive time for cinema in general.
- Credits:
- Editor, Michael Misch.
- Notes:
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- OCLC:
- 37136082
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 114 Films for the Humanities
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