A Documentary overview

Footnotes:
7. The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, in Paris, was founded in 1913 by playwright
and critic Jacques Copeau in an attempt to revitalize French theater and is now part
of la ComédieFrançaise.
8. Moana is the second film by Robert Flaherty (US, 1926), shot in Samoa; Earth,
by Alexander Dovzhenko (USSR, 1930) is about collectivization in the Ukraine; and
Turksib (1929) is a Soviet documentary directed by Victor A. Turin about the
construction of a train line through central Asia.
9. Voyage au Congo was a three-volume “journal” by French explorer Jean-
Baptiste Douville, published in 1832, which turned out to be a hoax travelogue. (ie
not the film by Allegret).
Notes from (Grierson, 1932 pp892)
It is hard to find any mention of Allegret by
Grierson at the time. But then there are the
Russians...