British Documentary Movement — focus?
Creative non-fiction blending art and reality
John Grierson — contribution?
Coined 'documentary,' emphasized creative treatment of actuality
Creative treatment of actuality — meaning?
Artistic, subjective approach to portraying real events
Nanook of the North — significance?
Early creative documentary influencing the style
Documentary as art — shift?
From raw recording to expressive, artistic films
Origins of cinema — era?
Late Victorian period in Britain
Public/private spheres — in Victorian society?
Division with limited female visibility in public
Bicycle’s role?
Enabled women’s independence, challenged gender norms
Department stores — significance?
Spaces for women’s social visibility in public
Early instruments — examples?
Magic lantern, thaumatrope, zoetrope, praxinoscope
Kinetoscope — feature?
Individual viewing device for moving images
Cinematograph — innovation?
Projection device for collective cinema experience
First films — example?
Phantom Ride, slapstick shorts
Early cinema — audience?
Shared, interactive, emotional communal responses
Cinema evolution — progress?
From static shots to complex editing techniques
Documentary boundaries — challenge?
Blurring of fact and fiction, staged scenes included
Cinema grammar — development?
From unedited shots to montage and sequencing
Propaganda purpose?
Influence public opinion and reinforce social norms
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1. What was the main consequence of the British Documentary Movement for how cinema represented real events?
2. How would a filmmaker best apply the idea of the British Documentary Movement when making a nonfiction film about real events?
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