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Drew, a reporter for Life Magazine, theorized—while a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1955—about filmmaking that used candid footage to present news. Using the shoulder-held, synchronized-sound camera newly invented by his associates Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, he turned theoretical writing into 16mm film. Condensed to 26 minutes and relegated to local stations owned by the Time-Life corporation, Primary was a commercial flop, but its frank and intimate portrayal of political maneuvering and its use of new technology made cinematic history...
...Alexandra Pelosi’s Journeys With George persisted in this vein of candid impartiality, depicting then-presidential candidate George W. Bush as alternately savvy and befuddled and his horde of media followers as alternately hardy and sycophantic...
...current spate of political films eschews extensive candid recording in favor of manipulative editing and staged interactions, and prefers unambiguous argument to quiet observation. Harvard Film Archive programmer Ted Barron notes that such works often offer more raw passion than analysis...
...Midterm elections in 1974 left the party with 43 fewer House seats (down to a third of the chamber), 6 fewer governorships (down to only 12), and 21 percent fewer state legislators. Robert Teeter, a Detroit pollster hired then by the Republican National Committee to survey the wreckage, was candid in his report: “We are no longer a minority party. We have achieved the status of a minor party...
...thing a camera does superbly is to seize the moment. Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a show of pictures?each made in a wink?which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by France's most distinguished documentary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Unlike artier cameramen, Cartier-Bresson has never felt the need of a studio or a darkroom. He still reloads his Leica under the bed, washes his prints in the bathtub. 'Shooting a picture,' says he, 'is like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before...