Tbagjimmy t1_jbnx843 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 12:03 PM

Don't want to diminish what the people who worked on this did but is editing newsclips with zero narration really a documentary?

noyoto t1_jbnzb25 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 12:25 PM

I think it suffices. It'd be silly to disqualify it as it is now, but to consider it a documentary if a narrator mentioned some blatantly obvious things throughout the footage.

Granted they could have just called it 'news footage montage' and it'd be a clearer description (but less impressive).

Tbagjimmy t1_jbnzh6y wrote on March 10, 2023 at 12:27 PM

True, they still are telling a story.

I guess I'm the one who is out of touch. 😞

ecodemo t1_jbolr6k wrote on March 10, 2023 at 3:21 PM

You have to go watch Man with a Movie Camera.

Greatest documentary ever, described by its director as

>AN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CINEMATIC COMMUNICATION Of visual phenomena WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERTITLES (a film without intertitles) WITHOUT THE HELP OF A SCENARIO (a film without a scenario) WITHOUT THE HELP OF THEATRE (a film without actors, without sets, etc.) This new experimentation work by Kino-Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_a_Movie_Camera

Remastered on yt https://youtu.be/xTAlmWEjyr0