Kino-Fot
Kino-Fot was a Russian magazine dedicated to cinema produced from 1922 to 1923 under the editorship of Aleksei Gan. A total of six issues of the magazine were produced, five in 1922 with a sixth in 1923. The contributors included Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dziga Vertov and Lev Kuleshov. It was, for a while, the principal journal of the emerging cinematic industry in the Soviet Union.
The magazine is credited for being an avant-garde influence for the creative flow the 1920s, bringing new abstract photomontage and typographic designs.
Issue 1, 25–31 August 1922
The first issue contained Vertov's statement "We: Variant of a Manifesto" which commenced with a distinction between "kinoks" and other approaches to the emergent cinematic industry:Hyppolite Sokolov wrote those introductory lines : "Cinema - a new philosophy. Cinema's language, analytical or synthetic, is the new esperanto of the futur. Cinema - a new science. It will replace newspapers, will help scientists and teachers. The straight line is everywhere : town, American architecture, etc. It is opposed to the curved line. Our era is the one of geometric and mechanic beauty Alone on the screen stands the automated man, of the new industry, the man who walks in a taylorized fashion. We need H.G. Wells".