The Cranes Are Flying 3D Render, Digital Artwork by bisonravi

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The Cranes Are Flying

3D Render by bisonravi

This weird TV is a "Soviet TV KVN-49" (from Osho and freely available on Sketchfab - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/soviet-tv-kvn-49-afb71024325c40eaacf2032868ca6f88 ). The KVN-49 (Russian: KBH-49) or Kenigson, Varshavskiy, Nikolayevskiy Mk. 1949 was a black-and-white TV set released in 1949 and on the market in the USSR until 1960, with some minor modifications. It was the first TV set ever mass-produced in the USSR. I have posted two additional pictures showing the model alone.

The original model has a screen showing a girl eating. I replaced the image with a picture from the movie "The cranes are flying" (hence the title of the picture).

The Cranes Are Flying (translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet war drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm, written by Viktor Rozov, and starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. It depicts the cruelty and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of the Second World War, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. The film had a profound impact on Soviet cinema, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the only Soviet film to win that award.

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MjrkThu, Aug 28

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Good idea, an interesting picture. There are computers in the film "Brazil" with a similar technique.
And I always thought, it was a funny idea of the prop-makers smile