Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #34 1928

Original vintage Constructivist film magazine Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #34 August 1929. It was a weekly magazine on recent developments in film in the USSR. The front cover features a photograph of the actor G. Michurin in the film My Son, produced by Sovkino; the back cover features photographs from Chuvashkino Production, directed by Maksimov-Koshkinsky, starring Tanya Yuyu, Kapralov and Podvalny. The issue includes the articles about the cinema-quality crisis; the arrival of the Kabuki theater in Moscow; the colonization of cinema; Japanese cinema and theatrical tradition; the production of sound films using the Movietone sound system, an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture; the film Joy and Druzhok, a Soviet film directed in 1928 by Vladimir Petrov and Mirian Khukhunashvili; various advertisements. Published by publishing house Teakinopechat, 15 pages. Poor condition, spine and some pages are loose, tears on the spine and some pages, browning.