[a].
Documentary film began in the last years of the nineteenth century
with the first films ever projected, and it can take many forms. It can be
a trip to exotic lands and lifestyles, as was Nanook of the North (1922). It
rainy day,
can be a visual poem, such as Joris Ivens's Rain (1929)—a story about a
is set to a piece of classical music, in which the storm echoes
the structure of the music. It can be an artful piece of propaganda.
[b]
[c].
Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who proclaimed that fiction cinema was
poisonous and dying and that documentary film was the future, made Man
[d].
[e]
with a Movie Camera (1929) as propaganda both for a political regime
and for a film style.
