Illustrations

1

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station

2

Stenka Razin

3

The Cameraman’s Revenge

4

The Queen of Spades

5

The Woman with a Dagger

6

Arsen Dzhordzhiashvili

7

Newspaper advertisements for Cinématographe Lumière presentations

8

Filming 1812

9

The Biograph in the 21st Century’

10

Drama in the Futurists’ Cabaret No. 13

11

Not Born to be Rich

12

Shackled by Film

13

I and My Conscience

14

The Picture of Dorian Gray

15

A Life for a Life

16

Engineer Prite’s Project

17

Lunacharsky and Mayakovsky

18

Overcrowding

19

Poster for Overcrowding

20

Father Sergius

21

Polikushka

22

Cine-Pravda

23

Cover of the manifesto ‘Eccentrism’

24

On the Red Front

25

Dziga Vertov

26

Alexei Gan

27

The Palace and the Fortress

28

The Little Red Devils

29

Glumov’s Diary (from Enough Simplicity for Every Wise Man)

30

Sergei Eisenstein in 1923

31

Members of the Cine-Eye group

32

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

33

Aelita

34

Leningrad cinemas repertory poster

35

The Adventures of Oktyabrina

36

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

37

Poster for Cine-Eye

38

The Strike

39

His Call

40

A peasant fílm audience

41

The ‘Goz’ mobile projector

42

The Bay of Death

43

The Lenin Cine-Pravda

44

Members of the Lef group

45

The Devil’s Wheel

46

The Bear’s Wedding

47

The Battleship Potemkin

48

The Battleship Potemkin

49

Tisse filming Potemkin

50

Esfir Shub

51

The Mother

52

Women of Ryazan

53

The End of St Petersburg

54

The Little Brother

55

The Poet and the Tsar

56

A Sixth Part of the World

57

The End of St Petersburg

58

Osip Brik

59

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

60

Miss Mend

61

October

62

The House on Trubnaya

63

October

64

The Salamander

65

Poster for The Eleventh Year

66

Posters for The Mysterious Hacienda and An Ordinary Story

67

Discarded sequence from October

68

The Man From the Restaurant

69

Moscow in October

70

October

71

October

72

Vladimir Fogel

73

Nato Vachnadze

74

The Ghost That Never Returns

75

Penal Servitude

76

The Man With the Movie Camera

77

A Fragment of Empire

78

Storm Over Asia

79

The General Line

80

The Overcoat

81

New Babylon

82

The Arsenal

83

Chicago

84

Lev Kuleshov

85

The White Eagle

86

Turksib

87

The Man With the Movie Camera

88

Enthusiasm (The Donbass Symphony)

89

The Earth

90

By the Law

91

Two Days

92

A Simple Case

93

Pavel Tager and Alexander Shorin

94

Poster for Judas

95

Using sound equipment on Enthusiasm

96

Vertov and Svilova

97

On location for New Babylon

98

New Babylon

99

The Path to Life

100

Outskirts

101

Men and Jobs

102

The Great Consoler

103

The Deserter

104

Lieutenant Kizhe

105

Chapayev

106

The Youth of Aaxim

107

Alone

108

The Youth of Maxim

109

Three Songs of Lenin

110

Pilots

111

Peasants

112

The 1935 Film-Makers’ Conference

113

Counterplan

114

The Youth of Maxim

115

Vertov, Eisenstein and Pudovkin

116

Chapayev

117

Pilots

118

Three Songs of Lenin

119

The Happy Guys

120

We From Kronstadt

121

Volga-Volga

122

Komsomolsk

123

Alexander Nevsky

124

The Vyborg Side

125

Peter the First

126

The Circus

127

Bezhin Meadow

128

Bezhin Meadow

129

The Last Night

130

Shchors

131

A Great Citizen

132

Minin and Pozharsky

133

Eisenstein directing Alexander Nevsky

134

Alexander Nevsky

135

Film Companies’ trademarks