Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda(1925)

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda Synopsis

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station is developed / A concert is broadcast. Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, there still exists Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and the sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry.

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda (1925) is a documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov, released on March 24, 1925 with a runtime of 20m. Viewers rate it 5.4 out of 10 across 13 ratings.