ABSTRACT
The PatM and Gaumont newsreels and the newsreels of the Skobelev Committee74 were replaced after the October Revolution by CineWeek (Kinonedelya) produced by VFKO.
Cine-Week could be distinguished from previous newsreels really only by the fact that its intertitles were 'Soviet'. The content stayed the same as before: the same parades, the same funerals. It was at exactly this time that I began work in cinema, still ill-acquainted with its techniques. Despite its youth, cinema had by that time already established firm patterns and you were forbidden to work outside them. My first experiments in collecting incidental frames into more or less 'harmonious' montage groups date from this period.
