A Documentary overview
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Ethnography
He also wanted to
avoid the dramatised
narratives and
adventure stories that
were seen in other
‘ethnographic’ work.
Voyage au Congo, (1927) avoided the stories of the filmmakers,
tried to show the people on their own terms, and even used long
lenses to maintain objective distance. It is seen as a highly influential
work in the development of ethnographic filmmaking.
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