Man with the Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Dziga Vertov. The film follows a cameraman around various cities, intercutting his footage with footage of him filming and footage of a woman editing; it features a number of cinematic techniques commonly thought to have been created later: for instance, it features (among others), double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screen, Dutch angles, extreme closeups, footage played backwards, and a self-reflexive storyline. The film also features a few obvious stagings, for which Vertov was criticized: e.g. 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 reversed shot of the chess pieces being unswept to the center of the board.
The film, originally released in 1929, was accompanied on site by various music; it was re-released in 1996 with a new soundtrack performed by the Alloy Orchestra, based on notes left by Vertov.