Battleship Potemkin - Time Period

This movie was made in 1925 and was an important, early example of using films as propaganda, especially through the use of montage. The director of this film, Sergei Eisenstein, helped to develop the style of montage, or the splicing together of two or more different shots to create a new one with new meaning, and this film was his testing ground to see how it would effect an audience. He wanted to move the audience's emotions to side with a certain character or group of people, which in this case was the crew of the Potemkin and the revolutionists against the tsars.

For the time this film was made, the amount of violence was shocking and appalling. Many countries simply banned it from being shown or edited out the offending material.

John