English Russia has posted some great footage of a Stalinist video showing the wonderful architectural rewards that the populace was about to reap. I was particularly impressed by what must have been a rather impressive technique for the time of putting the modeled or rendered structures into live video of the actual construction sites. I am not sure that I’m too won over by the nature of the designs themselves, suffice it to say they are certainly ‘grand’, in scale and scope scope. I’m not an expert on Soviet architectural achievement, but i don’t think I recognized any of the projects as ones that were actually constructed.
It’s surprising how Fritz Lang-esque this production is, as opposed to Stalin’s earlier productions (via Pudovkin). I love the last scene of the tower with Lenin atop. The long shot, followed by display of aerial power, is similar to Lang’s Kriemheld’s Revenge, where the hoards charge endlessly over the horizon… Nice pick!