Soviet Montage: Crash Course Film History #8

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Russia went and had a revolution in 1917 and cinema was a big part of its aftermath. Even though film stock was hard to come by, we saw the first film school started, and the study of film became hugely important. Russian filmmakers started trying to understand the power of the cut itself, thus developing a theory of filmmaking based solely around the juxtaposition of images: Soviet Montage. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, Craig talks us through some of the filmic things going on in post-revolution era Russia.
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Movies Discussed in this episode:
Battleship Potempkin: 1925 - Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Man with a Movie Camera: 1929 - Dir. Dziga Vertov
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 2009 - Dir. David Yates
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Psycho: 1960 - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 1966 - Dir. Sergio Leone
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Youth of Maxim: 1935 - Dir. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
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@Eric_Pham 7 жыл бұрын

[Russian accent] In Soviet Russia you rob bank In Capitalist America bank robs you

@janvalis4954 5 жыл бұрын

you rob a bank and find out it is broke* then you are beaten in the woods by police and your kids cant study further then elementary school, then you are shot when you are trying to escape country*

@kafkafication3449 4 жыл бұрын

@@janvalis4954 *than

@janvalis4954 4 жыл бұрын

@@kafkafication3449 eeeeh...... no?

@janvalis4954 4 жыл бұрын

@@kafkafication3449 Oh I did not see this one between all those "thens". You are right, sorry :-)

@kafkafication3449 4 жыл бұрын

@@janvalis4954 ehh, I was kinda being a smartass anyway.

@DecayingReverie 7 жыл бұрын

The montage at the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has to be my favorite montage of all time. With the length of that film, the tension and relief built up in that scene feel like such a satisfying conclusion.

@crashcourse 7 жыл бұрын

There's so many reasons that film is great! - Nick J.

@AnnoyingMoose 5 жыл бұрын

"The Man With The Movie Camera" is a documentary about it's own creation so it's a sort of Film-ception.

@andrijaaaaaa 7 жыл бұрын

Also to mention two great Soviet artists like Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko. Pudovkin, like Eisenstein believed that montage is what makes movie unique, but he believed montage was rather a method of construction than a collision, like Eisenstein believed. Also his editing had both narrative and intellectual power, so he was more popular at that time than Eisenstein (Mother 1926, End of St Petersburg 1927, Storm over Asia 1928..). On the other hand, Dovzhenko was the most inconvenient and most poetic, with stylistic movies, threaded with impressionistic montage and full of lyrical imagery (Zvenigora 1928, Arsenal 1929, Earth 1930).

@crashcourse 7 жыл бұрын

Storm Over Asia was one of the first films I had to watch in film school. A real fantastic film. We sort of agonized about where to include Pudovkin and had to cut somewhere. Not particularly happy about it, but I'm still very proud of this episode :) - Nick J.

@andrijaaaaaa 7 жыл бұрын

Course is amazing! I'm preparing for an entrance exam for a film school so it helps a lot, thank you very much for it :)

@spoojeman82 7 жыл бұрын

I love how I come to get schooled about the history of film and always walk away with a broader general point of view.

@AtomicPeacenik 7 жыл бұрын

This is my new favorite crash course series. Excellent stuff!

@mynameisANG 4 жыл бұрын

@@fleurettemvangulden7883 No.. You must watch Nicole

@anilatarannum 7 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the little comic/sarcastic 'breaks' that Craig puts in between the courses, like the one at 6:38 XD Especially the face he makes after.

@damesfordays892 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for being a saint to film students who have an exam tomorrow everywhere

@larsiparsii 7 жыл бұрын

Love how you added "dank memes" to the list at 1:06! 😂

@Bootrick33 7 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this.

@Creuilcreuil 7 жыл бұрын

you only found the obvious one

@Bootrick33 7 жыл бұрын

Creuilcreuil _ Where are the less obvious

@taylorconroy4720 7 жыл бұрын

Top kek, non normie

@DaniTheDeer 7 жыл бұрын

All memes are dank, but some memes are more dank than others.

@nwu655 7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Stalin Yes

@IGameChangerI 7 жыл бұрын

You ruined communism.

@cdw2468 7 жыл бұрын

Hey Joe

@only20frickinletters 7 жыл бұрын

IGameChangerI He did nothing wrong, Khrushchev lied.

@jbleins911 7 жыл бұрын

the only thing he did wrong was dying too soon 😢

@johncharlton199 7 жыл бұрын

*Seize the Memes of production!*

@peter-peterpumpkineater4982 5 жыл бұрын

Dammit!

@Bootrick33 7 жыл бұрын

The way y'll cut out all of the breaths provides beautiful pacing for this crash course.

@channelmin3cr4ft 7 жыл бұрын

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend; Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." -Clint Eastwood

@jmiquelmb 7 жыл бұрын

The Wise Guy Had to research the ending scene when he mentioned it. So good

@darkmage07070777 7 жыл бұрын

Favorite line of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly": "If you're gonna shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"

@LivEandInspirE4EveR 6 жыл бұрын

Dear Crash Course, Thank you so much for your film history lessons! I'm currently a film student and sad I didn't find you guys sooner! Keep up the good work! :D

@user-xq5og9lt8p 6 жыл бұрын

Хорошее видео, товарищ.

@Sinfulgaiden 7 жыл бұрын

A very insightful overview, well done. I'm enjoying this series.

@HermanTG 7 жыл бұрын

I look forward to these every week! :)

@nomatophobia 4 жыл бұрын

3:35 the fact that you added nardole makes me so happy

@xThePinkApple 7 жыл бұрын

this series just fills me with so much joy

@poppop-oj6by 7 жыл бұрын

Great vid again! keep em comming!

@Felixkeeg 7 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I read soviet, I press like

@DasGreenCow 7 жыл бұрын

Favorite episode so far.

@josetamayo8743 7 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. I need more episodes.

@EnhancedNightmare 7 жыл бұрын

the scene on the stairs in battleship Potemkin is Very powerful, especially the cuts between the horror of the people and kossack boots on the ground.

@Joshlul 7 жыл бұрын

Just realized that Takeshi Kitano's films (that he acts in) are nearly 100% him being blank faced and taking advantage of the Kuleshov effect to great success, what great films.

@dpsmyface3868 7 жыл бұрын

I really like this series as it shows the influences people draw from each other. The baby rolling down the steps was used in the movie the untouchables as well but with inverted protaganists and antagonists. (the state and the scrappy rebels/mafia)

@margaretteragram9235 7 жыл бұрын

I've been meaning to say since the first ep: this series has the best iteration of the crash course theme yet imo! :)

@Gwynncore 6 жыл бұрын

Please do a series on Music History! Also this series rocks too!!

@crtshells3564 5 жыл бұрын

I lov learning about movies

@natalieely8555 7 жыл бұрын

I came when I saw the TARDIS.

@doctorwhoproductions834 7 жыл бұрын

Natalie Ely me too

@cjsmalley5506 7 жыл бұрын

I was just wondering what the TARDIS and Doctor had to do with Soviets and film history; I'm not even all that interested in film history.

@mariacarrillo377 4 жыл бұрын

this was very helpful, thank you. do you have other examples of modern scenes that use montage technique?

@jr52990 7 жыл бұрын

Digg'n the Rey and Kylo battle set in the background. Good job set makers. :)

@julia19992 5 жыл бұрын

learnt more from this video than an entire semester

@AnthonyNguyenlolz 6 жыл бұрын

The remixes are great.

@rtaraquin 7 жыл бұрын

Chyna cameo!

@crashcourse 7 жыл бұрын

SOMEBODY NOTICED :D :D :D - Nick J.

@SidV101 7 жыл бұрын

CrashCourse A+ desirable woman selection, CC and Craig

@deatheater3716 6 жыл бұрын

I just started watching wheezy's blog and had no idea what chyna looked like before. Now that I'm rewatching this, it makes me so happy to see her cameo in this. Lol

@Nothing_serious 7 жыл бұрын

Will this series include animated films?

@fangirlfortheages5940 7 жыл бұрын

The intro for this series is so badass

@spanksthx 7 жыл бұрын

Love this series

@Teo117 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@tomasvielle2238 6 жыл бұрын

Unexpected Dumbledore's death scene got me right in the feels...

@isaacs8783 7 жыл бұрын

1:51 that reminds me I need to buy some catnip

@frankr.ashbyjr.2006 7 жыл бұрын

Love the show...but what has the eagle ever done to you to garner such wrath at the beginning of every episode...btw I love the running gag!

@megasonicgeo 7 жыл бұрын

That title is a hell of a way to pull me in

@MasterGeekMX 7 жыл бұрын

I am so nerd that I enjoyed more the episodes about technical stuff of movies and film workings

@zarifhasan4191 7 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but what revolution wasn't violent?

@cormac705 7 жыл бұрын

the Velvet Revolution.

@Lady_in_Yearning 7 жыл бұрын

The sexual revolution. Unless you're kinky.

