Karnaval cvetov (1935) - full transcript
The experimental work consists of several fragments, demonstrating the use of color in film: showing paintings of Soviet art, photography parade on first of May on Red Square in 1934-1935, ...
Gosfilmofond presents
A Carnival of Colors
An Experimental Cine-Revue
with Color and Sound
Director:
Nikolai Ekk
Color cinematographer and
technical supervisor: Fyodor Provorov
Camera assistants:
G. Reysgof, V. Nesterov
Music: Yakov Stollyar
Sound: Dmitri Flyangolts
Mezhrabpomfilm production
Comrade viewers!
During the last two years
at Mezhrabpomfilm,
we have been working
on the experiment of
creating soviet color film.
Today you will see
our first experiments,
our successes and failures.
The Cine-Revue with Color and Sound
"A Carnival of Colors"
is our first
experimental program.
We begin.
Experiment one:
color without movement.
In order to test how
various colors
can work together
on the screen,
we have filmed a number of paintings
made by soviet artists.
Experiment one.
Soviet graphic art
Socialist realism - an art style
of the proletarian revolution era.
Andreyev
"Portrait of V.I. Lenin"
Sokolov
"Lenin in Smolny Palace"
Avilov: "Stalin's Arrival
at the First Cavalry Army"
Gerasimov
"K. Voroshilov"
Meshkov
"Budennyi"
Merkurov
"Frunze"
Ioganson
"Interrogation of the Communists"
Pshenichnikov
"Death of Chapaev"
Nikonov
"Kolchakovschina"
Mendelevitch
"Laughing Red Army Soldier"
Deni
"Red Army Checklist"
Bogorodsky
"In Memory of Lenin"
Gerasimov: "Stalin's Speech at the
16th Congress of the Communist Party"
Modorov
"Magnitogorsk"
Brodsky
"The Shock Worker of Dneprostroy"
Shterenberg
"The Old Days"
Gaponenko
"The Kolkhoz Women Going Out to Work"
Arkhipov
"Girl with Jug"
Drozdov (Vasily Vatagin)
"Gilyak woman with child"
Drozdov (Vasily Yakovlev)
"Signing of the socialist contract"
Dormidontov
"Football"
Kosmin
"Portrait of A.S. Bubnov"
Konchalovsky
"Pushkin"
Rylov
"Winter Road"
Grabar
"Winter"
Yuon
"Landscape in March"
Fedor Antonov
"Love"
Ioganson
"The Soviet Court"
Yanovskaya
"Demyan Bedny"
Mashkov
"Moscow Food"
Deineka
"Without Work in Berlin"
Frikh-Har
"Pugachev"
Kepinov
"Sophia Perovskaya"
Lavrov
"Clara Zetkin"
Toidze
"Towards the World October"
Under Lenin's banner -
towards the world October!
Sherwood
"The Guard"
Experiment two:
color with movement.
Experiment two.
Long live the 1st of May, the parade
of the world proletariat forces!
Workers of the world, unite!
Long live the great undefeated banner
of Marx, Engels and Lenin!
Long live the Communist Party!
Hooray!
Long live the 1st of May!
1st of May
May
The first of May
USSR
Experiment three.
Next item of the programme,
combatant chastushkas sung by the wives
of Red Army soldiers.
There're eight pines in our forest
And the ninth one is a spruce.
There is a funny story
Which to you we'll introduce.
Let's stop sitting in the yard,
When the folks are working hard.
Tell ?em how it happened, really.
Start your chattering then, will you?
We were going down the road
Suddenly, alarm goes off!
Lights go out, sirens wailing,
We look for a place to stay in.
Into the warehouse we went,
Smelled a stinking and foul scent,
It was an attack, we thought,
But it was vegetables rot!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Didn't run off very far,
When before us came a car.
Tires screeched, the doors opened,
We were real scared that moment!
Doctor's looking very mad
Saying that we should be dead.
On and on the story strides,
To the hospital we drive.
- No way, Vera!- Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Then in bandages they wrapped us,
Gave us pills and drops and tablets,
Then they thought we're good to go,
Let us out and sent us home.
We returned and looked around,
Saw our granny crying loud,
Shivering and shaking head
She was really really scared.
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Groaning, moaning, spitting spit,
She said, stammering a bit:
"When the sirens' signal started,
Lights went out, the flat have darkened,
Suddenly, without a cause,
A man bursts in, without a pause
And cries to me right from the enter:
?Gas attack! please, give me shelter!?
