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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Philips Radio 1931 / The Netherlands / sound / B&W / 36 min / 35mm Director, Script: Joris Ivens Camera: Joris Ivens, Jean Dréville, John Fernhout, Mark Kolthoff Editors: Joris Ivens, Helen van Dongen Music: Lou Lichtveld Production company: CAPI Amsterdam Commissioned by: Philips Eindhoven N.V. The first Dutch sound film and another avant-garde masterpiece. Philips Radio is an ode to technological progress as well as a critique of monotonous labor. Ever-repeating actions at stamping machines and on an assembly-line, and continuous light bulb-blowing illustrate the dullness of the physically demanding work. Although it was a company-sponsored film, several Philips branches refused to show the film because of its social content. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee