Notes for a Film of "Capital"

Abstract

October 13, 1927. . . To extend the line (and to explicate it, step by step) of dialectical development in my work. Let us recall: 1. STRIKE. The order-educational and methodological film on the methods and processes of class and of underground work. Whence-serial film structure and detachment from a specific place (in the project there's a whole series of escapes, prison life, rebellion, body-searches, etc.). 2. POTEMKIN. I'm emphasizing, just as the film's direction does, the dialectical result: a pathos of the ordinary and the psychologically concrete: tarpaulin: mourning-par excellence. Suddenly . ..2 the abstract emotion of the lions:3 a [leap] from representation of ordinary life to abstract and generalized imagery. 3. OCTOBER Harnessed lions-speeches of Mensheviks, the bicycles, (N.B. the second derived from the car and motorcycle races that were cut into the mowing sequence of our GENERAL) led to a complete departure from the factual and anecdotal-the events of OCTOBER (in that section) are accepted, not as