Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Directed by Dziga Vertov
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.
Duration
0h 20m
Released
March 24, 1925
Cast0
Part ofThe Kino-Pravda
Includes Kino-Pravda No. 1 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 2 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 3 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 4 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 5 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 6 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 7 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 8 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 9 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 10 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 11 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 12 (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution (1922), Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923), Kino-Pravda No. 15 (1923), Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel (1923), Kino-Pravda No. 17 (1923), Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality (1924), Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean (1924), Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda (1924), Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925), Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story (1925), and Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda (1925).
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