Documentary film - Pre-1900. The French used the term to refer to any non-fiction including travelogues and instructional videos. The earliest "moving pictures" were by definition documentary. They were single shots, moments captured on film, whether of a train entering a station, a boat docking, or a factory of people getting off work. Early film (pre-1900) was dominated by the novelty of showing an event. These short films were called actuality films. Very little storytelling took place before the turn of the c ...

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Documentary film, Documentary film - History, Documentary film - Pre-1900, Documentary film - Romanticism, Documentary film - Newsreel tradition, Documentary film - Realist tradition, Documentary film - Propagandist tradition, Documentary film - J. Grierson and D. Vertov, Documentary film - Cinéma vérité, Documentary film - The '60s and '70s, Documentary film - Compilation films, Documentary film - Modern documentaries, Documentary film - Lists of directors and producers of documentaries, Documentary film - Documentary film festivals, Documentary film - Significant institutes dealing with documentary, Documentary film - Literature, Documentary film - Documentaries about documentary filmmakers

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Documentary hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - The hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Background to the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - The modern hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Secondary hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - History of the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Traditional Jewish and Christian beliefs, Documentary hypothesis - Rabbinical biblical criticism, Documentary hypothesis - The Enlightenment, Documentary hypothesis - 19th-Century Theories, Documentary hypothesis - Julius Wellhausen, Documentary hypothesis - Richard Elliot Friedman, Documentary hypothesis - The modern era, Documentary hypothesis - Opponents of the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Debates between non-fundamentalist academics supporting the Documentary Hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Highlighted source text at Wikisource

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"At its best, radio combines the power and immediacy of great documentary films with the intimacy and poetry of a New Yorker-style magazine piece." (Columbia Graduate School of Journalism) "Staring red-eyed at the mirror in front of me, having spent another day and half of the night with my computer, I ask myself fundamental questions: Why radio? Why documentary? Answer: No other medium can provide me with more freedom of creation and investigation. It meets my urgent interest in reality and the desire for a 'musical' expressio ...

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Radio documentary, Radio documentary - Quotes, Radio documentary - Notable radio documentary and feature makers, Radio documentary - Notable resources

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The documentary hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by many historians and academics in the field of linguistics and source criticism that the Five Books of Moses (the Torah) are in fact a combination of documents from different sources rather than authored by one individual. Although the hypothesis is widely accepted (the Vatican itself estimates that 90% of academics in the field of biblical scholarship support it), it has a number of substantial critics, such as conservative, evangelical Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen, but also among critical scholars, ...

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Documentary hypothesis - Debates between non-fundamentalist academics supporting the Documentary Hypothesis
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The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. Academy Award for Documentary Feature - Winners. Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy's rules for eligibility. Due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete. For 1942 the ...

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Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 —November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, and the biggest box-office star of the early sound film era. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio to William H. Gable and Adeline Hershelman. Gable had German ancestry from both sides of his family tree; his maternal grandfather, John Hershelman, was German, as were Gable's paternal great-great-grandparents, Johan Philip Frankenfield and Catharine Haupt. When he was six months old, his sickly Catholic mother had him baptized Roman Catholic. She died when he was ten mon ...

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nergal | Ninh ...

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Beirut (Arabic: بيروت, transliterated Bayrūt - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. Beirut is the home of about 1.8 million people (2.1 million if the surrounding metropolitan areas are included), and is the commercial, banking and financial center of the region. Beirut was known as "The Paris of the East" prior to the civil war because of its cosmopolitan atmosphere. Th ...

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Children's street culture refers the cumulative culture of rhymes, songs, jokes, taboos, games, folklore, and places (e.g., places "known" to be "haunted" or "a den" or "forbidden"), etc. among young children. Collectively, this body of knowledge is passed down from one generation of urban children to the next, and can also be passed between different groups of children (e.g. in the form of crazes, such as making guys for Bonfire Night — see Beck 1984). It is often strongest in urban working class industrial districts, where children are traditionally free to ...

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Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. Carrie Fisher - Early Life. She was born Carrie Frances Fisher in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Eddie Fisher (a well known singer) and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens. She was married to singer Paul Simon but divorced after 11 months. She is currently dating documen ...

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Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957) is a Finnish script writer and film director. Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America. His style has been influenced a lot by such directors as Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Robert Bresson, as he relies on low-key acting and simple cinematic storytelling to get his message(s) across. His movies have a unique downplayed ...

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Aaron (אַהֲרֹן, a word meaning "bearer of martyrs" in Hebrew (perhaps also, or instead, related to the Egyptian "Aha Rw," "Warrior Lion"), Standard Hebrew Aharon, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAhărōn), was one of two brothers who play a unique part in the history of the Hebrew people. He was the elder son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi; Moses, the other son, being three years younger, and Miriam, their sister, several years older (Exodus 2:4; Exodus 6:16 ff.; Numbers 33:39). Aaron was the great-grandson o ...

