Take notes for each of the following topics. A minimum of 3 sentences per topic.
I . History of Documentary Film
A. Pre-1900-
The term documentary was used to refer to any notifications films. An earlier definition was moving pictures which they were a single shot movements caught in a picture. The short films were actually called short films. Many of the short films were less than a minute long.
B. 1900–1920-
Travelogue were known as scenics which were also known as the most popular films in the year. An important early film was In the Land of the Head Hunters. Which embraced it privitism and exoticism, which they enacted the life of the Native Americans. Also early color motion pictures were created. They were called kinemacolor and prizmacolor.
C. 1920s-
1) Romanticism- Robert J. Flaherty's in 1922 he made a film that embraced romanticism. Robert filmed millions of romantic films during this period. For his films he did not allow them shoot nearby with a shotgun. Instead he had them use a harpoon.
2)The city symphony- It focused on humans and human made environments. It was included in a film so called "city symphony ." Which the films presented humans as products of the environment.
3) Kino-Pravda- Dziga Vertov was central to the Soviet Pravda. Vertov believed that the camera with shot counter lenses and more was too slow for motion. That it could render more accurately than the human eye.
4) Newsreel tradition- The Newsreel was a really important to documentary films. The newsreel were sometimes staged, but were usually re-enacted. For example most of the battle footage was mostly staged.
D. 1920s–1940s- One of the propagandist was to give the audience a point. One of the films was called is Triumph of the wall. Which was made by Leni Riehfenstah. It was comiisoned by Hitler.
E. 1950s–1970s-
1) Cinéma-vérité- Cinema was dependent on some technical advances in order to exist. Shooting on location with smaller crews would also happen in French New Wave. Filmmakers were taking advantage of small advances. All though the terms were , they were always important.
2) Political weapons- In the 1960s and in the 1970s the political weapons were against the neocolonialism and capyilism. Also it inspired Latin America and influenced A whole generation of filmmakers.
3) Modern documentaries- The film becomes more successful in the theraical. Compared to dramatic films
4) Documentaries without words-
