Britain through a lens Pt1 - Birth of British documentary
From this documentary I got to learn a few things: Documentary in Britain had not really been explored until the late 1920s and early 30s and had not received any funding whilst in other countries there were the likes of Robert Flaherty or Eisenstein so in that case Britain was behind. the idea was to partner with big business and government to create films about life to keep the spirit of togetherness in Britain. 1941s 'Listen to Britain' is considered one of the early masterpieces from this era. It presented an authentic truth of British people without as voiceover to sway opinion in some way, it allowed the viewer to create their own vision of what the story is. Despite being presented as very authentic it was a piece of government propaganda to encourage people to stick together during the war effort however it s an example of a documentary that was not influenced despite being a propaganda tool. It was one of many created by the 'British documentary movement' whi