Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Birth of the Documentary




In the Land of the Headhunters (1914)
by Edwin S. Curtis
Watch the movie... (follow link, scroll down)

Materials at the Library of Congress
Curtis Collection at Northwestern University



Nanook of the North (1922)
by Robert J. Flaherty
1 hr 18 min 25 sec
Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.



Direct Link





Кино-глаз (Kino Glaz, Cinema Eye)
Directed by Dziga Vertov



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Monday, November 27, 2006

Video Journalism at Newspapers

This is a list of direct links to newspapers offering staff-produced journalistic news videos. This is a work in progress and should not be considered complete. Feel free to send me your new and updated links. Thanks.