Man with a Movie Camera

I never realized how much I sort of liked silent films until I watched "Man with a Movie Camera". In class we talked about early editing and montages, but this film really pushed the envelope for what early film makers could do. The film is essentially a whole bunch of montage clips of the daily lives of humanity. The editing was fantastic; I was blown away as to how they were able to blend two shots together, or the fast cuts from the lady's eye ball and the surroundings around to give a sense of dizziness. The stop motion of the movie theater chairs, and the blocks I think they were, was just as stunning, how they were able to accomplish the moments seamlessly is beyond me. What Lez Keulshov said about cinematography being the organization, construction, and interrelationship between shots was very prevalent in this movie. There was a scene in which a magician I'll call him does some magic tricks and then it cuts to kids looking happy, as if you can indicate that they were enjoying the magic show without the kids even having to be there. Whether the kids were actually there is something I'll never know. I almost feel as if this technique of film editing, the Russian Montage film editing was done for a reason. humanity isn't doing the same things at the same time, so it gives me a sense that all these random montage clips are to indicate that while someone is doing this, someone is doing that and that there are things that we'll never know about happening right now and vice versa. But the scenes all seem to be connected so way or another. For example a scene in which people are going around in a merry-go-round, while interconnecting shots of race cars racing around a track. There's so much to learn from the pioneers who crafted film ethics because they were the ones who started it all, so I'm going to link the movie that we watched in class for anyone who happens to see this and hasn't seen the film, or didn't pay attention in class because I highly recommend watching this master piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkvjWIEcoU