Vertov and Early Soviet animation

From the Russian Film Blog I discovered this little gem of an animated film by Dziga Vertov (here is the link to this post http://russianfilm.blogspot.com/2012/03/soviet-toys-1924-dziga-vertov-goskino.html). By the way for any Russian/Soviet киноманы (film buffs) I'd strongly recommend the blog as it is much more regular in posting than I am and offers a whole host of subtitled clips of recent and sometimes historical films. Knowing of Vertov's contempt for fiction I was quite astounded at this ten minute clip. It seems though that Vertov was at the very heart of the process of initiating Soviet animated film. Another two films Случай в Токио (An Incident in Tokio) and Юморески (Humoresque) are recorded as being directed by Vertov. The rather basic techniques used in the 'Kultkino' studies in 1924-1925 were soon superseded. For some notes in Russian on this early period here is a link with further information: http://www.myltik.ru/index.php?topic=interes/history&fe=history3