documentary film

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film producer

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British

screenwriter

film director

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Documentary Film Movement

is an anti-aesthetic movement which necessarily sacrifices some personal capacity in 'art' and the pleasure that goes with it.

Documentary was from the beginning ' when we first separated our public purpose theories from those of Flaherty ' an 'anti-aesthetic' movement. We have all, I suppose, sacrificed some personal capacity in 'art' and the pleasant vanity that goes with it. Grierson wrote about the dangers of excessive aestheticism as the bright-eyed enemy, which could at any moment outwit even the most principled documentary filmmaker

1s 2ission is to educate and enlighten individual citizens and render them capable of rational decision-making.

For Grierson, the mission of this new film form was to educate and enlighten individual citizens and render them capable of rational decision-making. (Rosen1993, p. 78)

John Grierson

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