1. Match the words with their definitions:

1. newsreel a) (v.) to make changes to a film, or to a television or radio programme before it is shown or broadcast

2. edit b) (n.) a news report that was shown in cinemas in the past

3. montage c) (v.) to encourage people to be violent or commit crimes by making them angry or excited

4. footage d) (v.) to place things together or describe things together so that people can see how they are different

5. juxtapose e) (n.) film of a particular subject or event

6. incentive f) (v.) the method of combining several different pictures, pieces of music etc, to create a single piece

7. incite g) (n.) something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this

2. Complete each sentence by choosing the best word for each gap:

1. In Soviet Russia Dziga Vertov had worked in newsreel [editing / montage] and campaigned against fiction film.

2. Vertov’s idea of the composition of reality led to films which lacked a [linear / chronicle] plot.

3. As a mechanical device the camera is perfect: it is [dynamic / agile] and mobile.

4. His film Man with the Movie Camara is probably one of the best documentaries of the 1920s and Vetrov’s [setback / masterpiece].

5. Vertov attacked fiction films and [argued / claimed] that documentary was superior.

6. The edited newsreel [footage / filming] of Dziga Vertov brought forth the documentary style that would characterize Soviet documentaries in the 1920s.

7. All these activities are [captured / captivated] by the camera, which itself plays an active role in the film and generates a second layer of interpretation.

3. Match the words on the left with the words on the right to make expressions. Make your own sentences with these expressions.

tracking with

spatial to

illiterate forth

campaign shot

subject continuity

juxtapose against

bring masses

4. Correct the sentence by reordering the words:

1. Vertov’s COMPOSITION OF THE REALITY LED TO WHICH OF FILMS IDEA a linear plot.

2. Newsreels AND INFORM WERE TO ILLITERATE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATE THE CRUCIAL masses.

3. The influence MOST WAS OUT CLEARLY THE IN WORK GREATEST SOVIET BROUGHT DIRECTOR SERGEI OF THE Eisenstein.

4. Subsequently, PROPAGANDA BE THE FOR CARTOONS USED WOULD purposes.

5. As a mechanical IS THE IS DEVICE AGILE CAMERA IT PERFECT: AND mobile.

6. Agitki illustrated TASKS OF THE WARNED THE WORKERS AND AGAINST MISTAKES IN EDUCATIONAL A HUMOROUS AND manner.

7. All these activities ITSELF CAPTURED ARE THE CAMERA, AN WHICH BY PLAYS ACTIVE ROLE in the film.

5. Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence:

1. Film-trains [were dispatched / dispatched / were being dispatched] to document life in the country and to show newsreels to people.

2. The film cuts to miners [which / who / -] provide the raw material for the electricity that is supplied to the city or to the beach and the club that offer the relaxation after a long work day.

3. Vertov made agitki – short sketches that [would incite / incite / used to incite] social improvements, agitating the population by presenting scenes in a dynamic and fast pace.

4. The fast movement of the camera [does not copy / copies / does not copies] the human eye.

5. All these activities [captured / are captured by / were capture by] the camera, which itself plays an active role in the film and generates a second layer of interpretation.

6. The newsreel footage [was to be / must have been / had to be] filmed from moving trains and cars.

7. In this approach Vertov was not unlike Meyerhold, who saw the actor’s body as a mechanism [to / for / of] execution of movement to express emotion when defining his “biomechanics”.