Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Name: Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Description: One day in a Soviet city, from waking to nightfall, captured by a cameraman who runs, climbs and lies under trams to get the shot. No actors, no titles, no story — just split screens, freeze frames, stop motion and dizzying cutting that shows you the machinery of filmmaking while it films.

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1929 · 1h 8m · Documentaries

Directed by Dziga Vertov

public domain

US public domain — published 1929; the maximum US term of 95 years from publication expired on 1 January 2025.

One day in a Soviet city, from waking to nightfall, captured by a cameraman who runs, climbs and lies under trams to get the shot. No actors, no titles, no story — just split screens, freeze frames, stop motion and dizzying cutting that shows you the machinery of filmmaking while it films.

A ninety-year-old film about how films are made that still looks a decade ahead of whatever you watched last night.

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