Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
• John Pilger
• 1980
• The Silent Death of Cambodia
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dLjaB83
Myths Behind the Miracle (1981)
• A film about Japan
• Directed by Malcolm Clarke
• Written by Jim Laurie
• Again the dreaded
• Committee of 12
• Limiting POV and Limiting expression
• ( excerpt )
Smaller cameras changed the
style and form
• From the mid 1950’s onward
• First in film and then later (1980’s) in
video tape
• Cameras became smaller & smaller
• Less obtrusive
• More flexibility for the documentary film
maker
• Film making followed technology
Early Influential Films &
Filmmakers
• Some film makers experimented
• Robert Drew producing films for NBC,
ABC and Time Magazine moved away
from narrative story telling. In early 60’s
broke convention.
• An experiment that lasted a short time
to be revived only much later
Un-narrated Docs on
Television
• Cinema Verite
• Direct Cinema
• Observational
• “Candid Drama” [Drew]
• No narration
• Resistance by traditional television
Un-narrated Docs on TV
• On Drew -- Susan Hamovitch writes of
“ambivalence of the television industry …”
[toward the un-narrated form]
• “difficulty attracting sponsors for the projects;”
• and most importantly
• “the networks' unshakable preference for
correspondent-hosted or narrated reporting.
…Predictable, containable, effects of a regular
news anchor have prevailed, with exceptions,
over more poetic candid documentary.”
Early NON narrative film making
• Robert Drew
• http://www.drewassociates.net/Main/About.htm
• http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/drewrobert/drewrobert.htm
• “Primary” (1960)
• http://www.sugarpictures.com/News/News_Item10_JFK.html