Mass Media blog entry 4 and a half

I watched The Man with the Movie Camera yesterday.  Three reactions:

  1.  The movie is a masterpiece of montage,
  2.  A split screen shot with opposite Dutch angles in the two sides is a creepy thing, and
  3.  I think Leni Riefenstahl in the nineteen thirties did even more effective work in this direction (i.e. in propaganda documentaries).

Here's Colour Record No. 322, Side A: