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Sergei Eisenstein, who died recently, made only about

seven pictures during the 20 years ho devoted to the cinema. But, sayı Dr ROGER MANVELL, these rare works of art, and were. tho cause of moro discussion than

other major дпу

filmma that have been mado

wero

"I want to gẻ home."

A GREAT NAME IN CINEMA HISTORY

sant

point of view

by

ERNEST THURTLE, MP. REJECTING alko Labour

appeals and Liberal and episcopal advice, the peers have declared for a fight by defeat- ing the Parliament Bill.

However, no great political crisis will follow. Government plans have been carefully fold for this sltun- tion.

ה

Mr Morrison will set the constfit!- tlonal machine in motion and, due time, before this Parliament ends, the period of the Lords" power of voto will be cut down to ono. year.

Thus what might have been done by agreement, with a reformed Up- Der House thrown in, will como about by forca majeuro, with all ibgal formalities properly observed. Many Labour MPs disquieted by the negotiations which had been taking place, are relieved that the Lords have chosen to fight

*

*

ORD HENDERSON (Willie, as he was known to most of his old colleagues in the Commons) was surprise appointment as additional Under Secretary to the Foreign Onice.

am afraid it would be handling

with

★

habit

of

af selecting just the right pletures In a low-roofed shed, the pensants portrait close-ups of the heads of truth carelessly to say that the ap- to use in a flim; it is also the art gather to watch Martha and on the chief actors, and the heads. pointment has been received of assembling them in the right agricultural official from the city framed in gigantic white ruffs, ofi onthusiasm in the Parliamentary order and tempo. Rhythm is as demonstrate this wonderful machine, the old and cunning ambassadors Labour Party. much the basis of montage as the the cream-peparator.

There would, no doubt, have been The peasants of western Europe, Ivan is crowned subject-matter of the

welcome for someone pictures are doubtful. In close-up following without emphasis on the individunt: a warmer shown.

close-up, Elsenstein showe the the back of his head and his hands from the Commons, where naturally At the very beginning of Genera; doubt and crepticism in their lined receiving the symbol of offico are there is no lack of enger young Line, Elsenstein shows what and bearded faces. The women are all that are shown. A bass voice aspirants to office. ERGEI EISENSTEIN is montage can do. According to the there, as well. their tips puckered, of astonishing echoing quality rises

☆ dead.

в рдели of I do not know of old system in Russia, when a pea- unable to smile yet at the new in

In quarter-tones with It is landowner diod, his sona rigidly machine,

uncovered, any greater name in the divided the holding between them. draw back, astonished at this mass poured over his head, and splashes, his job well. He has

and thanksgiving. The Emperor turns, YET it must not be assumed that. glistens before their eyes. They and the ritual afrower of coins is

the new Minister will not do short history of the cinema. Eisenstein shows an extreme case For twenty years his work has of this.

We

see a woman sitting of shining metal, the gleams from to the ground in a stream of dancing industry, and is very thorough.

The women smile, but the If he fails it will not be for want been a field of study for film- silent, watching something with which dazzle the screen for a mo- light.

still face, her

ment. unt! we see heart in her eyes. makera all over the world. Not what is she watching?

clearly huge, menacing heads of the boylars of trying. what it is.

threaten the young Tsar.

The lack of enthusiasm for the that he made a large number The picture changes sharply: two The handle is turned. We wall Only niter all this play with appointment probably proceeds of pictures: in all, no more than bearded peasants are cutting a tensely to see what will happen, the musle, ritual; and symbolic por- mainly from a feeling that a strong about seven.

But these films house in half, sawing the roof-trees peasants' eyes staring as head after trallure docs Ivan announce his man is needed to deal with the cur-

with A two-handed saw, were rare works of art, and wards and forwards moves the saw, cream comes. There is a frenzy of and ringing speech.

