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View full company info for Amkino Corporation. 1. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary, Music. 8.3. Rate this. 96 Metascore. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova. Votes: 27,191.
Amkino Corporation, founded in 1927, and headed by Viktor Smirnov , was a New York City-based company. It was the official distributor of Soviet films in the United States through February 1940. In the mid-1930s, Napoli became an employee of Amkino Corporation, at that time the US distributor
In 1940, following the collapse of Amkino Corporation, Napoli founded, with Rosa Madell, Artkino Pictures to continue Amkino"s mission. During World World War II, with the Soviet Union as part of the Allies, Napoli saw the firm"s imports being accepted by a far wider number of cinemas that during the 1930s, with its Red Scare.
Posts about Amkino Corporation written by moviebloke. (Soviet Union / Russia 1935) It might seem strange to see a 1930s Soviet slapstick big band musical ostensibly made just for fun, but that’s what Grigoriy Aleksandrov’s Vesyole Rebyata [Весёлые ребята] [Moscow Laughs] [Jolly Fellows] is.
Artkino Pictures, Inc. was a distributor of Soviet films in the United States following the liquidation of Amkino Corporation. The company was formed by Nicola Napoli and film broker Rosa Madell in 1940. Subjects. Soviet Union. Acquisitions Information. Acquired: 2009. Preferred citation.
Three Songs About Lenin ( Russian: Три песни о Ленине) is a 1934 documentary sound film by Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov. It is based on three admiring songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. It is made up of 3 episodes and is 57 minutes long.
Amkino Corporation of New York, 1955. Dates. 1955. Conditions Governing Access. Open for public research. Conditions Governing Use. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
