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Documentary Film : The use of the Film Medium to Interpret Creatively and in Social Terms the Life of the People as it Exists in Reality

Title

Documentary Film : The use of the Film Medium to Interpret Creatively and in Social Terms the Life of the People as it Exists in Reality

Author

Paul Rotha, Sinclair Road;, and Richard Griffith

Description

The use of the film medium to interpret creatively and in social terms the life of the people as it exists in reality.

"This book contains more ideas and more worthwhile information than is to be found in the whole of the rest of documentary literature, together with a magnificent collection of stills." – Edgar Anstey in the British Film Quarterly

"This is the third edition of a monumental record of achievement so largely and so creditably British that it would be false modesty to resist a show of patriotic pride ..this standard work is splendidly and copiously illustrated?" – Kinematograph Weekly

"A classic work on the evolution of the documentary film." – The Times Literary Supplement

Subject Matter

Filmmaking

Publication Year

1964

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Language

English

Files

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Collection

Citation

“Documentary Film : The use of the Film Medium to Interpret Creatively and in Social Terms the Life of the People as it Exists in Reality,” The Bruce Lee Library Research Project, accessed May 14, 2025, https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/items/show/436.