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Man with the Movie Camera
(1929)
on

1998 Image Entertainment edition

Man with the Movie Camera (1929), black & white, 68 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID4589DSDVD, UPC 0-14381-45892-3.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 12 chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 28 October 1998.
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this early DVD edition, originally prepared by David Shepard for release on laserdisc and VHS videotape, reveals a quality presentation that has been transferred from very-good to excellent 35mm preservation elements.

The presentation features an original music score by The Allow Orchestra, and audio commentary by Yuri Tsivian.

 

 

 

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
Other silent era Dziga Vertov films available on DVD home video:
Kino-Eye (1924)

Other Russian silent era films available on DVD home video:
Aelita (1924)
Arsenal (1928)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Bed and Sofa (1927)
By the Law (1926)
The Cameraman’s Revenge and Other Fantastic Tales: Ladislaw Starewicz (1912-1958)
Chess Fever (1925)
Earth (1930)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
The Girl with the Hatbox (1927)
Glumov’s Diary (1923)
Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer (1913-1917)
Mother (1926)
My Grandmother (1929)
October (1928)
Old and New (1929)
Storm Over Asia (1928)
Strike (1924)
Zvenigora (1927)

Other silent era documentaries available on DVD home video:
Chang: A Drama in the Wilderness (1927)
Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925)
In the Land of the War Canoes (1914)
Nanook of the North (1922)
South (1919)
World War I Films of the Silent Era (1916-1917)

About Russian filmmakers:
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)

 
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