Documentary Film (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Documentary Film (Classic Reprint) written by Paul Rotha and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Documentary Film Juncture becomes a matter for desperate choice. The film may be used for propaganda and, so focused are we on purposes these days, that all is propaganda. But which? If the film lends its dramatic aid to any one of these powers which have religious mania in them and drive men mad, it is propaganda of the devil. If the film is devoted to saying how men live and should live and where the creative forces that fulfil men's honest needs reside, then it is propaganda that has its roots in a continuing reality and is capable of beauty. Some will take the path of partisan excitement. We shall have pretty pictures of pennants flying and guns pop ping and rhetoric, the jingling harness of expression, will be the keynote of their films. Others will resist this defeat. The best work the documentary film has done has been to describe the work of workmen, the work of scientists and organisers in peace time pur suits, and the great work of social reconstruction which is going on even while the maniac armies march over us. These others will attempt to maintain this progress, so that, perhaps, when the armies have passed, a hand ful of grain will be left to cast into the battered ground. They will insist that the propagation of ideas must not depart from the deeper needs of public education; and, keeping their roots in this continuing reality, they can not fail, sometimes, to be poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.