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Director:
Dziga Vertov
Writer:
Dziga Vertov (writer)
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Release Date:
12 May 1929 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness. full summary | add synopsis
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Cinema Grows in 1929 more

Cast

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Mikhail Kaufman ... The cameraman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Человек с Киноаппаратом (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera (USA)
Man with a Movie Camera (International: English title)
The Man with a Movie Camera
The Man with the Movie Camera
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Runtime:
68 min
Country:
Soviet Union
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
Kiev, Ukraine more
Company:
VUFKU more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The British electronic/jazz outfit "The Cinematic Orchestra" created a soundtrack for this movie, released in 2003 as the "Man With a Movie Camera" album and played live at film festivals over the world. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hungerford: Symphony of a London Bridge (2009) more

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18 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Cinema Grows in 1929, 10 May 2003
Author: Brillman from USA

After watching The Man with a Movie Camera, I was not only confused but terrified at the same time. Experiencing many images in the span of an hour made this movie mind-boggling and creepy. What caught my attention right off the bat was how the director's camera and editing techniques were amazing for being made in the 1920's. Throughout the film, there were many camera shots of a town, but in a unique way. Some angles were shot from above, below, and even on objects that were constantly moving around the town. A great editing technique used was a split screen showing a different movement on top of the screen then from the bottom. The town could be moving at a regular pace at one point where the next time the film is sped up conveying trauma and fast motion through the actual film. At one point in the movie, a camera was setup to show a train coming right at the lens. I thought the train was going to hit the camera and the person shooting the film. Right as the train gets to the camera, it lowers into a bunker under the train as it passes. Great camera techniques were used to give powerful feeling to that particular scene. Later in the movie, many images of eyes would appear very fast and then disappear. This occurred frequently throughout the movie and struck me as being weird and disturbing. Showing women work and pack cigarettes and then flashing to a pair of eyes seems very odd to me. What I do find interesting is how Vertov was able to edit these scenes so quickly together. Over the whole movie, he muse have taken so many random camera angles and shots that when he edited them together, he loved it. Overall, I thought this movie was educational in the history of film. It shows how talented directors were back in the 20's and how history has played a big role in camera and editing techniques.

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