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Mechanics of the Brain is a film of genre Documentary directed by Vsevolod Poudovkine released in USA on 17 november 1928

Mechanics of the Brain (1926)

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Released in USA 17 november 1928
Length 1h30
Rating58% 2.9297252.9297252.9297252.9297252.929725

Mechanics of the Brain (Russian: Механика головного мозга, Myekhanika golovnogo mozga) is a 1926 Soviet documentary film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, a popularization of Ivan Pavlov's studies in classical conditioning. The film is the first independent work of Pudovkin as a director and also marks the start of his collaboration with cinematographer Anatoli Golovnya.

Pudovkin joined Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio in 1925 and, as his first job, was assigned to make a popular science film about Ivan Pavlov's work. The filming started in May 1925 and proceeded for more than a year. The many delays were caused by constant shuttling between the Pavlov's laboratory in Leningrad and the film studio in Moscow as well as difficulties with filming conditioned animals who were easily distracted by the lights and sounds of filming process.

Twenty years later, Pudovkin told an interviewer:




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The only significance this first film of mine has is that it made me realize that I could work on my own. Up to then such idea seemed absolutely impossible to me, although Kuleshov assured me that I was fully able to...

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^ Leyda 1960, p. 206.
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