Automatically constructing a complete documentary or educational film from scattered pieces of images and knowledge is a significant challenge.
A nearly complete documentary, "Discovering Dave Spirit Captureded in Clay," from Scrapbook Video Productions in Augusta, Ga., is based partly on a smashed 1862 Drake pot that the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program excavated near Augusta.
No theatrical distributor or broadcaster has been announced for "West of Memphis," but the film is a strong candidate next year for major film festivals, like Sundance, which has not yet unveiled its complete documentary lineup.
Just last year, though, George R. Whyte published in paperback his remarkably complete documentary compendium, "The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History" (Palgrave-Macmillan; $37); the best extended narrative in English is still Michael Burns's account in "Dreyfus: A Family Affair," published back in 1991.
Drawing on the vast and largely complete documentary record of the escalating U.S. involvement in Indochina from 1961 to 1965, three historians Orrin Schwab, Frederik Logevall, and now David Kaiser have recently examined American policy from divergent perspectives.
That would be Michael Moore, who was able to shoot and edit a complete documentary, "Where to Invade Next," without word getting out.
Stay tuned for the complete documentary about the rise of Emicida, which will debut on our site in the coming weeks.
"A Ballerina's Tale" is far from an exhaustive or even complete documentary, but George, who began filming after a post- Firebird" injury briefly threatened Copost- Firebirdr, captures the behinjurye-scenes grit required of any great artist while also making it clear why this artist is more important than most.
Now, fifteen years later, Fritsche has successfully crowd-funded a campaign to release a complete documentary about the viral rise of the Technoviking himself so the rest of us can get some insight into what the fuck was actually going on in Germany that day so long ago.
At present, the indefatigable Bogdanovich is preparing a couple of feature films and completing documentaries on John Ford and Tom Petty.