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Listening to the silly gran,
To the dining-room we ran.
And we saw the man as such,
In his shoes and on the couch!
Lying there on the bed,
The man told us he was dead.
And after taking a deep breath,
He called it a suspended death!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Night has passed and day has come,
The dead man is still around.
Drinking tea with sugar spoons,
Eating bread with butter too!
?How about you go away?? -
The dead man sits down to shave.
?How about some good manners?? -
He sits down to play the piano!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
No more time for jokes or tricks,
There goes another week.
The dead man sits in our flat,
Getting comfy, getting fat.
What a nuisance, this event
And this annoying lively man!
When he?s technically dead,
He can?t be a tenant of the flat!
- Enough, Vera! - Katya, stop!
Let?s go dancing to the song!
Getting warmer, getting warmer,
The banya in the backyard.
Getting married, getting married,
Vanya, my sweetheart.
Don't get warmer, don't get warmer,
Banya in the backyard.
Don't get married, don't get married,
Vanya, my sweetheart.
Third item!
"Tango"!
A mock dance
of the silhouettes!
Performed by Charlie Chaplin,
Miss Lucy, Pat and Patachon!
Experiment four.
An autumn in the South
Georgia
In 1933 the amount of tangerines
harvested in Georgia
reached a record number
of 100 millions.
Comrade Stalin has assigned a task
for the bolsheviks of Georgia:
to harvest 500 millions of lemons,
oranges and tangerines in 1937.
To do this, 250,000 ha
of fruitful soil,
now covered
with malarial swamps,
will be DRAINED and turned into
a blooming garden...
And soviet Georgia will turn
into soviet Florida...
And tangerines, oranges, lemons,
which used to be a luxury...
will become consumed widely
by the workers of the Soviet Union!
(comrade Beria's speech
at the 17th Congress)
With that, we've completed our
experimental work,
and started the production
of the first fiction film with
sound and color - "Little Nightingale".
We will show this film on the soviet
screens in the nearest future!
The end.
The First Soviet Experimental Cine-Revue
with Color and Sound
"A Carnival of Colors"
has been restored digitally in 2012
from the original color-separated
negatives in Gosfilmofond collection.
The restoration made by:
Nikolay Mayorov and Vladimir Kotovsky
A Carnival of Colors
An Experimental Cine-Revue
with Color and Sound
Director:
Nikolai Ekk
Color cinematographer and
technical supervisor: Fyodor Provorov
Camera assistants:
G. Reysgof, V. Nesterov
Music: Yakov Stollyar
Sound: Dmitri Flyangolts
Mezhrabpomfilm production
Comrade viewers!
During the last two years
at Mezhrabpomfilm,
we have been working
on the experiment of
creating soviet color film.
Today you will see
our first experiments,
our successes and failures.
The Cine-Revue with Color and Sound
"A Carnival of Colors"
is our first
experimental program.
We begin.
Experiment one:
color without movement.
In order to test how
various colors
can work together
on the screen,
we have filmed a number of paintings
made by soviet artists.
Experiment one.
Soviet graphic art
Socialist realism - an art style
of the proletarian revolution era.
Andreyev
"Portrait of V.I. Lenin"
Sokolov
"Lenin in Smolny Palace"
Avilov: "Stalin's Arrival
at the First Cavalry Army"
Gerasimov
"K. Voroshilov"
Meshkov
"Budennyi"
Merkurov
"Frunze"
Ioganson
"Interrogation of the Communists"
Pshenichnikov
"Death of Chapaev"
Nikonov
"Kolchakovschina"
Mendelevitch
"Laughing Red Army Soldier"
Deni
"Red Army Checklist"
Bogorodsky
"In Memory of Lenin"
Gerasimov: "Stalin's Speech at the
16th Congress of the Communist Party"
Modorov
"Magnitogorsk"
Brodsky
"The Shock Worker of Dneprostroy"
Shterenberg
"The Old Days"
Gaponenko
"The Kolkhoz Women Going Out to Work"
Arkhipov
"Girl with Jug"
Drozdov (Vasily Vatagin)
"Gilyak woman with child"
Drozdov (Vasily Yakovlev)
"Signing of the socialist contract"
Dormidontov
"Football"
Kosmin
"Portrait of A.S. Bubnov"
Konchalovsky
"Pushkin"
Rylov
"Winter Road"
Grabar
"Winter"
Yuon
"Landscape in March"
Fedor Antonov
"Love"
Ioganson
"The Soviet Court"
Yanovskaya
"Demyan Bedny"
Mashkov
"Moscow Food"
Deineka
"Without Work in Berlin"
Frikh-Har
"Pugachev"
Kepinov
"Sophia Perovskaya"
Lavrov
"Clara Zetkin"
Toidze
"Towards the World October"
Under Lenin's banner -
towards the world October!
