Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Solely Animated Movie Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

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The Sovi­et Union’s repres­sive state cen­sor­ship went to absurd lengths to con­trol what its cit­i­zens learn, seen, and lis­tened to, resembling the virtually com­i­cal elimination of purged for­mer com­rades from pho­tographs dur­ing Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aes­thet­ics, Stal­in­ism most­ly purged extra avant-garde ten­den­cies from the humanities and lit­er­a­ture in favor of didac­tic…

Soviet Inventor Léon Theremin Reveals Off the Theremin, the Early Digital Instrument That Might Be Performed With out Being Touched (1954)

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You recognize the sound of the theremin, that bizarre, conflict­bly whine that sig­nals mys­tery, dan­ger, and oth­er­world­ly por­tent in lots of clas­sic sci-fi movies. It has the dis­tinc­tion of being not solely the very first elec­tron­ic instru­ment but in addition the one instru­ment in his­to­ry one performs with­out ever contact­ing any a part of it. As…