- 'Acualities' (e.g. People, places, time...)
- Example: 'Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat by The Lumiere Brothers (1895):
The earliest films were documents - Actuality.
Flaherty
Defined as Documentary
Kino-Pravda = Vertov's concept of 'film truth'
Working mainly throughout the 1920's.
British Documentary Movement
- The power to discover unknown worlds and re-discover lost ones
- Defined it as the 'creative treatment of actuality'
- Coined the term 'Documentary'
- Factual and useful
- "The GPO Film Unit (1933 – 1940) had the pre-mass communications role of promoting the services of Britain’s post office, but also became a hot-bed of experimentation in sound and image when film was still a relatively new medium. GPO filmmakers such as Len Lye, Lotte Reininger and Norman McLaren remain the most renowned experimental animators in film history. We hope you enjoy this delightful selection."1.
- Can be known as 'observational cinema'
- A style of Documentary filmmaking, invented by Jean Rouch
- Examples: 'Chronique d'un été' (France, 1961), 'Don't Look Back' (1967) D.A. Pennebaker, 'Salesman' (1968) Albert and David Maysles
References:
1.http://thespace.org/items/e0000gts?t=77zh
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