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A collection of excerpts from newsreels and documentary films of Soviet life in the early 1920s. Highlighted are the activities of Soviet children and youth of the Young Pioneers and Young Leninists, meat production, inmates of a tuberculosis sanatorium and an insane asylum, ambulance service, worke...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet po kinematografii, Kino International Corporation, Film Preservation Associates
Other Authors: Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954, Kaufman, Mikhail Abramovich, 1897-1980
Format: Video VHS
Language:Russian
Language Notes:Silent film with Russian intertitles, English subtitles and musical accompaniment.
Published: New York, NY : Kino on Video, [1999]
Series:Soviet avant garde.
Subjects:
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union > Social life and customs > 1917-1970.
Newsreels.
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Silent films.
Motion pictures, Russian.
Foreign films.
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Summary:A collection of excerpts from newsreels and documentary films of Soviet life in the early 1920s. Highlighted are the activities of Soviet children and youth of the Young Pioneers and Young Leninists, meat production, inmates of a tuberculosis sanatorium and an insane asylum, ambulance service, worker education, and appearances by a Chinese magician and an elephant.
Item Description:"Editing for the last two minutes of this film is conjectural. The editing is authentic until the title 'Mos-Soviet provides for the workers' education'"--Closing credits.
Originally produced in the Soviet Union as a motion picture in 1924; special contents of this edition c1999 by Film Preservation Associates.
Digitally mastered from a 35mm print.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Camera, Mikhail Kaufman ; editor, Yelizaveta Svilova ; music, Robert Israel.