Made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, October (known in its shorter version as Ten Days That Shook the World) has taken on newsreel status, with its famously excerptable images of the storming of the Winter Palace, said to be more spectacular and better attended than the actual event. Release was held up while Eisenstein was forced to excise footage of Trotsky who was himself being excised from Party life. But to see it now is to re-experience the shock of the experimental with which it was met on its initial release. Eisenstein's theories of intellectual montage turned the objects and figures of recent history into metaphorical elements. Raymond Durgnat wrote, on the film's reissue in London, "It's like music in that its physical presence affects one kinesthetically, and sets one's pulses, and mind, racing. It's both mysterious and overwhelming."