The third sequence shows metaphorically the contents of Glumov's Diary, using several stop motion substitutions reminiscent of early films by George Méliès.
Glumov's Diary was a short film produced as a part the theatre production of Alexander Ostrovsky’s 1868 comedy Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Na vsyakovo mudretsa dovolno prostoty) that Eisenstein realised in 1923 for the Proletkult organisation.
In the revolutionary context of the Soviet Union established one year before in 1922, the aim of this organisation was to create a new artistic aesthetics suitable for the working class.
He transposed the action to contemporary Russian émigrés circles in Paris, with new names for the characters and gave it a parodic style inspired by circus and the Commedia dell'arte.
The film was shot in April 1923 around the Arseny Morozov House in Moscow where the Proletkult theatre productions were taking place, a few days before the première of the play and was screened during the live performance.