Sherwood
"The Guard"
Experiment two:
color with movement.
Experiment two.
Long live the 1st of May, the parade
of the world proletariat forces!
Workers of the world, unite!
Long live the great undefeated banner
of Marx, Engels and Lenin!
Long live the Communist Party!
Hooray!
Long live the 1st of May!
1st of May
May
The first of May
USSR
Experiment three.
Next item of the programme,
combatant chastushkas sung by the wives
of Red Army soldiers.
There're eight pines in our forest
And the ninth one is a spruce.
There is a funny story
Which to you we'll introduce.
Let's stop sitting in the yard,
When the folks are working hard.
Tell ?em how it happened, really.
Start your chattering then, will you?
We were going down the road
Suddenly, alarm goes off!
Lights go out, sirens wailing,
We look for a place to stay in.
Into the warehouse we went,
Smelled a stinking and foul scent,
It was an attack, we thought,
But it was vegetables rot!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Didn't run off very far,
When before us came a car.
Tires screeched, the doors opened,
We were real scared that moment!
Doctor's looking very mad
Saying that we should be dead.
On and on the story strides,
To the hospital we drive.
- No way, Vera!- Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Then in bandages they wrapped us,
Gave us pills and drops and tablets,
Then they thought we're good to go,
Let us out and sent us home.
We returned and looked around,
Saw our granny crying loud,
Shivering and shaking head
She was really really scared.
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Groaning, moaning, spitting spit,
She said, stammering a bit:
"When the sirens' signal started,
Lights went out, the flat have darkened,
Suddenly, without a cause,
A man bursts in, without a pause
And cries to me right from the enter:
?Gas attack! please, give me shelter!?
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Listening to the silly gran,
To the dining-room we ran.
And we saw the man as such,
In his shoes and on the couch!
Lying there on the bed,
The man told us he was dead.
And after taking a deep breath,
He called it a suspended death!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
Night has passed and day has come,
The dead man is still around.
Drinking tea with sugar spoons,
Eating bread with butter too!
?How about you go away?? -
The dead man sits down to shave.
?How about some good manners?? -
He sits down to play the piano!
- No way, Vera! - Katya, really!
Keep on chattering then, will you?
No more time for jokes or tricks,
There goes another week.
The dead man sits in our flat,
Getting comfy, getting fat.
What a nuisance, this event
And this annoying lively man!
When he?s technically dead,
He can?t be a tenant of the flat!
- Enough, Vera! - Katya, stop!
Let?s go dancing to the song!
Getting warmer, getting warmer,
The banya in the backyard.
Getting married, getting married,
Vanya, my sweetheart.
Don't get warmer, don't get warmer,
Banya in the backyard.
Don't get married, don't get married,
Vanya, my sweetheart.
Third item!
"Tango"!
A mock dance
of the silhouettes!
Performed by Charlie Chaplin,
Miss Lucy, Pat and Patachon!
Experiment four.
An autumn in the South
Georgia
In 1933 the amount of tangerines
harvested in Georgia
reached a record number
of 100 millions.
Comrade Stalin has assigned a task
for the bolsheviks of Georgia:
to harvest 500 millions of lemons,
oranges and tangerines in 1937.
To do this, 250,000 ha
of fruitful soil,
now covered
with malarial swamps,
will be DRAINED and turned into
a blooming garden...
And soviet Georgia will turn
into soviet Florida...
And tangerines, oranges, lemons,
which used to be a luxury...
will become consumed widely
by the workers of the Soviet Union!
(comrade Beria's speech
at the 17th Congress)
With that, we've completed our
experimental work,
and started the production
of the first fiction film with
sound and color - "Little Nightingale".
We will show this film on the soviet
screens in the nearest future!
The end.
The First Soviet Experimental Cine-Revue
with Color and Sound
"A Carnival of Colors"
has been restored digitally in 2012
from the original color-separated
negatives in Gosfilmofond collection.
The restoration made by:
Nikolay Mayorov and Vladimir Kotovsky