Era After World War ( History of Documentary Film )

In the era after the post-Second World War, the development of documentary filmexperience a fairly significant change. Increasingly rare documentary film playing intheaters and the studios began to cut production. The growing popularity of televisionmade the new market for documentary films. Senior documentary filmmakers, likeFlaherty, Vertov, and Grierson is no longer productive as the first time. Cinematographer-new filmmakers began to emerge and is supported by the present condition of world peace more secure and facilitate their films are knowninternationally. One tendency is visible is the documentary genre with more personaland more sophisticated camera technology that helps them perform a variety oftechnical innovations. The theme of the documentary even more widespread and morespecific, such as social observation, expedition and exploration, coverage ofsignificant events, ethnography, art, culture and so forth.



Swedish filmmaker, Arne Sucksdorff use telephoto lenses and hidden cameras torecord wildlife in The Great Adventure (1954); Oceanografer Jeacques Cousteaudocumentaries produced several series of marine life, such as The Silent World(1954); Observation of the cities was through the work of Frank Stauffacher, Sausalito(1948) and Francis Thompson, NY, NY (1957). Following the exotic style Flaherty, JohnMarshall produced The Hunters (1956) take a place in the desert Kalihari in Africa.Then Robert Gardner producing one film anthropological importance, Dead Birds(1963) which describes the Dani tribe in Indonesia with the ritual of war. In France,some influential filmmakers like Alan Resnais, Georges Franju, and Chris Marker is more focused on the arts and culture. Resnais stuck out his name after his film, VanGogh (1948) won awards in Venice and an Academy Award. Franju produced severalinfluential documentary films such as Blood of the Beast (1948) and Hotel desInvalides (1951). While Marker produces Sunday in Peking (1956) and Letter fromSiberia (1958).