| A lesson in Marxist economic ideology: Vertov shows the industrial process starting with its base. |
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| Workers: Workers in Vertov's film are both productive and happy, in line both with Marxist ideology and the propaganda of the USSR's self-presentation. |
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Assembly-line worker making cigarette packs. Her actions are accelerated in the film editing, but to emphasize productivity rather than either rigors or repetitiveness of the work.
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Bourgeois values (like personal beauty) are contrasted with productive work, including filmmaking.
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| Leisure time: The film undertakes to instruct the proletariat on how and how not to use leisure time. Shots are interplayed contrasting frivolous activities with wholesome recreation. |
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Reducing alcohol consumption was a goal of early Soviet society. The shooter practices her marksmanship against symbols of Fascism as well as bottles of alcohol.
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"Wall newspapers" at the workplace: an early means for educating the proletariat.
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For Vertov, film could play an essential role in the process of education.
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In leisure as in work, healthy proletarian activities are contrasted with vanity.
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The cameraman leaves the pub and enters the Lenin Workers' Club.
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