And news in the press, TV news and radio news had exactly the same format, documentaries had the same format, they were also stories, and it made no difference whether what they told had actually happened or not.
From jewel thieves to the Black Plague to a town where slavery and Confederates still exist, these long-format documentaries explore news, culture, and current events from the front lines.
Abandoning a more formal documentary format, the film is assembled from a series of vignettes showing women singing together in the camps, snippets of conversations, girls making up songs together, and late-night parties as the young stay awake and watch the skies for the glitter of the dreaded Antonovs.
Are people becoming more engaged with subjects they might not necessarily know about because they are becoming more familiar with the format of documentaries as a medium for gaining information?
Large-format nature documentaries haven't progressed since the days when they were exclusively shown in domed auditoriums at museums, even as studios increasingly co-opt the Imax 3-D technology.
"Yiddishkeit," heavily illustrated in graphic documentary format, is definitely more fun.
"We realized the inherent limitations of the documentary format," said Michael Bostick, chief executive of Walden.
It follows the usual television documentary format, alternating between interviews and archival film clips.
In 1965, he oversaw Horizon's transition into a documentary format, with one subject per episode.
"We felt that the documentary format wouldn't give us the breadth and nuance of narrative storytelling," Chuchu says.
