TY - ADVS AU - Vertov,Dziga AU - Kaufman,Mikhail AU - Svilova,Yelizaveta AU - Shepard,David AU - Tsivian,Yuri ED - Alloy Orchestra ED - Image Entertainment (Firm) TI - Man with the movie camera T2 - Blackhawk films collection U1 - 791.4372 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Image Entertainment KW - Silent films KW - Soviet Union KW - Documentary films KW - Experimental films KW - Moscow (Russia) KW - Description and travel N1 - Region 1; Dolby digital stereo; Aspect ratio 1.33:1; Special features: audio essay by Yuri Tsivian; Originally released as a motion picture in 1929; Original music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra following music instructions written by Dziga Vertov; Camera, Mikhail Kaufman; editing, Dziga Vertov and Yelizaveta Svilova N2 - An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going, with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of pioneering cinematic techniques to document the full spectrum of 1929 Society life - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames - and produced a radical experiment in film that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant ER -