Man with a Movie Camera is very simply a film about a man capturing life in the day of the lives of people from Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa. It begins with people waking up, and getting their days started. It also shows what the city looks like while the people sleep, its emptiness. We see the machines in factories not moving. Then, we see how people are the ones which influence progress even though the machine is was creates the result.
Vertov shows us the dizzying pace of life as it has quickened with street cars, machines and people all attempting to get from where they are to where they are going. The director also reveals to the audience quite simply how a camera is used in imagery throughout the film. It allows the public to understand more readily just how these moving pictures are made as the medium was very new at the time of release in 1929.
