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Category Archives: silent film
MIKHAIL KAUFMAN: portraits
Dziga Vertov’s experimental film ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ (VUFKU 1929) portrays a day in the life of an unnamed Soviet city in 1928. Filming the activities of its inhabitants at work and play the cinematographer (and Vertov’s brother) Mikhail … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Film studios, Man with a Movie Camera, Photography, silent film, Soviet film, Ukraine, Uncategorized
Tagged City symphony, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman, Photography, Soviet silent film, Ukrainian film, VUFKU
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VUFKU 100
100th anniversary of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration The All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Adminstration (Vse-Ukrains’ke Foto Kino Upravlinnia, ВУФКУ – Всеукраїнське фоtокіноуправління) was founded on the 13th March 1922 by the National Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. Lenin realised … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Film studios, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Ukraine, Uncategorized
Tagged Goskino, Man with a Movie Camera, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, silent film, Soviet silent film, Sovkino, Soyuzkino, Ukrainfilm, Ukrainian cinema, VUFKU
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting!
‘Long live the poetry of the propelling and propelled machine, the poetry of levers, wheels, and steel wings1, the iron screech of movements, the dazzling grimaces of red-hot jets.’ From: ‘We. A Version of a Manifesto’, Dziga Vertov, Kino-Fot no. … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Steam locomotives, Uncategorized
Tagged agit train, Debrie Parvo camera, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Soviet locomotives, Steam trains in Russia, Trains in Man with a Movie Camera
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: reflections
Studying ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ carefully, shot by shot, for two previous posts on the locations and cameras, I was struck by the repetition of reflected and reversed images throughout the film from the first dramatic view of the … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Cine-Eye, Debrie Parvo, Dziga Vertov, кино-глаз, Elizaveta Svilova, Flopped Shot, Kinamo, Kino-Eye, Kino-Glaz, Krauss Zeiss Tessar lens, Left-Right Reversal, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Mirror reversal, Reflected shots
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening
In the spring of 1927 Dziga Vertov* moved to Kyiv to work for VUFKU, the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Adminstration (Vse-Ukrains’ke Foto Kino Upravlinnia, ВУФКУ – Всеукраїнське фоtокіноуправління) after being sacked by Sovkino, the Russian equivalent, for being over budget on … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Design, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, Photography, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Berlin, Der Mann mit der Kamera, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Express Cinema, Film und Foto Exhibition, Goskino No. 1 Cinema, Goskino No. 2 Cinema, Hermitage Cinema, K. Liebnecht Cinema, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Historical Museum, Kyiv, Man with a Movie Camera, Marmorhaus Cinema, Mikhail Kaufman, Moscow, Museum of Moscow, Odesa, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, Palace Hotel, Shantser Cinema, Tverskaia 46 Cinema, VUFKU
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations
1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers Dziga Vertov’s 1929 experimental masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ [Человек с кино аппаратом, Chelovek s kino apparatom (R), Людина з кіноапаратом, Lyudyna z kinoaparatom (U)], along with Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cinema, Constructivism, Design, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Arcadia Beach, Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, Bolshoi Theatre, Debrie Parvo movie camera, Documentary film, Donbass, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Experimental film, Film locations, Kiev, Kulyanik, Kuznetsky Most, Man with a Movie Camera, Man with a Movie Camera film locations, Man with a Movie Camera locations, Mikhail Kaufman, Moscow, Odessa, Photography, Potemkin Stairs, Soviet Silent Movies, Strastnaya Square, The Eleventh Year, Volkhov Hydroelectric Plant
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations
1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers ‘We leave the film studio for life, for that whirlpool of colliding visible phenomena, where everything is real, where people, tramways, motorcycles, and trains meet and part, where each bus follows … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cinema, Constructivism, Design, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Arcadia Beach, Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, Bolshoi Theatre, Boulevard Stairs, Coal Mine, Debrie Parvo movie camera, Documentary film, Donbas, Donbass, Donetsk, Dziga Vertov, Eisenstein, Elizaveta Svilova, Experimental film, Film locations, Iron foundry, Kamianske, Kiev, Kinamo, Kulyanik, Kuznetsky Most, Kyiv, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Moscow, Odesa, Photography, Potemkin Stairs, Pushkins'ka Street, Soviet Silent Movies, Steelworks, Strastnaya Square, The Eleventh Year, Tverskaya, Volkhov Hydroelectric Plant
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The movie cameras in Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ is a staple of film studies courses and has been analysed and written about countless times. What has had no attention, surprisingly, is the actual equipment used on and in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Cinema, Photography, silent film, Uncategorized
Tagged Abel Gance, Alexander Rodchenko, cine camera, Debrie, Debrie Grande Vitesse, Debrie GV, Debrie Le Parvo, Debrie Sept, Debrie tripod, Dziga Vertov, Eduard Tisse, Elizaveta Svilova, Emile Labrely, Ica Kinamo, Kino Eye, Kino Glaz, Kinok, Le Parvo, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Silent film camera, Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, Zeiss Ikon Kinamo
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras
1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ is a staple of film studies courses and has been analysed and written about countless times. What has had no attention, surprisingly, … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Cinema, Photography, silent film, Uncategorized
Tagged Abel Gance, Alexander Rodchenko, cine camera, Debrie, Debrie Grande Vitesse, Debrie GV, Debrie Le Parvo, Debrie Sept, Debrie tripod, Dziga Vertov, Eduard Tisse, Elizaveta Svilova, Emile Labrely, Ica Kinamo, Kino Eye, Kino Glaz, Kinok, Le Parvo, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Silent film camera, Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, Zeiss Ikon Kinamo
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