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Le Train en marche
FRANCE · 1971

Le Train en marche

Chris Marker
Soviet cinema history mobile film production documentary filmmaking agricultural and industrial documentation experimental media technology
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Synopsis

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.

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