American Cinematographer - October 1968 - 96

CINE VERITE'
Continued from Page 754

that was pure cinema verite-or, as

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films

using

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cinema verite approach, you have per¬

D.

A.

who

Pennebaker

are

or

seen

men as Richard

said

counterparts

and

to

be

of

Robert

the

the

articles
Leacock,
Drew

New

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Like

anything

new

involving

tech¬

nique, method or style in almost any
field, the advocates of cinema verite
didn't set out to

do something

new

and different. They set out to solve a
problem
critics

and

said,

when
"You

they finished
have

done

the

some¬

thing new and different in film-making
and the best label we can devise to
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cinema verite."
Some critics consider it merely an
up-dating

of the standard

Documen¬

tary. But no matter what you call it, it
is still a method.
How do you do it?
The method
most

makes use of the al¬

unlimited

flexibility of the

new

16mm self-blimped cameras, the easily-portable, high-quality sound record¬
ing

equipment,

light-weight

the

lighting

high - intensity,
equipment

and

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discovered

that

by

being able to be on the scene and
not be restricted

by heavy,

hard-to-

move equipment, he was able to pho-

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