A Sixth Part of the World
About A Sixth Part of the World
Eight teams of kinoks filmed peoples and work from the Arctic to the steppes. Vertov cut the trips into one travelogue of Soviet land and goods. The intertitles keep a repeated address, the "word-radio-theme," telling the viewers they are seeing one sixth of the world and calling them into one socialist society.
Cast & crew
More about A Sixth Part of the World
Dziga Vertov directed. Mikhail Kaufman, Ivan Belyakov, Samuil Bendersky, and Yakov Tolchan photographed the trips. Yelizaveta Svilova edited. Kultkino, inside Sovkino, produced it. Wikidata gives 75 minutes. The Russian title is Shestaya chast mira. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Vertov sent the kinoks out and cut their reels in Moscow with Svilova.
Look
Kaufman, Belyakov, Bendersky, and Tolchan shot the Arctic, the steppes, and the work sites the titles then address.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Vertov said the repeating intertitles anticipate a sound film.
- The footage is a mix of new trips and found material, not one camera on one route.
- The next feature in this line is The Eleventh Year (1928), then Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
- Svilova cut the eight teams into the single reel sequence.
Scenes
- The titles address the people on screen as if by radio.
- Shots of remote work are cut against the goods those places send.
Influenced
- The Eleventh Year (1928)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
