Figure 1.-- The Cinema Studio of Lithuania dilmed a Ray Bradbury story as "Electronic Granny" in 1985. There does not seem to have been a Lithuamian influenmce except the perty Baltic scenery and perhaps the costuming. We thought the choice of a Brdbury story might be a subltle anti-Soviet choice, but a Russian reader tells us that Bradbury was popular throughout the Soviet Union.

The Cinema Studio of Lithuania was the Soviet republic studio. It was established in 1956. This of course was the same year that the 20th Party Congress loosened Stalinist censorship. We do not know much about the studio. It like other republic studios was not precisely a Lituanian studio. There would have been Russians working at the studio as well as Lithuanians. We do not have much information on the studio at this time. We are not sure to what extent there was a Lithuanian influence beyond the people working on the film and cast. Nor do we know how many filns were made in the Lithuanian lanaguage. Of course to do so would have limited the box office appeal in the rest of the Societ Union. We note a film made by the studio--"Electronic Granny". It was based on a story by an American writer--Ray Bradbury. The only evidently Lithusanian influences are the pretty Baltic landscapes. Costuming is also sometimes a factor. We do know that many in the Baltics by the 1980s were increasingly influenced by nationalist thought.

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