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The film also features a few obvious stagings such as the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed (cameras at the time were fairly bulky and loud, and not surreptitious) and the shot of the chess pieces being swept to the center of the board (a shot which was spliced in backwards, causing the pieces to expand outward and stand into position). The film was criticized for both the stagings and its stark experimentation, possibly as a result of its director's frequent assailing of fiction film as a new "opiate of the masses."

The film, originally released in [[1929]], was accompanied in theaters with live music; it was re-released in [[1996]] with a new soundtrack performed by the [[Alloy Orchestra]], based on notes left by Vertov. The original footage was silent; the sound effects (such as sirens, babies crying, crowd noise, etc.) were added afterwards.

It was again re-released in [[2002]] with another new soundtrack performed by the British [[jazz]] and [[electronic]] outfit [[The Cinematic Orchestra]].