Initiation to the vocabulary
of film analysis

Superimposition

In Man with a Movie Camera, one sequence shows workers enjoying the leisure activities of good Soviet citizens in a working men’s club.

A - In the following shot, how many filmed shots have been superimposed by the editing?

This excerpt contains 5 shots

Man with a Movie Camera, by Dziga Vertov

Exercise 1

The Lodger

by Alfred Hitchcock

Exercise 2

Man with a Movie Camera

by Dziga Vertov

Exercise 3

The Smiling Madame Beudet

by Germaine Dulac