Gramophone’s Adventures
In some movies, gramophones have become a symbol of the cultural enlightment. Convincing scenes of indigenious people, listening to unheard-of devices brought by “white devils”, embody both cultural
and technical progress.
Perhaps, legendary documentary Nanook of the North (directed and produced by Robert J. Flaherty, 1922) heralded this trend in motion pictures. Then, Soviet adventure comedy Chief
Chukotky («Начальник Чукотки», directed by Vitali Melnikov, produced by Lenfilm Studios, 1966) was one of the brilliant films …