1920s Flappers in Odessa - Former USSR | 1929 AI Enhanced 60fps
The streets, beaches and night life of Roaring Twenties Odessa.
For some more affluent women, there was fashion, parties, bobbed hair, makeup and the ubiquitous cloche hat so popular with girls across the globe in the 1920’s.
The position and roles of women in the USSR, in principle at least, were equal to men under the Soviet Constitution. The reality for the vast majority was very different. Millions ended up in gulags and a totalitarian system remained in place until the late 80’s.
This is an AI enhanced and upscaled edit from the classic 1929 documentary “Man with a Movie Camera.“
Filmed by Mikhail Kaufman. Directed by Dziga Vertov ( his brother) and edited by Elizaveta Svilova.
Famous for its range of cinematic techniques Vertov and Svilova pioneered. Multiple exposure, fast and slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, etc.
In no way, do we wish to detract from the original film but we felt that Kaufmans cinematography deserved a little