Main entry:

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Motion picture)

Title & Author:

Человек с кино-аппаратом : запись на пленку в 6-и роликах / Производство ВУФКУ ; автор-руководитель эксперимента, Дзига Вертов. Chelovek s kino-apparatom : zapisʹ na plenku v 6-i rolikakh / Proizvodstvo VUFKU ; avtor-rukovoditelʹ ėksperimenta, Dziga Vertov.

Publication:

[Chatsworth, Calif.] : Image Entertainment, ©1998.

Description:

1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Blackhawk Films collection

Notes:
Documentary.
Silent film with musical accompaniment ; originally released as a silent motion picture in 1929.
DVD special contents: an audio essay by Yuri Tsivian.
Musical score added to film is copyright 1996.
Not rated.
With yellow English subtitles.
Film was preserved in 1996 by Film Preservation Associates.
Writer and director, D. Vertov; camerman, M. Kaufman ; original music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra, following the music instructions written by Dziga Vertov ; music and film research and annotation, Yuri Tsivian ; produced for video by David Shepard.
DVD NTSC.
Dolby stereo.
Credits in Russian with English subtitles; DVD features in English.

Summary:

An experimental silent film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of Soviet Moscow to study the relation between cinema and reality.

Subject:

Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954.
Silent films.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Motion pictures, Russian.
Documentary films.
Foreign films.
Films muets.
Cinéma russe.
Films étrangers.
Documentaires.
Manners and customs
Travel
Soviet Union Social life and customs 1917-1970.
Moscow (Russia) Description and travel.
URSS Mœurs et coutumes 1917-1970.
Russia (Federation) Moscow
Soviet Union

Form/genre:

NTSC standard.
Video recordings.
Optical disks.
DVDs.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)

Added entries:

Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954.
Kaufman, Mikhail Abramovich, 1897-1980.
Tsivian, Yuri.
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Film Preservation Associates.
Alloy Orchestra.
VUFKU (Firm)
Blackhawk Films collection.

English title: Man with the movie camera: a record on celluloid 6 reels
Title on container: Dziga Vertovʹs Man with the movie camera
Человек с кино-аппаратом : запись на пленку в 6-и роликах /

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 247305
Call No.: PN1997.C452225 M3 1929
Status: Available