A Documentary overview
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John Grierson (again)
In 'The First Principles of Documentary' (1932) Grierson
defines ‘Documentary’ further, differentiating between:
'shimmying exoticisms' and 'lower order' 'lecture films' which
have 'value in entertainment, education and propoganda'
and
'documentary proper, ...the only world in which documentary
can hope to achieve the ordinary virtues of an art. Here we
pass from the plain (or fancy) descriptions of natural material,
to arrangements, rearrangements, and creative shapings of it.'
(MacDonald, 1999)
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