The Seafarers was a 30-minute promotional film for the Seafarers International Union. It was Kubrick’s first film in colour. Supervised by the “Seafarers Log” (the union magazine), Kubrick’s role as cinematographer and director was to follow the script and make it look interesting. The film is devoid of cinematic tricks, but it does have a scene at the end when a speaker gives an impassioned talk from the podium as the labourers look on. This montage of speaker and audience echoes similar chest-thumping scenes in Strike (1924) and October (1927), which were directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

Paul Duncan, Stanley Kubrick: The Complete Films, Taschen, Cologne 2003