 Production was stopped by Soviet officials in 1937.  Sergei M. Eisenstein (qv) had spent two years filming the movie  and at times had up to 3 different completed versions. The shot  material in movie form was taken to a film storage which was  destroyed during a German bombing raid in the war. The film to  confirmed to be destroyed at this time, however the government is  thought to have destroyed it earlier on. Eisenstein, however saves  two frames from the beginning and end of all of his shots and in the  mid 1960s these were put together according to script, story board,  and notes on the film to a 31