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Documentary film Feb 5

Montage, the juxtapositions of different images on pieces or frames of film, can in itself create meaning.

The expanded technological resources of film had an aesthetic and moral result.

There is an opening sequence of a documentary about Lillian Hellman in which the phrases from several interviews are merged into shots of several speakers who seem to be contributing to one succinct statement about the film’s subject. The film has thus created a dialogue between the speakers that in fact never occurred. Is such a film dishonest.

Whether we watch a documentary about a war or a biography of a famous figure, we presume that we are absorbing a presentation of fact. Of course, documentaries are no such thing.

The Lumiere brothers’ thanks in large part to their timing have a certain sense of truth to their films.

After watching the Lumiere Brothers Films, I was a tad bored but impressed. Within each of the 50 second long films a lot of action would take place. In some we actually were able to view 2 or 3 layers of different actions going on within the same 50-second film. This created great depth and respect for the visual content.

The films were only fifty seconds long and they were often unscripted, thus making them look simple and uninteresting, but for the Lumiere brothers it was a breakthrough that changed how we view ourselves and other societies.

It was so interesting to see the progression of camera techniques they [the Lumiere brothers] discovered and how often they are used.

DMU Timestamp: December 16, 2015 19:12





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