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Technical Note
Historical Background
Documentary Series
Special Characteristics of Television Doc.
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What was the only way to see documentary films?
In theatres
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What year was big time TV was born?
In 1948
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What was the first scheduled series in the US Documentaries?
“See It Now”
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What did television documentary allowed viewers to do?
It the viewer-listener to go to the refrigerator, or vacuum the living room and do whatever they needed without missing much.
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Where were most documentaries screened in that time?
IN THEATRES
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What became the norm for television documentaries?
16mm production
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What was PBS know as in 1953?
NET
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What films maintained a consistent structural & stylistic characteristic in format?
See it Now & March of TIme
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What did television documentaries centered on?
Not only on individuals but on values rather than material concerns.
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What time period were the ‘Golden Years’?
1951-’71
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How did television impacted documentaries?
It allowed more documentaries to be shown to larger audiences than before.
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True/False : ’The World at War’ produced a 26 part documentary series about WWII
True
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What were the films that attracted most attention?
>>’Nightmare in Red’ (1955) >>’The Twisted Cross’ (1956) >>’The Real West’ (1961)
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Were the films transmitted right away. What did they have to do to transmit them to television?
Due to the technology, celebrities were filmed forehand and the films were fled to New York to get edited before transmitting them.
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What does BBC stand for?
British Broadcasting Corporation
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In what year were films available for rental & purchase?
1930's
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What was BBCᾼs first major documentary series? Who produce it?
A special inquiry produced by Norman Swallow
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What was Project XX & Victory At Sea devoted to?
Were devoted to recreating aspects of the history of the 20th century using existing
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Who were the auteur of television?
Producers, writers and commentators..
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Who produced the BBC’s first major documentary series?
Norman Swallow
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How did WWII took advantage of television documentaries?
WWII caused an explosion on films to use it to educate and inform people about it
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What did Scottish TV produced for John Grierson?
A programme devoted to documentary and experimental shorts
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Why was Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame” celebrated in 1960.?
Examined exploitation & hardships suffered by migrant agricultural workers
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3 major types of documentaries predominated throughout the 1950s and 1960s
1.) Something very interesting 2.)Historical and nostalgic subjects 3.)Human Interest(reality series)
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Who was considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film?
John Grierson