Think about it. Americans are divided into two parties. Either they are beyond-reason-rich capitalists, or they are used working class men, working for slave wages like the poor negros.
Chernoe i beloe (Black and White)
Animator: Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Leonid Amalrik
Soviet Union, Russia 1932
3 min
After a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Mayakovsky is often called the loudspeaker of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yet he was also a most talented poet, whose works are widely quoted even today. As a graphic artist, he was one of the founders of the Okna Rosta (Rosta Windows) a massive media publicity blitz which used posters to spread word of the Revolution via the Russian telegraphic agency.
The animation in “Black and White” is based on his drawings.
In 1922, Mayakovsky received special permission to travel to America. En route he stopped in Cuba where Americans controlled the sugar and tobacco industries. “Black and White” tells the story of Willie, the shoe shine boy, who makes the fatal mistake of asking the White Sugar King Mister Bragg, “Why should white sugar be made by a black man?”
The animation in “Black and White” is based on his drawings.
In 1922, Mayakovsky received special permission to travel to America. En route he stopped in Cuba where Americans controlled the sugar and tobacco industries. “Black and White” tells the story of Willie, the shoe shine boy, who makes the fatal mistake of asking the White Sugar King Mister Bragg, “Why should white sugar be made by a black man?”
Audio commentaries from Animated Soviet Propaganda DVD-box
Bring out the whip, I say.
