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Berlin--Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Grosstadt)

• 1927 ----- b & w ----- 70 min ----- vhs
• (Directed by Walter Ruttmann) This is a "symphonic documentary" which attempts to capture the mood of a city during a day. It opens at dawn on a late spring day and proceeds to midnight. Unique in the German cinema, it is a marvel of documentary montage, wedding avant-garde style to feature filmmaking. (And two years before Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.)
• Topics: (Cities and Towns, History: European, Motion Pictures: History)

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