Sixth Part of the World” (quoted in Barbara Wurm's essay in the DVD booklet). Production At the beginning of 1918, Dziga Vertov was hired to edit the newsreel Kinonedelia ("Cineweek") for the Moscow Cinema Committee. With no formal education in the science of editing, he learnt to build a coherent newsreel with a minimum of stock. Practising editing on different kinds of short movies, Vertov began to theorize his own view on editing. In the hope of putting his theories into practice, in 1922 he formed the first group of kinoki ("cine-eyes") in which he began to issue the Kinopravda ("Cine-truth") serie of films. At that time, Vertov published essays in specialized publications detailing his theories on cinema. In 1924, the Goskino film production company set up a documentary section called Kultkino and Vertov was placed in charge. That year, Goskino was replaced by Sovkino, which continue to operate the Kultkino section. In 1925, Gostorg, the Central State Trading Organisation, was seeking a director for a film promoting internal trade and praising the merits of the new social order. A Sixth Part of the World was produced by Kultkino within Sovkino. Reception The film was well received by Pravda. Praising the film, the periodical Sovetskii Ekran ("Soviet Screen") stated: "These films reveal to us that Russian cinematography has found the correct path". However, prominent critics criticized it. Critic Viktor Shklovsky accused the film of being fiction in his article "The Cine-Eyes and Intertitles". According to critic Ippolit Sokolov, the movie is a "deformation of facts done by montage". The film remained mostly unexploited by official propaganda and Vertov was expelled from Sovkino production in 1927, being accused of exceeding more than three times the initial budget of 40,000 roubles (the film actually cost twice this budget). DVD release Editions Filmmuseum released the film in 2009 in a 2-disc set with the film The Eleventh Year (1928). Both films have accompanying compositions by Michael Nyman. Other soundtracks In 2015, the Belgian post-rock band We Stood Like Kings, specialized in writing new soundtracks for silent movies, released its own new live score USSR 1926 for the film on the German label Kapitän Platte. References Joseph Freeman, "The Soviet Cinema", in Voices of October: Art and Literature in Soviet Russia, New York: Vanguard, 1930, pp 217–264. Tsivian, Lines of Resistance, 2004, pp 182–250. Oksana Sarkisova, "Across One Sixth of the World: Dziga Vertov,