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urinate
to
fill the radiator of their tractor. Dovzhenko had his de–
fenders, but they operated on the same ultra-leftist plane as the censors.
One of them praised the last-mentioned scene as " an interesting
attempt to link up man organically with his machines."3!
REFERENCES
1.
Close· Up,
Oct., 1928.
2. N. T. Herald-Tribune,
Jan. 10, 1938.
3. Experimental Cinema,
No.5, 1934, p. 44.
4. Soviet Cinema,
edited by A. Arossev, (Voks, Moscow, 1935). P. 289.
5. Ernestine Evans : "The Soviet Idea in the Kino"
(Asia,
August, 1926) .
6. Much of the data on this early period comes from
L'Art dans la Russie
Nouvelle: Le Cinema
by R. Marchand and P. Weinstein (Les Editions Rieder,
Paris, 1927).
7. See No.6.
8. Soviet
Cinema~
p. 96.
9. Soviet Russia Today,
May, 1935.
10. Soviet Cinema,
~.
98.
12. Soviet Russia Today,
May, 1935.
13. S. M. Eisenstein: "Through Theatre to Cinema"
(Theatre Arts Monthly,
Sept., 1936).
14. Soviet Cinema,
p. 290.
15. N. T. Times,
May 26, 1929.
16. L. I . Monosson: "The Soviet Cinematography"
(Journal
0/
the Society of
Motion Picture Engineers,
Oct., 1930) .
17. Moscow News,
August 3, 1931.
18. S. M. Eisenstein: "Les Principes du Nouveau Cinema Russe"
(La Revue de
Cinema,
Paris, April, 1930).
19.
Close-Up,
Oct., 1930.
20. Rudolf Arnheim:
Film
(Faber
&
Faber, London, 1933), p. 232.
21.
Close-Up,
Dec., 1932.
22. Art in the U.S.S.R.
(published by The Studio, London, 1935) .
23. Close-Up,
June, 1933.
24. Experimental Cinema,
No. 5, 1934.
25. Speech by Ivor Montagu (in
Britain and the Soviets : Speeches at a Confer.
ence held in London, Dec.
7-8, 1935,
by the Friends of the U.S.S.R.)
26. N. T. Times, Feb.
7, 1932.
27. Kurt London:
Seven Soviet Arts,
p. 289. (Yale U . Press, 1938)
28. N. T. Times,
April 10, 1930.
29. Kurt London:
Seven Soviet Arts,
p. 133.
30. Moscow News,
Dec. 20, 1932 and April 25, 1933.
31.
Close-Up,
September, 1930 and
N . T . Times,
April 10, 1930.
T he second part of this article, which carries the history of the
Soviet cinema up to
1938,
will appear next month.
