Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #40 1927

Original vintage Constructivist film magazine Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #40 October 1927. It was a weekly magazine on recent developments in film in the USSR. The cover features a still from the movie October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir), a 1927 Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, produced by Sovkino. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event; the back cover features a still from the film Trial mobilization (Probnaja mobilizacija), director Alexander Levshin. The issue features a caricature of operator Mikhailov by the artist Yakov Rivosh; articles about the film Breakaway directed by Yuri Tarich based on V. Kirshon's play "Konstantin Terekhin"; portraits of sisters Lillian Gish, an American actress, director, and screenwriter and Dorothy Gish, an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era; illustrations by Yuri Pimenov and V Kozlinsky. Published by publishing house Teakinopechat, 15 pages. Fair condition, some pages are loose, tears on the spine and cover, browning, pencil marks.