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A slim volume of 176 pages with an original paperback price of $1.95, Jay Leyda's Films Beget Films: A Study of the Compilation Film (1964) remains one of the most insightful, stimulating books on the compilation film yet written.1 (Used copies now sell for $38.) The initial champions of documentary-Dziga Vertov, John Grierson, Paul Rotha, and others-stressed the creative treatment of reality, or as Rotha put it, documentary film involved a "dramatic statement of facts."2 Editing was a pivotal part of this treatment, as was reenactment, but reusing found footage was not. Found footage, already understood as a rapidly accumulating resource, simply did not have the immediacy of freshly recorded material, be it staged, reenacted, or caught on the fly. And with the technological innovations of the early 1960s that made capturing the encounter of filmmaker and subject in the moment of filming a defining act for documentary-be it in an observational or participatory mode-the idea of compiling new films from old, despite Esther Schub's remarkable example,3 remained a largely neglected, secondary consideration. In that sense, Louis Marcorelles's Living Cinema: New Directions in Contemporar

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Author

Nichols,

Publisher

Indiana University Press (ISSN 0892-2160)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)