Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

Kino-Pravda

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

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Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

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Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution

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Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel

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Kino-Pravda No. 17

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Kino-Pravda No. 1

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Kino-Pravda No. 10

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Kino-Pravda No. 5

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Kino-Pravda No. 14

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Kino-Pravda No. 12

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Kino-Pravda No. 15

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Kino-Pravda No. 9

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Kino-Pravda No. 8

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Kino-Pravda No. 3

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Kino-Pravda No. 6

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Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean

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Kino-Pravda No. 4

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Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda

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Kino-Pravda No. 2

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Kino-Pravda No. 11

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Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

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Kino-Pravda No. 7

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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

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