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Experience a masterclass in the cinematic form of Soviet montage through the infamous 'Cream Separator' sequence from Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov's Old and New aka The General Line (1929). Now available in a glorious high definition transfer and streaming at flickeralley.com: https://flickeralley.vhx.tv/products/...

"...OLD AND NEW was Eisenstein's experiment in 'cinematic ecstasy.' The Cream Separator sequence was conceived as this kind of enthralling spectacle. The triumph of the machine, reflected on the faces of the peasants, is deliberately made to resemble an erotic or religious rapture - albeit in the secular and seemingly asexual setting of the Soviet milk co-op."
--"Montage Uprising: A Collection of Soviet Silents" by Maxim Pozdorovkin & Ana Olenina