1. Man With a Movie Camera

2. Context – post revolution
Propaganda – presentation of ideal soviet community
Lenin: importance of cinema in establishing socialism
Constructivism & Rodchenko as influence
Agit trains and newsreel
Other filmmakers: Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin
Kuleshov effect
Vertov & Kino Eye
Cinematic achievements in film

3. Kino-Pravda checklist of essentials for a Kino-Eye filmmaker:
1.  rapid means of transport 2.  highly sensitive film stock 3.  light handheld film cameras 4.  equally light lighting equipment 5.  a crew of super-swift cinema reporters (etc)

4. Experimentation

5. The film drama is the Opium of the people…down with Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
—Dziga Vertov

6. Dynamic composition

7. The primacy of the camera

8. Man and machine in harmony

9. Comrades in both work and play – emphasis on the individual as part of a whole

10. The process of filmmaking

11. The act of spectating