ID: 9005  -  Francesca De Ruggieri  -  Bari Type: Text Format: Medium: Article Extent: 5 pp Identifier: Source: Title: Second Manifesto by the Editors of Experimental Cinema Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1933 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Close Up, vol X, n. 3, 1933 Coverage: Place: Time: 1933 Description: Manifesto by the Editors of the American review Experimental Cinema - published in the last issue of Close Up - and devoted to Ejzenstejn's mutilated film Que viva Mexico! Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Keywords: Eisenstein, Sergei Michailovich Keywords: Hollywood Keywords: Mexico Keywords: USSR Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Eisenstein, Sergei Michailovich) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Hollywood) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Mexico) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, USSR) Comment: Stern writes: Eisenstein’s great vision of the Mexican ethos, which he had intended to present in the form of a ‘film symphony’, has been destroyed. Of the original conception, as revealed in the scenario and in Eisenstein’s correspondence with the editors of EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, nothing remains in the commercialized version except the photography, which no amount of mediocre cutting could destroy. As feared by Eisenstein’s friends and admirers, the scenario, written in the form of prose poem, merely confused the professional Hollywood cutters. The original meaning of the film has been perverted by reproduction of the whole to a single unconnected romantic story.