First Sentence

"FIRST published in 1928 in the introduction to the German edition of his book on film technique, this proclamation of the Soviet film director Vsevolod Pudovkin expresses an outlook on the nature of the cinema that still underlies most critical, historical, and theoretical considerations of cinema and films, despite the relative loss of prestige of the particular school of filmmaking, Soviet montage cinema, that Pudovkin wished to promote."