Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Bold editing and the Odessa Steps reshape film language
In December 1925 Sergei Eisenstein's film about the 1905 naval mutiny premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre. Its pioneering montage, above all the Odessa Steps sequence, made it one of the most influential films ever made.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 11 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 7 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 14 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 22 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 23 years later
Europe
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 6 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 3 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 8 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 11 years later
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 16 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 17 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 10 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 9 years earlier
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 9 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 7 years later
Africa
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 21 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 3 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 10 years later
Asia
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 14 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 2 years earlier
- 1931 China floods — 6 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 9 years later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 20 years later
Americas
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 12 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 11 years earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 11 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 4 years later
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 5 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 14 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 13 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 11 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 16 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 78)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 69)
- Marie Curie (aged 58)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 56)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 54)
- Winston Churchill (aged 51)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 47)
- Albert Einstein (aged 46)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 44)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (aged 44)