Made first for older men 1
In the Shadow of the Machine's audience scores lean most toward older men at 76 of 100 1. Its overall reach is rated targeted — targeted reach aimed at a specific demographic segment 2. On content balance it reads entertainment-first at 0 of 100, weighting storytelling over explicit messaging 3.
- 1Audience scoreolder men 76 of 100 is the top quadrant.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
- 2ReachAudience breadth rated targeted.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
- 3Content balanceContent balance entertainment-first at 0 of 100.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1
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Age: 61 — leans mature
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Advocacy
Synopsis
The film was produced as a compilation film. Blum reported in “Film-Kurier“ (5.11.1928): "It will be assembled from excerpts of partly unpublished Ukrainian films. […] Some American footage has also been used. To get material as impressive as possible, a number of films, 0-60, have been viewed." Based on ideas by Dziga Vertov, and largely assembled from the last reel of his film 'The Eleventh Year', this compilation presents an explicit critique of the very technology that Vertov sought to praise, stressing the dark side of industrialization—hands mangled in workplace accidents, train wrecks, coffins—and connects to a particularly German concern with the negative effects of technology stretching from the Romantics to Heidegger, Horkheimer, and Adorno in the twentieth century.
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Advocacy Over Time in Documentary
The average advocacy score of Documentary titles by release year, with this title marked. Higher is more advocacy-driven.
| Year | Average advocacy | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 0 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 | 2 |
| 1967 | 3 | 2 |
| 1968 | 5 | 2 |
| 1970 | 2 | 3 |
| 1971 | 0 | 2 |
| 1974 | 0 | 3 |
| 1975 | 6 | 3 |
| 1985 | 0 | 2 |
| 1989 | 0 | 3 |
| 1990 | 0 | 2 |
| 1992 | 0 | 3 |
| 1994 | 0 | 3 |
| 1996 | 0 | 4 |
| 1997 | 0 | 5 |
| 1999 | 2 | 7 |
| 2001 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 1 | 11 |
| 2003 | 2 | 15 |
| 2004 | 1 | 9 |
| 2005 | 3 | 11 |
| 2006 | 1 | 20 |
| 2007 | 2 | 9 |
| 2008 | 2 | 13 |
| 2009 | 0 | 5 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 9 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 8 |
| 2014 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 12 |
| 2019 | 0 | 7 |
| 2020 | 1 | 17 |
| 2021 | 3 | 6 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2 |
| This title (1928) | 0 | 1 |
● This title (1928): advocacy 0 · explore Documentary →
Cast & Crew
Albrecht Viktor Blum (director) · Léo Lania (director)
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