Cinetrain or cine-train was a documentary film project conducted across the Soviet Union in the late 1920s by director Aleksandr Medvedkin.
[1] Medvedkin outfitted three railroad cars to house his production crew and a lab for rapid developing, processing and assembly of films during the first Five Year Plan.
Made quickly, he must cling to the big screen thriller as a burr in the dog's tail and go with him on any road film distribution.
[3]The severity of raised topics and timely responses allow you to put shorts Medvedkin on a par with modern telehronikoy: "Arriving at an ordinary object, it is the move to remove" hot "subjects, they immediately showed, mounted and on the same day, or at least the next demonstrated at a local club or theatre, to the indescribable delight of the audience ".
Members of the Medvedkino group, led by Chris Marker, perceived Medvedkin as the "Che Guevara of cinema" - "an enthusiastic militant propagandist, created in an almost partisan style, in the shortest possible time and on the spot.