“Cinema is the heir of all artistic cultures, as is the nation itself that elevated it for the first time in all history – both in estimation and creatively – to the very heights of art, and it is the heir of all cultures of the preceding ages.”
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Sergei M. Eisenstein Notes for a General History of Cinema Edited by Naum Kleiman & Antonio Somaini
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