The LA blog Film Journey has a short piece on a UK release of a restored version of Dovzhenko's Earth featuring side-by-side comparison of a few shots with the dark, grainy, indistinct Kino DVD we viewed in class. It gives you a little bit of a sense of how the film should look. It's always evident that Dovzhenko intends to take advantage of the luminosity of cinematic images.
You can view a clip on the Mr. Bongo site here.
You can see in this comparison that the Kino version crops the image, too, which may explain why characters' heads were sometimes out of frame. The article also says the the version we saw is over-cranked, which may explain why some characters' movements are a little too fast and jerky and may threaten to verge on comedy. I would really love to see this release.
If anyone knows how to get at this version, please let me know.
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