--- description: Google Doodle celebrates what would be the 120th birthday of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, otherwise known as the father of montage. title: Soviet Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein Honored With Birthday Google Doodle image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9f2fc68f4936e5d/6988f8ef656a3f4c1dbd33c1/sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday-5380775741489152-2xa-2.gif?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Soviet Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein Honored With Birthday Google Doodle ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:44 PM CUTPublished: Jan 22, 2018 3:35 AM CUT  Google Doodle Google DoodleGoogle Doodle to mark what would have been Sergei Eisensteins 120th birthday on January 22, 2018. by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:44 PM CUTPublished: Jan 22, 2018 3:35 AM CUT Monday would have been the 120th birthday of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, otherwise known as the father of cinematic montage. To mark the occasion, Google [put out](https://www.google.com/doodles/sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday "undefined") a Doodle in honor of the Soviet filmmaker, showing Sergei Eisenstein clipping black-and-white strips from a film spool. Eisenstein’s work famously features intricate arrangements of short shots, juxtaposed to shed light on the psychological composition of an event. Below is one of his most renowned montages: the Odessa Steps sequence from _Battleship Potemkin_. But Eisenstein was not only a technical innovator. As film titles like _Strike_ and _The General Line_ suggest, he had a keen social conscience; Eisenstein turned his lens on the neglected struggles of the oppressed working class. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Soviet Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein Honored With Birthday Google Doodle","datePublished":"2018-01-22T03:35:55.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:44:08.000Z","description":"Eisenstein is known as the father of cinematic montage","url":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9f2fc68f4936e5d/6988f8ef656a3f4c1dbd33c1/sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday-5380775741489152-2xa-2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9f2fc68f4936e5d/6988f8ef656a3f4c1dbd33c1/sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday-5380775741489152-2xa-2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"sergei-eisensteins-120th-birthday-5380775741489152-2xa 2","caption":"Google Doodle","creditText":"Google Doodle to mark what would have been Sergei Eisensteins 120th birthday on January 22, 2018.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/","name":"Soviet Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein Honored With Birthday Google Doodle"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5111974/sergei-eisenstein-google-doodle/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```