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Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) More at IMDbPro »

• 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.
  
  
• The film anticipates many of the techniques used 50 years later in Koyaanisqatsi (1982).
  
  
• In 1996 Norwegian composer Geir Jenssen ("aka Biosphere") was commissioned by the Tromsø International Film Festival to write a new soundtrack for the movie, using the director's written instructions for the original accompanying piano player. Jenssen wrote half of the soundtrack, turning the other half to Per Martinsen (aka Mental Overdrive). It was used for the Norwegian version, "Mannen med filmkameraet", at the 1996 TIFF. The scored movie was not available after the festival. Soundtrack released in 2001 on CD.
  
  

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