Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #16 1928

Original vintage Constructivist film magazine Soviet Screen Sovetsky Ekran #16 April 1928. It was a weekly magazine on recent developments in film in the USSR. The front cover features a still from the film Prisoners of the sea (Plenniki morya), a Soviet silent black-and-white film, filmed in 1928 by director Mikhail Verner; the back cover features stills from the 1928 film the Pencil (Karandash) produced by Mospoligraf and directed by Boris Tseytlin. The issue includes various advertisements; the articles about the creation of The Kulturfilm (literally "culture film"), Soviet films that were created to enlighten and educate the public, accompanied by a caricature by S. Saltzer; children's films and animation; the crisis of American industry, with a photograph of President Calvin Coolidge; the film Lace (Kruzheva), a 1928 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Yutkevich; photographs of scenes from various films such as Spione, a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and Rasputin, the Holy Sinner (German: Rasputins Liebesabenteuer), a 1928 German silent film directed by Martin Berger; film Nochnaja smena, directed by Vladimir Shmidtgof.  Published by publishing house Teakinopechat, 15 pages. Fair condition, tears on the spine, browning, stain.