Era Director, Documentary, year, country and Style Technology

18th Centaury

The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory).

Very little technology was used because of there not being any time of technology equipment around in these time of daysEach film is 17 meters long, which, when hand cranked through a projector, runs approximately 50 seconds

1910 Frank Hurley's ‘’moving pictures“, France, about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

technological limitations: cameras could hold only very small amounts of film

1920 Frank Hurley's documentary film: ‘In the Land of the Head Hunters’ Exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Many of the first films are a minute or less in length. The earliest forms of films were made by Auguste and Louis Lumivrre.

1930 Pare Lorenz, The Plow That Broke the Plains, 1934. is a short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl

 

1940  Prelude to war (1942)It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War IIDirector: Frank Capra’s

 

1950  Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment (1950)

 Newly developed, lightweight, hand-held cameras with synchronized sound. Sets and props are never used and most films are shot on

location1960  Robert Drew, Primary, 1960  

1970  Alan and Susan Raymond, An American Family, 1973  

1980  Ken Burns, The Civil War, 1984  

1990  The Blair Witch Project, 1999  

2000  The Ballad of Rambling' JackWith the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage.