Sergei Eisenstein and V. I. Pudovkin were among the Soviet Montage directors who in 1928 signed the "Statement on Sound" declaring that film sound:

A. should not simply duplicate the image but should add to the image in some way.
B. should be welcomed as a tool for helping cinema present a more complete reproduction of reality.
C. should not be used until all of the Soviet Union's theaters, permanent and portable, were wired for sound projection.
D. should be thought of as the "mortar" in the brick-by-brick (that is, shot-by-shot) construction of a film.

Answer: A

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