Editing Man with a Movie Camera (section)

==Vertov's intentions==
[[Image:Mikhail kaufman on train.jpg|thumb|In this shot, Mikhail Kaufman acts as a cameraman risking his life in search of the best shot]]
Vertov was an early pioneer in documentary film-making during the late 1920s. He belonged to a movement of filmmakers known as the [[kinoks]], or kino-oki (kino-[[eye]]s). Vertov, along with other kino artists declared it their mission to abolish all non-documentary styles of film-making, a radical approach to movie making. Most of Vertov's films were highly controversial, and the kinok movement was despised by many filmmakers.

Vertov's crowning achievement, ''Man with a Movie Camera'', was his response to critics who rejected his previous film, ''[[A Sixth Part of the World]]''. Critics had declared that Vertov's overuse of "[[intertitle]]s" was inconsistent with the film-making style to which the "kinoks" subscribed.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} Working within that context, Vertov dealt with a lot of fear in anticipation of the film's release. He requested a warning to be printed in the Soviet central [[Communist]] newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'', which spoke directly of the film's experimental, controversial nature. Vertov was worried that the film would be either destroyed or ignored by the public.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} Upon the official release of ''Man with a Movie Camera'', Vertov issued a statement at the beginning of the film, which read:
<blockquote>
A real film represents<br />
AN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CINEMATIC COMMUNICATION<br />
Of visual phenomena<br />
WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERTITLES<br />
(a film without intertitles)<br />
WITHOUT THE HELP OF A SCENARIO<br />
(a film without a scenario)<br />
WITHOUT THE HELP OF THEATRE<br />
(a film without actors, without sets, etc.)<br />
This new experimentation work is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature.
</blockquote>

This manifesto echoes an earlier one that Vertov wrote in 1922, in which he disavowed popular films he felt were indebted to literature and theater.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/reviews/vertov.htm |title=Images – ''Man With a Movie Camera'' by Grant Tracey |work=imagesjournal.com |access-date=10 March 2016}}</ref>