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Fundamentalist Jews and Christians reject the documentary hypothesis entirely and accept the traditional view that the whole Torah is essentially the work of Moses. Over the last century, an entire literature has developed within conservative scholarship and religious communities dedicated to the refutation of higher biblical criticism in general and the documentary hypothesis in particular. For most Orthodox Jews and many conservative Christians, the divine origins of the five books of Moses in its entirety is accepted as a given. To ...

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Documentary hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - The hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Background to the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - The modern hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Secondary hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - History of the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Traditional Jewish and Christian beliefs, Documentary hypothesis - Rabbinical biblical criticism, Documentary hypothesis - The Enlightenment, Documentary hypothesis - 19th-Century Theories, Documentary hypothesis - Julius Wellhausen, Documentary hypothesis - Richard Elliot Friedman, Documentary hypothesis - The modern era, Documentary hypothesis - Opponents of the hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Debates between non-fundamentalist academics supporting the Documentary Hypothesis, Documentary hypothesis - Highlighted source text at Wikisource

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Documentary hypothesis - Traditional Jewish and Christian beliefs. The traditional Jewish view is that God revealed his will to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal fashion. This dictation is said to have been exactly transcribed by Moses. Based on the Talmud (tractate Git. 60a), some believe that the Torah may have been given piece-by-piece over the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the desert. The Pentateuch itself does not imply as much. The expression "God said to Moses" shows only the Divine ...

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The tone of the documentary begins with low key revelations of NASA working closely with Hollywood at the time of the Moon landings. Over the course of the tale, Karel postulates that not only did Kubrick help the USA fake the moon landings but that he was eventually killed by the CIA to cover up the truth. First hand testimony backing these claims come from Rumsfeld and Dr. Kissinger, which lend credence to the story. It is finally revealed that this is a mockumentary as the end credits roll over a montage of blooper reels, with the ...

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Dark Side of the Moon documentary, Dark Side of the Moon documentary - Plot summary, Dark Side of the Moon documentary - Tricks

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Earlier examples of Esperanto in film consist mainly of old newsreel and documentary footage, some dating back as early as 1911, when the seventh international Esperanto conference was held in Antwerp, Belgium. The funeral of Esperanto creator L. L. Zamenhof in 1917 was filmed. And according some sources, French cinema pioneer Leon Ernest Gaumont wanted to make a film about Esperanto to showcase a Sync Sound process he had developed, but the project was curt ...

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Burns's documentaries include: Brooklyn Bridge, in 1981 The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God, in 1984 The Statue of Liberty, in 1985 Huey Long, in 1985 Congress, in 1988 Thomas Hart Benton, in 1988 The Civil War, in 1990 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, in 1991 Baseball, in 1994 The West, in 1996< ...

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Colorization is sometimes used on documentary programmes. The Beatles Anthology TV show colorizes some footage of the band, most notably the performance of "All You Need Is Love" from the TV special Our World (1967). In the documentary this scene begins in its original black and white before dissolving into seemingly realistic, psychedelic color. [9] In this case the color design was based on stills taken at the same time, so in a sense the color is "real", yet the use of artificial color in a document ...

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Film colorization, Film colorization - Techniques, Film colorization - Partial colorization, Film colorization - Restoration, Film colorization - Integration, Film colorization - Entertainment make-overs, Film colorization - Documentary make-overs, Film colorization - Footnotes

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In 2000 Ritter made a documentary In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq. Associated Press reported: "Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marine intelligence officer, says in the 90-minute documentary that he did not provoke the confrontation the Americans wanted in March 1998, but fellow inspector Roger Hill (an Australian) did have a confrontation in December of that year. Days later, chief U.N. inspector Richard Butler declared that Iraq was not cooperating with weapons inspectors and the United S ...

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Scott Ritter, Scott Ritter - Military background, Scott Ritter - Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter - Criticism of Ritter, Scott Ritter - Documentary, Scott Ritter - Ritter's Legal Problems, Scott Ritter - Statement on U.S. - Iran Policy, Scott Ritter - Bibliography

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Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which humourously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Edinburgh and Inverness. At the Kyle of Lochalsh, Palin bought the station's long metal platform sign and is seen lugging it back to London with him. A second journey for the same series of Michael's, in 1994, went through Ireland titled "Derry to Kerry ...

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Michael Palin, Michael Palin - Early career, Michael Palin - Monty Python, Michael Palin - Other Performances, Michael Palin - Documentaries, Michael Palin - Trivia

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