“Documentary is the creative treatment of actuality.”
- John Grierson, Cinema Quarterly 22.1, 8.
“Documentary defines not subject or style, but approach. … Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsmanship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put.”
-Paul Rotha, Cinema Quarterly, 2.2, 78.
“A non-fiction text using ‘actuality’ [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Some of the definitions for documentary
Posted in MI1 on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
history of doco in Aus
Posted in MI1 on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pre-1900, The French used the term documentary to refer to any non-fiction films, especially for travelogues and instructional films. The earliest non-fiction moving pictures were single-shot moments with a minute or less than a minute length of a train entering a station or a boat docking or a factory of people getting off work. Due [...]
Websites, which broadcast or distribute films online
Posted in MI1 on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
¬There are 15 Websites, which broadcast or distribute films online.
# ABC Online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ABC Online provides a diverse range of information, entertainment and interaction drawing on the ABC’s television, radio and other production activities. Content includes daily news updates, program guides and highlights, youth, children’s, education, science, arts and culture, information for program makers [...]