Dacit- head fills the screen. Then the challenge to the old powers in plain rent problems of Germany and Aus-

tria. have, in consequence, caused in. put-to us, away from us-the delight Heads toss back with Meticulous Care more discussion and disagree- sawdust flying from its teeth.

laughter.

face TUSENSTEIN has, written and lee- films.

in again the picture of the seated is cover It, and she leans woman, brooding and sorrowing.

owing, back shouting with excitement. This cinema: much of his work still re

The

cream

with

more

and

Therefore, the appointment of an assiduour and conscientious assis tant, apparently new to these mat- Perhaps Lord Henderson, by his

ment than any other major Slowly, Elsenstein begins to bring spatters in the pails for tured widely on the art of the ters, hardly meets the case.

He was trained as an engineer into her; we forget the house. Her ment is conveyed in the main by But one book of his has been trans- | I ho does, so much the better for

and architect. He worked in the experimental theatre of the early days following the Rus- sian revolution. Then he turned his attention to the cinema. It was when his first outstanding silent film, The Buttleship Potemkin, WAS shown in Berlin in the middle 'twenties that his name became known in the world outside Russia.

theme.

public exhibition

Engineer's Precision

are

Soon the saw seems to be cutting is progress, indeed! This excite- mains untranslated into English works, will confound the doubters. feelings

incerated by this the way in which the pictures are lated by Jay Layda, and was him and the Government. known all her life, breaking up of the homie she has

Dynamic Link-Up THIS illustrates the editing princi- ple, the dynamle link-up of two or more quite different photo grapha to tint they take on a new and vital significance when cut-in rhythmically together.

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поте

10-

together their rhythm. now published in 1043 under the tile

The Film Sense, slow, now quick.

During an unfortunate perlod abroad,

It is not an easy book to read, SIR OLIVER FRANKS, our 1830, about

Elsenstein's but it shows

American Ambassador, In some detail the plans to make

a great film on the meticulous care with which Elsen ful first encounter with newspaper ported have had a very success- civilisation fell through, steln worked in the collective art Mexican with no constructive result except of motion

and picture

men in Washington. sound. for the wonderful

un-edited Elaborate but

diagrams are used to

Nobody who knows pictorial photography of the Mexi- sho

his quality the continuity of

will be surprised at this. Image will can scene by his colleague, Edward batte

pattern and music-pattern. Under Time will show, I think, that it

WAL A Tisse. Eisenstein then returned to Russid to make two sound films, Image,

such as Word and headings

a diplomatic stroke of genius to select

this gifted 43-year-old Ox- 'Colour

Meaning, and

tasic of re- Alexander Nevsky, and (during the Synchronisation of Senses, Elsen-erd don to take principle

war) Ivan the Terrible.

stein tries

to explain the reasons, presenting us in the

Nothing is more important at this and theories behind his work,

than stage in world history

the This book, The Flim Senzo, is full maintenance of close, friendly rola-

on the inner

Two other fine sequences from this aim Illustrate the which always operates

in Eisen- stein's pictures.

n

The Arst is the Tempo Slowed

chapter

in

Our new ambassador Impresses an between Britain and Amerles.

ideal man to promote this cauze.

* FRANKS is, Indeed, the best foots.

It was said that a new genius of the cinema was at work, a man who had taken the principles of the sequence of the prayer for rain COUND seemed to slow the tempo American master, D.-W. Grimth, upon the parched earth. Led by of his films. He always tended to of close reasoning and had

developed them with a the

the priests, the little

procession vision of his own. In the service of moves out over the dusty fields to see human beings as symbols of nature of Eisenstein's art; he will,

tre. I think, the future, I

be more a serious political

The hill, where an alter stands ready, human forces in history rather than Battleship Potemkin was as much The procession carries its pay; as individuals. His later Blas took appreciated as a theorist than he an

is now, in

In these carly and rather feared on it was admired, and in and the ions of the faith,

The great figures out of of them, as clemensein is deal. The most dis-

days of film criticism. many countries it was not allowed peasants bow to the earth in prayer. and made super-men

Soon, Elsenstein bulids

unrealistic 05 a character from up his

of Englishman, and, if ciplined of the creative experimental rhythm from these pictures.

tragedy or, closer minds is now lost to Shakespeareon The

the cinema.

