Editing Dziga Vertov (section)

===Late career===
[[File:Плакат к фильму «Энтузиазм (Симфония Донбасса)».jpg|thumb|''[[Enthusiasm (film)|Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass]]'' (1931)]]
Vertov's successful career continued into the 1930s. ''[[Enthusiasm (film)|Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass]]'' (1931), an examination into Soviet miners, has been called a 'sound film', with sound recorded on location, and these mechanical sounds woven together, producing a symphony-like effect. Many Soviet critics did not receive the film positively, but critics abroad lauded its sonic experimentation.<ref>  Kendall, Matthew. Boisterous Utopia: Soviet Sonic Culture and Dziga Vertov's. The Russian Review: An American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present. Vol. 81, 2022.
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Three years later, ''[[Three Songs About Lenin]]'' (1934) looked at the revolution through the eyes of the Russian peasantry. For his film, Vertov had been hired by [[Gorky Film Studio|Mezhrabpomfilm]]. The film, finished in January 1934 for Lenin's obit, was only publicly released in the Soviet Union in November of that year. From July 1934 it was shown at private screenings to various high-ranking Soviet officials and also to prominent foreigners including H. G. Wells, [[William Christian Bullitt Jr.|William Bullitt]], and others, and it was screened at the [[2nd Venice International Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]] in August 1934.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory Reader|last=MacKay|first=John|publisher=Academic Studies Press|year=2012|isbn=9781618111425|editor-last=Ioffe|editor-first=Dennis|pages=420|chapter=Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film|editor-last2=White|editor-first2=Frederick}}</ref> A new version of the film was released in 1938, including a longer sequence to reflect Stalin's achievements at the end of the film and leaving out footage of "enemies" of that time. Today there exists a 1970 reconstruction by [[Yelizaveta Svilova]]. With the rise and official sanction of [[socialist realism]] in 1934, Vertov was forced to cut his personal artistic output significantly, eventually becoming little more than an editor for Soviet newsreels.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}} ''[[Lullaby (1937 film)|Lullaby]]'', perhaps the last film in which Vertov was able to maintain his artistic vision, was released in 1937.

Dziga Vertov died of cancer in Moscow in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacKay |first=John |date=2011-04-01 |title=A REVOLUTION IN FILM: THE CINEMA OF DZIGA VERTOV |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/a-revolution-in-film-the-cinema-of-dziga-vertov-197128/ |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>