@thedarkwolf2525 7 жыл бұрын

Zarif Hasan Tunisia Egypt Bahrain Belarus Georgia Moldova There's quite a few that happened in history and I couldn't name all of them. But back to the main point - fuck communism.

@Fenrir1 7 жыл бұрын

The velvet revolution

@thedarkwolf2525 7 жыл бұрын

Ankyri "The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, КПСС, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza), abbreviated in English as CPSU,[a] was the founding and ruling political party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union). The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990" - Wikipedia. It's literally in the name. Hell, they practically weren't hiding it. It goes either way.

@db11111 7 жыл бұрын

Potempkin! I remember watching that.

@montetiger866 7 жыл бұрын

Dumbledore's death gets me everytime also first time I noticed wand sound effects

@geoffreywinn4031 7 жыл бұрын

Educational!

@silvesby 7 жыл бұрын

I came when I heard Soviet

@bryanlinsmeyer3521 7 жыл бұрын

Stalin will rise again

@SovietImperator 7 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ineedsleep9019 7 жыл бұрын

Silvicat Green as did I, fellow comrade.

@ktkatte6791 7 жыл бұрын

i jizzed when i saw lenin

@MrAwawe 7 жыл бұрын

I really hope you guys are trolls...

@Mikno21 7 жыл бұрын

Don't ask an italian what Battleship Potemkin is

@merrittanimation7721 6 жыл бұрын

Mikno21 Why not?

@CallMeHeatMiser 6 жыл бұрын

Ok, but Man With the Movie Camera is one of the best films I have ever seen.

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

I get Lenin and the peasants... but what the TARDIS is doing there intrigues me seriously!!

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

RIGHT, when we got to Kuleshov we figured out what the TARDIS has to do with Soviet filmmaking!!

@BothHands1 7 жыл бұрын

He said that the film trick used to make the tardis appear so large on the inside comes from Russian cinematography :)

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

That's what I meant!

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

Any fellow Whovians who watched this episode?

@GPKlosterman 7 жыл бұрын

Sure. What do you think of Bill in last episodes?

@ChuckDarwin1909 7 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad that it's episode 8 and we still aren't even to The Jazz Singer. Quality series

@user-tg9hk6wc6q 5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you mentioned absolute kino.

@swiftlymurmurs1825 7 жыл бұрын

FYI, the woman on the couch is Craig's wife, Chyna

@eltiostalin3566 7 жыл бұрын

Nice...

@MicahAndersenNeverStopWriting 7 жыл бұрын

Hey we watched The Man With The Movie Camera in my film class! Cool :)

@sarahphillips579 7 жыл бұрын

I came for the Doctor. I stayed for Craig.

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

One question remains: is the film Youth of Maksim an adaptation of Maksim Gorky's autobiography?

@mapadillorex 7 жыл бұрын

Although every future episode of this series might already be planned out and written, I feel like there would a lot of information to give if you did episodes specifically on a director's works. For example, maybe Kubrick and Lynch?

@gloriaa4637 6 жыл бұрын

Matteo Pagano that would be such a cool episode

@nihonium 7 жыл бұрын

1:07 Seize the memes of production

@GuyWithAnAmazingHat 7 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see the TARDIS, I press like.

@dylanrodrigues 7 жыл бұрын

GuyWithAnAmazingHat I see Soviet, I click like.

@JazzyJacksJokeShack 7 жыл бұрын

You again...

@isaacs8783 7 жыл бұрын

GuyWithAnAmazingHat nice hat

@HarryRobins 6 жыл бұрын

I love how they put the current team.

@daniellaruk 7 жыл бұрын

I'm not watching this yet it's 2:45am I need to sleep but why is Doctor Who in this?? Seriously love this channel.

@pnutz_2 7 жыл бұрын

missed an opportunity to link in the great war channel there

@legocity2643 7 жыл бұрын

Oi mate, I came here with the promise of Soviets and montages, so where is the glorious soviet anthem?

@chatnoir1224 7 жыл бұрын

Michael Voss at that time soviet anthems was The Internationale

@saltydiarrhea386 7 жыл бұрын

Dang, I must need to adjust my KZfaq settings, I haven't seen Craig in a long time.

@MargaretHutz 6 жыл бұрын

The other big innovation with the Odessa staircase scene was the artificial lengthening of time. A scene that should have taken a few brief minutes is drawn out much longer with all those cuts back and forth between the rifleman and the peasants.

@unwantedmacguffin5611 5 жыл бұрын

What was that trailer from

@guystudios 6 жыл бұрын

AYYY MY HOMIE THE DOCTOR wasn't expecting to see him in this series but it's a pleasant surprise

@nasser314 7 жыл бұрын

In Soviet Russia you dont watch the movies. The movies watch you !

