Kino-Pravda
was a newsreel series by Dziga_Vertov, Elizaveta_Svilova, and Mikhail_Kaufman. Working predominantly during the 1920s, Vertov promoted the concept of ''kino-pravda'', or ''film-truth'', through his newsreel series. Vertov's driving vision was to capture fragments of actuality which, when organized together, showed a deeper truth which could not be seen with the naked eye. In the "Kino-Pravda" series, Vertov focused on everyday experiences, eschewing bourgeois concerns and filming marketplaces, bars, and schools instead, sometimes with a hidden camera, without asking permission first. The episodes of "Kino-Pravda" usually did not include reenactments or stagings (one exception is the segment about the trial of the state. Propagandistic tendencies are also present, but with more subtlety, in the episode featuring the construction of an airport: one shot shows the former Czar's tanks helping prepare a foundation, with an intertitle reading "Tanks on the labor front." Vertov clearly intended an active relationship with his audience in the series--in the final segment he includes contact information--but by the 14th episode the series had become so experimental that some critics dismissed Vertov's efforts as "insane." The term ''kino pravda'', though it translates "film truth," is not to be confused with the cinema_verite movement in documentary_film, which also translates "film truth." Cinema verite was similarly marked with the intention of capturing reality "warts and all," but became popular in France in the 1960s.
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