1. According to Dudley Andrew, Professor of Film Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, the word documentary did not come into use until around 1924.
2. A discussion of film as an art form will follow.
3. "Patrico Guzman Says His Film is Fv2.03>e1>
4. Lewis Jacobs,
The Documentary Tradition From Nanook to Woodstock
(New York, 1971) p. 13.
5. Jay Chapman, "Two Aspects of the City: Cavalcanti and Ruttmann" in
The Documentary Tradition from Nanook to Woodstock,
ed.
Lewis Jacobs (New York, 1971) p.37.
6. NOTE: My students found the abstract forms of this 10-minute film to be very irritating.
7. Dave Kehr, "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City"
,
Capsule by Dave Kehr,
From the Chicago Reader Guide to Movies
http://spacefinder.chicagoreader.com/movies/capsules/00902
8. Anke Gleber, "Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity-In Search of the female Flaneur" in
The Image in Dispute-Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography,
ed. Dudley Andrew (Austin, TX, 1997) p. 66.
9. Chris Dashiell, Dashiell's Flicks The Archives "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City" (Walter Ruttmann, 1927) http://www.cinescene.com/flicks/archivesA-D.htm#berlin#berlin
10. Allen James Thomas, "Berlin: Symphony of a City", by Allan James Thomas Senses of Cinema http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/5/cteq/berlin.html
11. John Grierson, 'First Principles of Documentary', in
Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary
eds., Kevin Macdonald & Mark Cousins (London, 1996)p.100.
Chris Dashiell http://www.cinescene.com/flicks/archivesA-D.htm#berlin#berlin
