THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

The experimental 1929 silent documentary style film, directed by Russian director Dziga Vertov uses two components of camera work:

shooting and editing. Vertov uses everyrange of cinematic devices of filming and editing- slow motion, animation, multiple images,

split-screen, zooms and reverse zooms, blurring focus, and freeze frame - to create a textbook of film technique. Vertov's camera begins

to roll as he city gradually awakens, its buses and tramsemergiing from their night-hangars and its empty streets gradually filling, and

continues by tracking people of the city through their routines of work and play. The principles behind this documentary is the honesty of

the filming as compared with the fiction film, the perfection of the cinematic eye compared to the human eye - inform Vertov's The Man

With A Movie Camera.