This definition would exclude most documentaries made before the late 50s,
including the films produced by John Grierson, who invented the term.
>I've always understood 'documentary' to mean events/objects
>photographed or filmed actually undergoing the events that
>are being represented, rather than undergoing events as if
>they were actually happening. This does not include staging
>re-enactments, or anything similar. "Reconstructions" are,
>well, *difficult" for me to accept as documentary.
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