New Spectator Novyi Zritel #1 1927

Soviet magazine New Spectator Novyi Zritel, issue number 1, 1927. A theatre, film, stage and circus magazine, first published in Moscow. It contains reviews of what's on in the theatres and cinemas of Moscow. Great constructivist photo-montage cover with a film poster for a movie "Sixth Continent" by Dziga Vertov (David/Denis Kaufman; 1896-1954), a Russian Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. Fair condition, missing the first page, bumps on corners, split on the bottom of the spine, soiling on covers, two small tears on the front and one on the back cover, 32 pages.