The phrase "a straightforward record of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a clear and uncomplicated account or documentation of events, facts, or information.
Example: "The report serves as a straightforward record of the project's progress and outcomes."
Alternatives: "a clear account of" or "an unambiguous documentation of".
Even more ambitious as filmmaking, involving further innovations — powerful telephoto lenses, underwater cameras — "Olympia" was no more a straightforward record of events than "Triumph of the Will".
Not content with a straightforward record of a stage production, Bettina Ehrhardt's film whirls us into the orchestra pit, backstage and even into the theatre foyers during its course.
The bulk of Prager's diary of that journey is a straightforward record of meals and sightseeing, interspersed with Prager's meditations about her own childhood in Taiwan and the differences between Westerners and the Chinese.
Nanook and his family were real, but the film is not a straightforward recording of their everyday life: they amiably enacted some of it for Flaherty's cameras.
In Ms. Clyne's "Shadow of the Words," built around a straightforward, recorded reading of Baudelaire's "Harmonies du Soir" (the electronic track also includes a hefty, rumbling bass line), the quartet writing is atmospheric and flexible, with acerbic, raucous stretches morphing into surprisingly traditional passages, including a lilting waltz.
A straightforward recording that makes no pretense to art, "La Fille Mal Gardée" will likely be of interest only to balletomanes and scholars.
Most of Mr. Randall's images are straightforward records of interesting funerary art and architecture.
In the upper-class English slave owner's personal writings, she read straightforward records of his daily life.
It's a straightforward film recording of a performance by the Bunraku Ensemble of Osaka, Japan's justly acclaimed doll theater that played limited engagements at the New York City Center in 1966 and 1973.
His account has been dismissed as fanciful, while a more straightforward record was given by one of his injured crewmen.
