Here's a cool Soviet avant-garde silent movie released in 1929: Man with a Movie Camera / Человек с киноаппаратом by Dziga Vertov (aka David Kaufman), Elizaveta Svilova (editor), and Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (cinematographer).
Just about everything we've ever seen in cinema is here as far as angles, shots and imaginative use of motion pictures, or at least everything possible without the aid of computerized special effects. Worth seeing for the technical effort alone, it also provides a frenetic look at modern life. There's very little in it we wouldn't recognize in life, even now in the 21st century. In fact, I saw horses just the other day. Certainly airplanes (albeit less sleek than today's), trams, trains, factories, roadways, sidewalks, park benches, buildings, fashion styles and accoutrements, sewing machines, typewriters, telephones, coal miners, smoking chimney stacks, motorcycles, carts, buses, cars, construction sites, municipal water, cameras, hats, luggage, telephone poles, baskets, scarves, shutters, trees, water fountains, glasses, elevators and lots of movement.
Today's Rune: Fertility.
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our coming generations will have an unprecedented chance to evaluate change over time because of so much being videotaped or filmed. Should be interesting for future historians.
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