Rodakiewicz made the 1931 experimental documentary Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements.
It structures visual elements such as smoke, water, and plants into an abstract montage.
[2] He considered adding a soundtrack but decided against it, feeling it would be redundant to the montage.
[3] The Amateur Cinema League named it one of the ten best films of 1932, calling it "beautiful, exciting, workmanlike and distinguished.
[1] Rodakiewicz married twice, first to poet and ranch ownder Marie Tudor Garland and second to Peggy Bok.