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Man With a Movie Camera

Man With a Movie Camera. Context – post revolution Propaganda – presentation of ideal soviet community Lenin: importance of cinema in establishing socialism Constructivism & Rodchenko as influence Agit trains and newsreel Other filmmakers: Kuleshov , Eisenstein, Pudovkin

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Man With a Movie Camera

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  1. Man With a Movie Camera

  2. Context – post revolution • Propaganda – presentation of ideal soviet community • Lenin: importance of cinema in establishing socialism • Constructivism & Rodchenko as influence • Agittrains and newsreel • Other filmmakers: Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin • Kuleshov effect • Vertov & Kino Eye • Cinematic achievements in film

  3. Kino-Pravda checklist of essentials for a Kino-Eye filmmaker: • 1.  rapid means of transport2.  highly sensitive film stock3.  light handheld film cameras4.  equally light lighting equipment5.  a crew of super-swift cinema reporters (etc)

  4. Experimentation

  5. The film drama is the Opium of the people…down with Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! —DzigaVertov

  6. Dynamic composition

  7. The primacy of the camera

  8. Man and machine in harmony

  9. Comrades in both work and play – emphasis on the individual as part of a whole

  10. The process of filmmaking

  11. The act of spectating

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