 "Fall of the Romanov Dynasty" (1927) is one of Shub’s most famous surviving films and what many film historians classify as the first compilation film or Soviet montage.Shub traveled to Leningrad in 1926 to obtain the footage she needed for the film.She spent two months examining more than 60,000 meters of film (much of which was damaged) and chose 5,200 meters to take back to Moscow.