Lev Kuleshov - Proekt inzhenera Prayta AKA The Project of Engine

This was Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut. This work is extremely important not only for Russian cinema; it became a landmark in the history of the world’s cinematograph. For the first time a specific method of montage had been used in this film, which came to be known later as “Soviet montage”. Despite the fact that Kuleshov’s films had preceded many discoveries of Vertov and Eisenstein, his works are little known outside Russia. Among his students were Vsevolod Pudovkin and Boris Barnet. In the introduction to Kuleshov’s book The Art of Cinema (1928), his former students wrote: “It was on his shoulders that we crossed into the open sea. We make films – Kuleshov made cinematography…” Cast: Boris Kuleshov, Yelena Komarova, Ernest Kul’ganek, Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (1899 – 1970) was a Soviet filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school (the Moscow Film School). Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory — developing his theories of editing before those of Sergei Eisenstein (briefly a student of Kuleshov) and Vsevolod Pudovkin. For Kuleshov, the essence of the cinema was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot with another. To illustrate this principle, he created what has come to be known as the Kuleshov Experiment. In this now-famous editing exercise, shots of an actor were intercut with various meaningful images (a casket, a bowl of soup, and so on) in order to show how editing changes viewers' interpretations of images. In addition to his theoretical work, Kuleshov was an active director of feature-length films till 1943. Since 1943 Kuleshov was serving as the academic rector of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. General Complete name : Proekt inzhenera Prayta.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 421 MiB Duration : 30mn 27s Overall bit rate : 1 934 Kbps Writing application : FairUse Wizard - http://fairusewizard.com Writing library : The best and REALLY easy backup tool Video #0 ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : AdvancedSimple@L5 Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (MPEG) Muxing mode : Packed bitstream Codec ID : XVID Codec ID/Hint : XviD Duration : 30mn 27s Bit rate : 1 733 Kbps Width : 688 pixels Height : 512 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.197 Stream size : 377 MiB (90%) Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04) Audio #1 ID : 1 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Codec ID : 2000 Duration : 30mn 27s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Stream size : 41.8 MiB (10%) Alignment : Split accross interleaves Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame) Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009522/ Russian Intertitles; English, French, Spanisn, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian subpack Lev Kuleshov - Proekt inzhenera Prayta AKA The Project of Engineer Prite (1918) My rip of the Ruscico DVD

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klabru (2011-08-12)

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