Man with a movie camera

Duration: 55

Year Published: 1929

Creator: Cine Service

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: A Russian film, historically important because of its advances in cinematography, illustrating the technique of the kino-eye and incorporating such techniques as superimposition, split-screen effect, slow and accelerated motion and the freeze-frame. Filmed in Moscow and Odessa, it belongs to the city symphony genre. It illustrates the environment of the worker and the filmmaker as a particular member of this group.

Complete Record: A Russian film, historically important because of its advances in cinematography, illustrating the technique of the kino-eye and incorporating such techniques as superimposition, split-screen effect, slow and accelerated motion and the freeze-frame. Filmed in Moscow and Odessa, it belongs to the city symphony genre. It illustrates the environment of the worker and the filmmaker as a particular member of this group.