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Robbin Coons, Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, May 1, 1933.
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S.M. Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, G. W. Alexandroff
in Hollywood
(...) Querschnitt, Berlin, Deutschland, Jan. 1931
& CRUSADER. (...) About to view a film he sponsored,
Serge Eisenstein‘s „Thunder Over Mexico.“ With Upton Sinclair
is Mrs. Sinclair und Luis Lupian, Mexican consul general.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, June 3, 1933
& Stadium Theatre, exterior by day, marquee Thunder
Over Mexico And Social RegisteR, Salt Lake City, March 1, 1934, Utah State Historical Society
„He spared no film footage“
Editorial content. „HOLLYWOOD
SIGHTS and SOUNDS
By ROBBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD – Regarded as the first significant silent
feature since Charles Chaplin‘s City Lights, the latest
work of the Russian director, Sergei Eisenstein, is being
prepared here for release within the next five or six
weeks.
The picture isn‘t strictly ,silent,‘ any more than Chaplin‘s
was – for Hugo Riesenfeld came from New York
to compose a musical score – but there is no dialog.
Eisenstein, a sort of high priest to many who
regard the cinema as an art, came to Hollywood two years
ago to direct the film version of An American Tragedy.
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And Then – Mexico
There were difficulties, many of them, and disagreements,
and the maker of Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook
the World departed for Mexico, there to spend 14 months on a film
dealing with the social and cultural life of the country.
Que Viva Mexico, to be released under the title, Thunder Over
Mexico, was the result. The actors are all ,unknowns.‘
That he spared no film footage in the task was apparent
in the enormous volume of celluloid he sent back –
enough for 25 full length features of eight reels each, which
will be its length when Harry Chandlee, the story
editor who practices ,psychological treatment‘ of films,
is through with cutting and assembling it.
Eisenstein and Grischa Alexandrov, his assistant, and
Edouard Tisse, his cameraman, are back in Russia,
having left the picture they made in care of their American
backers.“
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