| Description |
1 online resource (53 min.) |
| Series |
Silent film online |
| 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. Mikhail Kalatozov's documentary Salt for Svanetia (1930) explores the Caucasus region of Svanetia, a remote, mountainous area where the Ushkul tribe still lives in a stone-age culture |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 4, 2014) |
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This edition silent with intertitles in an undetermined language subtitled in English and musical background |
| Subject |
Svanetians -- Social life and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Svanetia (Georgia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001025
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| Subject |
Georgia (Republic) -- Svanetia.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Silent films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Kalatozov, Mikhail, 1903-1973, director.
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Shepard, David, producer.
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