ABSTRACT
It will then be possible to achieve another of the aims correctly sensed but incorrectly justified by Petrov-Bytov. We must draw our artists, scriptwriters and directors out of the narrow walls of
the studios and out of the aesthetic surroundings of reciprocal evaluations of taste. We must saturate our masters [of cinema] with magnificent and fullblooded impressions of the turbulent and vital construction that is unfolding beyond the walls of the film studios, in the industrial districts, in the nerve-centres of the country's energy supply, in the giant grain farms, in the flourishing remoter areas. We must bring our directors face to face with their audience in the factories, in the colleges and in the countryside. It is necessary for our film-making cadres to feel that they are participating in the great industrial march of the working class so that, seized with the pathos of the gigantic Five Year Plan, they will create works, each in his own way, according to his means and his own degree of complexity and mastery, but each with the identical purpose of realising the tasks of the socialist offensive.
