Featured Video: Lyrical Sequence from Battleship Potemkin Cue: "Like a White-Feathered Flock" (10:04)
This Web cut, despite its low quality imagery, still manages to convey some of the lyrical mood of the original film, with Eduard Tisse's masterful cinematography and the enforced cooperation of every small boat owner on the Odessa waterfront, recruited to make a smashing maritime spectacle for the world's cinema audiences. You can see why the film was such a sensation, exciting Hollywood mogul and fascist propagandist alike. Douglas Fairbanks, at the time America's greatest film star, was among the strongest proponents of Eisenstein and Tisse's montage technique. It was generally conceded that Potemkin the film had brought the art of filmmaking to an entirely new level.
Our cut is taken from the 1976 Soviet restoration and uses a different (and inferior) musical score form Meisel's original, which is featured in the Kino DVD restoration of 2007. Meisel's music (recorded in digital stereo) appreciably improves the viewing experience.