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Turksib / directed by Victor A. Turin ; produced by David Shepard.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Silent film online.
- Silent film online
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Turkestano-Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ.
- Railroads--Asia, Central--History.
- Railroads.
- Railroads--Soviet Union--History.
- History.
- Soviet Union.
- Central Asia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sound, black and white.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Flicker Alley, 1929.
- Language Note:
- This edition silent with English intertitles and musical background.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Silent Film Online, viewed Apr. 4, 2014).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Silent film online). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 881551164
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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