and Welsh friends will permit the ៥ character from Milton's movement forward of the feet is still,

Of the two other great artists of lapse, that is saying a very

great matched with the bowing forward Paradtee Lost.

this Aral half-century of our new

ew deal. of the men and women, who touch These Alms were superbly do art. WHAT. was the secret of this new the earth with their dusty foreheads. corated and meticulously planned, Chaplin is still

only Chaplin and Grinth,

He might be defined as a younger working, while edition of Lord Halifax, another Scores from Griffith the importance of A paralysed cripple pushes forward with fine, melodie musical

Griffith has for long been in retire-on-career ambassador who chorm- of by the Russian composer, Prokofjev. ment.

aver The way is now open for ed and won

the riveting his audience's attention by on wooden sledge, the effort

American supervising the rhythmic structure

movement timing with the Take, for example. the coronation the next stage in the development people.

Hla success with them is ilkely to of his series of moving pictures as general rhythm.

scene from the first part of Ivan of the film founded upon the basic the Terrible.

great, with discoveries of Grinth and Elsen- be equally rigidly

beneficial a composer controls the rhythmic structure of his series of

Long shots of the whole cathedral stein. From which country, I won- consequences for Britain and musical chords. Not only did he

12: alternated with remarkable der, will this future genius emerge? | world. watch the moving composition cach single picture with the cyo of

fim? Elsenstein had learned

his

The Climax

THIS is bullt up to a climax of of inter-cutting, until the peasants

an architect, he knitted those ple- frenzied cry for rain is reinforect turés together with the precision of by n gale of wind which sends an engineer,

scarves and banners blowing, and Ifts the vesisments of the priests.

But the solitary cloud in the sky lie

Eisenstein made two other silent

of the

Polygamy in 50 years-so he says

Women will have become

the

films of distinction: The General passes, the wind dies as suddenly WOULD you-as a woman Line,

a guy and brilliant film showing Le

as it came, and the peasants turn-over

2 aggressive that 25 percent of by CHAPMAN PINCHER rather have a part share prostrate in the dust, all energy Russian land from the primitive, drained from them. Nothing is left in a first-class

all men will be too scared to get. traditional forms

of farming to but the panting cattle, with saliva percent interest in Mr Average? run-of-the-mill sort," be predicts.

man or a 100 males to a whole interest in

the married. modern, mechanised methods, and dropping from their mouths like

Statistics show that in ono out October

the most amblilous of all

The answer is quite clear to one He states that American women of every four of last year's American October was commals- the grease from the candles in the of those social scientists whose job are already agitating for polygamy marriages the husband his works.

lanterns of the priests.

14 sioned to celebrate the tenth annt-

now is to study the matrimonial prob- to be legalised The other sequence follows fmlems of the future-Dr James Ben- says, who are "more resistant."

It's the men, ho henpecked.

"About

25 porcent. versary of the 1017 revolution. It

of all marriages in 1947 aro covered the bitter events during the mediately afterwards. It is the now-der, Director of the U. S. Institute Dr Bender thinks that by 2.000 mated to be of the matriarchal establishment and overthrow of the ***

famous scene of the cream-separa- for Human Relations. *tor.

A.D. the man shortage-sovero The community represented in

pe" in how Dr Bonder puts it. type, Kerensky government.

He adds that eventually the wife the film is

Dr Bender has slated his viewn enough in itself—will made up of very un- In both these films,

will "wear the pants" in 60 percent. R$ in developed peasants, who hate the precisely in the scientific journal, Potemkin, Elsenstein showed what idea of turning from the old and Science Illustrated.

of all marriages. the editing principle could do for wasteful methods of farming to He is cure that within · 50 years

Think it over, gentlemen. the art of the film when it is used more modern methods,

ԵՐ The Alm, the marriage laws will have to with brillanco and Imagination. Indeed, was made to show the ad-changed to allow and perhaps to This principle came, at the time, vantage

scientific encourage multi-wife marriages. to be called by the French word agriculture, which It does with "Discerning women will prefer 'montage.' It is not only the art great, good humour.

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