Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #39 1928

Original vintage Constructivist film magazine Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #39 September 1928. It was a weekly magazine on recent developments in film in the USSR. The back and front cover feature stills from the film The White Eagle (Belyy oryol), a 1928 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Vasili Kachalov, Anna Sten and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Set in Tsarist times, it is based on the play The Governor by Leonid Andreyev. The issue includes articles about Mezhrabpomfilm, was a German-Russian film studio, formerly Mezhrabpom-Rus, from 1922-1936; portrait of V. Meyerhold; pre-revolutionary cinematography; portrait of Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union; production of The White Eagle film with photographs by A. Orlova; using hypnosis in filming. Published by publishing house Teakinopechat, 15 pages. Poor condition, cover and some pages are loose, tears, browning.