At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, the slide show (known as "sveto-gazeta" or "light-newspaper") was a very popular method of spreading information in the workers' clubs of the Soviet Union: a series of slides on a common theme accompanied by short captions (slogans, quotations from leaders' speeches, lines of verse) and images (photographs, drawings, diagrams). In 1928 a correspondent of the magazine "Sovietskoe foto" wrote: "With the aid of a whole range of techniques - varying the duration of the slide on the screen, original foreshortening of the subject, use of lighting - a striking effect can be achieved, so that the show actually seems to lose its static quality. Thanks to these techniques the 'light-newspaper' can be watched with almost as much ease as a cinema film."

Some fragments of these "light-newspaper" shows devoted to the successes of the Jewish agricultural colonies, consisting of hand-coloured slides and photographs furnished with captions in Russian and Yiddish, have been preserved in the archives of the Russian Ethnographic Museum