In 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from Russian Civil War, Vertov offered him to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman.
Ve dvacátých letech, poté, co se Michail Kaufman vrátil z Ruské občanské války, mu Vertov nabídl účast v seriálu Kino-Pravda jako kameraman.