First Pictures Out of Russia in Two Years -- July 12, 2023

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Fox released "Red Russia Revealed," a two-reeler using footage shot in the USSR. "The Issues of a Military Despotism." "A Panic Stricken Country Under Red Rule." Blood drips from the hand that holds cards with photos of Lenin, Trotsky and "Kalenin" (Mikhail Kalinin). "Soldiers Forcing Priests at the Points of Bayonets to Search Gravel for Gold." "150,000,000 People Fighting the Wolf of Famine." "The Iron Heel Crushing a Nation." I wonder if the producers were for or against.

Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923

Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923

Look at the tongue on that wolf.

October: Ten Days That Shook the World -- November 7, 2017

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  I know that today is November, but in Russia, where they were still using the Julian calendar, it was 25-October-1917.  John Reed, an American journalist with radical tendencies was there.  After he returned to America and fought the government to get the papers he had brought with him, he wrote a book that he called Ten Days That Shook the World.  The book was a great success.  Vladimir I Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, read the book and liked it.  He wrote an introduction for later editions.

Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein made a movie called October to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the revolution.  When the film was recut and release internationally, it was  titled October: Ten Days That Shook the World.  The film took little from the book except the title.

I saw the film years ago and fouond it exciting, especially the storming of the Winter Palace.