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Animated Soviet Propaganda / Propaganda Sovietica animata

(EN) I run into this great long documentary (here’s  3 and 4) about soviet propaganda. It’s full of animated shorts starting from the twenties but also interviews with some directors still alive. One of the first one was written by Vladimir Mayakovsky who was sent to Cuba where  US corporation run the business of sugar and tobacco. He wrote  poem with his experience called Black and White and his drawings were used to produce an animated movie depicting fat priests and white business men enslaving cubans. Propaganda today is still alive and kicking in many other contests and this documentary it’s a good starting point to its strategies and how they evolved. —————— (IT) Mi sono imbattuta in questo sorprendente lungo documentario (qui trovate la parte  3 e 4) sulla propaganda sovietica. Non si tratta dei soliti poster ma di una serie di corti animati creati a partire dagli anni ’20 insieme ad alcune interviste sia ai registi ancora viventi,

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30 ways to electrocute / 30 modi per fulminarsi

(EN) Bre Pettis took pictures of these fascinating illustrations in Elektroschutz book from the ’30, found at the Technisches museum in Vienna. It’s good to know how dangerous can be taking  a bath or peeing around! (IT) Bre Pettis ha scattato le foto di queste insolite illustrazioni  da Elektroschutz,  un libro pubblicato negli anni ’30 e trovato al Technisches museum di Vienna. E’ utile sapere quanto può essere pericoloso fare un bagno o pisciare in giro!