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What is a Documentary?
Dictionary definition:
“A film or television or radio programme that provides a factual report
on a particular subject.”
The history:
Documentaries are essentially the earliest / first form of film making,
when film camera were first invented, the videographer would go out
and film an event with a team / crew of people to help him, they would
film things such as, boats being launched for the first time out of the
docs. They did this to have a physical record and preservation of how
things were done. The term documentary was coined by, “Scottish
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educator who had studied in the United States, adapted t”e term in the
mid-1920s from the French word documentaire.”.