OLD AND NEW
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Jump to navigationJump to searchOLD AND NEW (vt THE GENERAL LINE). Sergei Eisenstein, dir. USSR: Sovkino, 1929.
Classic silent, with two famous sequences relevant here: heroine Marfa Lapinka's "first encounter with a mechanized cream separator . . . and the final 'dance' of the tractors" (quoting David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film [1981]: 182).
