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Documentaries and TV Pt. 2• Television from 1998 to 2008• More channels more opportunities• Technology and smaller budgets• Economics of film making• First a look back• A follow-up to the Robert Drew lecture before
the New Year Break
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Robert Drew• 1961 - “The Reason many docs
• Are dull is because traditionally they have been little more than ILLUSTRATED LECTURES.”
• Drew in TV wanted to change that tradition
• Traditional TV resisted
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Robert Drew• “Real life never got out of the film. never came to the
television set. We [must] drop ‘word logic,’ find a dramatic logic in which things really happen. If we could do that we would have a whole new basis for
a new journalism. It’s hard to define. But … it would be a theater without actors. Plays without
playwrights. Reporting without summary & opinion. The ability to look in on people’s lives at crucial times
from which you could deduce certain things and see a kind of truth that can only be gotten by personal experience. In order to do that we need to re-engineer the equipment and style of film making….”
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In America: Change at the Big Three US Networks
• 1988 ABC “Close Up” & others • shut down• public service requirement diminishes• Staged Reality shows develop• Documentaries become multi-subject
magazine shows or long form programs of a more sensational nature – focusing often on crime or celebrities
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American TV Networks• CBS Sixty Minutes• ABC Prime Time• 20/20• NBC Dateline• Magazines• Have replaced the TV documentary
form at traditional US networks
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TV Documentaries Today• In America• Public Service Broadcasting commissions
much of the best documentary making• Plus Cable Television airs many films HBO, Canada’s Documentary Channel CNN, Discovery Channel, Nat-Geo,
Sundance, History Channel, A and E, others
• At PBS – Frontline – worth noting
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PBS Series• “Frontline”: - variety, traditional • Sometimes controversial• “The Jesus Factor” 2004• International Subjects• Independent Series
• “China from the Inside”[2006] (in 4 parts ) politics, women, pollution, justice
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
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Range of BBC TV docs• Index to BBC Docs –
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/
• BBC produces dozens of documentary films each year. Styles differ. Often multi-part in the tradition of “Civilisation” (1969)
• Sometimes cultural but more often topical or investigative - still traditional style
• [show excerpt “New Al Qaeda” (2005)]
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British Documentaries• Arguably more attention paid to long form
non fiction film on Television in Britain than in America
• Channel Four London archives• http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/a_to_z.html
• More than 30 British films on line from 1906 to 2001.
• A powerful one in 1995• Dying Rooms http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/the_dying_room_player.html
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Cable TV makes possible more graphic films
• VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED• Two films on similar topic – Iraq War• CNN – Combat Hospital (2006)
• HBO – “Baghdad ER” (2006) veteran film maker Jon Alpert HBO • www.hbo.com/docs
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POV: Docs with clear political agendas
• Ex: Robert Greenwald American political documentaries “Outfoxed” (2004) “Iraq for Sale” (2006)
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Beyond TVDocumentary Distribution
• Some experts predict DVD, e-cinema and the Internet will replace Broadcast TV or theatres/film festivals for documentary distribution.
• Interview with Robert Greenwald. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kd0L3fhG4w
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Next Week• Elements of Style• Some very original film makers• Ken Burns• Errol Morris• Nick Broomfield • February 29 – Cinema Verite’• Thank you
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Footnote:
See ABC News Report about Greenwald and “Iraq for Sale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGPLchIl6p4