Engineer Prite's Project

A peat-powered plant, an oil company that wants it stopped, a friendship and a marriage in the way, all shot on location with a cast that included the director's brother. Lev Kuleshov was nineteen. He said later that this was where he worked out that a cut could join two places that had never met, so the theory of montage starts as a story about electricity. 1918, thirty-one minutes.