Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Directed by Dziga Vertov · Cinematography by Mikhail Kaufman, Gleb Troyanski
68 min64 frames
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What is Man with a Movie Camera about?
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Man with a Movie Camera is a 1929 Soviet experimental silent documentary film, written and directed by Dziga Vertov. It was filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova.
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Who made Man with a Movie Camera?
Dziga VertovDirector
Mikhail KaufmanCinematography- Gleb TroyanskiCinematography
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Across 64 sampled frames, Man with a Movie Camera builds its coverage from close-ups (34% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman keeps 58% of it in naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame, over a texture recalling 16mm. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 59% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Man with a Movie Camera (1929) are #8e8e8d, #2d2d2d, #4d4d4c, #cfcfce, #060606, #6e6e6e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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