Man With a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, 1929

I chose this still from Man with a Movie camera because it exhibits one of the first uses of the split screen. In the film, many other new techniques are explored, such as stop motion animation. This split screen still also is a good shot of street life in Russia- it gives the audience a glimpse of what life in Russia was like at the end of the 1920's.