The contributors included Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dziga Vertov and Lev Kuleshov.
[1] It was, for a while, the principal journal of the emerging cinematic industry in the Soviet Union.
[2] The magazine is credited for being an avant-garde influence for the creative flow the 1920s, bringing new abstract photomontage and typographic designs.
[3] The first issue contained Vertov's statement "We: Variant of a Manifesto" which commenced with a distinction between "kinoks" and other approaches to the emergent cinematic industry: Hyppolite Sokolov wrote those introductory lines : "Cinema - a new philosophy.
[5] This issue included drawings by Varvara Stepanova, a drawing by Alexander Rodchenko of a proposed building for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets and an article by him about Charlie Chaplin.