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Man With A Film Camera Analysis

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TOPIC: DEVELOPMENT: THROUGH HARDWORKING PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF SOCIETY I have selected the following two documentaries, as these films show hardworking people belonging to different sections of society, collectively which brings about the development of a City or the Nation.
1. MAN WITH A MOVING CAMERA: By: Dziga Vertov , Made in 1929
Man with a Movie camera is a film in which Dziag Vertov has shown us the life of people in a city. This film is about a city undergoing modernization, showing us actual images and not using any set or reconstruction during filming. Vertov has shown us the different moods of the city from morning till night, with people working at various locations, going …show more content…

In Man with the Movie Camera, we do not see any actors performing; we mostly see shots of a man working with his camera, doing the filming at various locations. This cameraman is Vertov’s brother Mikhail. This film shows us how the cameraman has taken various shots, we see him on top of a moving truck with adjustable tripod, capturing images. Also we see a moving train coming towards the camera, as the camera has been placed in a hole dug up between the tracks. We see a lot of different images during this film such as, workers working at various locations like a factory, construction site of buildings. We also see images of planes, buses, trains, boats, streets, beaches, etc. Close ups of male and female faces. Roger Ebert who is a film critic says that "Man With a Movie Camera" opens with an empty cinema, its seats standing at attention. The seats swivel down (by themselves), and an audience hurries in and fills them. They begin to look at a film. This film. And this film is about--this film being made, which relies on Formalism. Crucially Vertov, disdained everyday observation: "Our eyes," he wrote, "see very poorly and very little the movie camera was invented to penetrate more deeply into the visible

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