Man with a movie camera end scene:

Themes: 
- screen in a theatre 
- bourgeoisie ballet - super imposed 
- camera man, w/planes over head, muscular film making 
- soviet montage w/ super imposition (like rodchanko) 
- Juxtaposing muscular film making with the passive watching of ballet on film - bourgeoisie film juxtaposed with the muscular film making, what film should be 
- camera looks like an AA gun 
- what makes the city run - women in labour, split screen - exaggerates this w/split screen, equality in labour + everyone doing there part in industrial Russia to make it run - split screen constructs the frame to exaggerate  the construction on screen 
- superimpositition interlinked 
- fast cuts - the implications of watching the running of the city 
- transport motif, inspiration from futurists which is modernist 
- Bolshoi ballet company HQ beings split and melted, destruction of bourgeoisie 
- on a car filming - muscular filmmaking 
- famous train shot replicated 
- intercut with slivova editing  
- eye in the lens 
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Themes: 
. Muscular filmmaking 
. Industrialisation 


Technical
. intercut 
. split screen
. super imposition 
. high angle 
. birds eye 
. rapid editing (fast cuts) 
. juxtaposition 
. graphic matching 

Artistic: 
. soviet montage 
. ballet dance - classical art 
. muscular film making 
. old culture to new technology 
. Modernism  
. Constructivism 
. Manual labour (the editing) 






. Diegetic audience witness the progression from bourgeoisie ballet to industry 
. Presents ballet w/superimposition 
. then moves on to present women in industry, women's role moving from the classical to the modernist - split screen to exaggerate this - comparable to super imposition 
. Moves on to celebration of transport which is linked with progress, literally moving forward  which becomes rapidly intercut with editing showing film to be interlinked with the rapid progress of industry 
. the train 
. 




In the final scene Vertov uses a diegetic audience for the spectators to identify with, as they witness the progression of women's roles in soviet Russia. The spectators are firstly shown footage of ballet, a traditionally classical and bourgeoisie art form.



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