@binnachtsaktiv9065 7 жыл бұрын

go away

@jacobjancose2804 7 жыл бұрын

João Pedro Nasser normie trash

@ZebrinhahDesrosiers 7 жыл бұрын

João Pedro Nasser desciclopedia vive

@natcordian7913 7 жыл бұрын

Happy little accidents

@VinnyDrugs 5 жыл бұрын

In Soviet Russia they have original jokes.

@MK.5198 7 жыл бұрын

If you want to get more into it with film analysis, I have to recommend Folding Ideas, excellent youtube channel who does lots of film stuff.

@sydneytalks4254 7 жыл бұрын

I saw the TARDIS and got very excited

@avxd7 4 жыл бұрын

you cant just spring dumbledores death on me like that out of nowhere

@ChaelSonnen000 7 жыл бұрын

seize the means of production

@musictrivianut 7 жыл бұрын

I watch few of these Crash Courses and I've seen that eagle take so many hits already that I keep expecting Phil Plait to haul off and whack the Enterprise over on his Astronomy course at some point.

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

Last episode's UFA Kirby scene was a lovely metaphor, right? Now we get Narkompros, a red Kirby in a shapka!!

@CulturePhilter 7 жыл бұрын

I come for the learning, I stay for the wheezy, I make excited noise at my work desk for the TARDIS

@jezzzieful 6 жыл бұрын

I waa looking through old clothes, looking for an old, fashionable summer jacket. I found a few, nice and hipster. But I also found a U.S.S.R Soviet (sports) jacket. Guess what jacket I ultimately went with?

@cybersandwich4951 7 жыл бұрын

3:30 season 10, yay!

@sandradermark8463 7 жыл бұрын

So Craig mentions the iconic Eisensteinian "baby pram racing downstairs" that spawned a trope, but said nothing about (in spite of dedicating screenshots to her) the fembot in Metrópolis, who inspired C-3PO, in last week's UFA episode?

@fh9061 Жыл бұрын

I understand not having a main charcter when you're trying to illustrate the chaos but it's really hard to get a relatable narrative out of it

@nathanielanleitner9947 7 жыл бұрын

Hey Craig and CC Crew, I'm really digging this series and I had a question. You mentioned that, despite recording "real footage" and claiming to show real life, the Soviet documentaries are still an illusion. I was wondering how this related to the modern day vlogger- is their stuff also an illusion?

@crashcourse 7 жыл бұрын

In so far as the images you are seeing are not reality, yes. It's light and sound being digitally captured from a CHOSEN perspective, then compressed, decompressed, edited, and viewed on a device that reinterprets it. I like to think of it as a "Perspective On Reality." That reality can be constructed to varying degrees. What you choose to show, choose to not show, and how you purposefully affect the images captured alter the reality of it. - Nick J.

@nathanielanleitner9947 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the response Nick!

@vlogerhood 7 жыл бұрын

Cutting to images of Chyna also makes me feel desire.

@TylerCWilliams 6 жыл бұрын

It would be nice if Doctor Who did an episode about this.

@Siddharthanviswakarm 4 жыл бұрын

im sorry i got to ask .....whats up with the eagle punching?

@joshuatheminorprofits 7 жыл бұрын

Love this series. But no 'Eagle Punch!'?

@zamundaaa776 7 жыл бұрын

we watched battleship potemkin in school. At least parts of it

@gonzesse1437 7 жыл бұрын

Woah! 2:58 Chyna!!

@HP-vh5jc 7 жыл бұрын

thought bubble trying to sneak dank memes in xD

@WorldWideWong 7 жыл бұрын

AHHH!!!! CHYNA BENZINE AT 2:56!!!!

@barrylibowitz7753 7 жыл бұрын

So once we move to film production there will definitely be an entire episode about film score right? RiGHT?

@jordens1222 6 жыл бұрын

Bra I'm looking at films in a different way now! 😂💯

@gamershawker5558 7 жыл бұрын

"Owa oowa ooooo.. WA WA WA" -Craig 2017

@jerryto803 7 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see TARDIS I click.

@gameworkerty 7 жыл бұрын

For more on this, check out the "Folding Ideas" channel's video The Kuleshov Effect

@crashcourse 7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely WONDERFUL channel. I learn a lot from all of his videos. Even when he's covering things I already know, I get a new perspective on it. His breakdown of the editing problems in Suicide Squad was extremely good. - Nick J.