Together with Adrian Malone and Peter Montagnon he invented the authored documentary.
They are invented scenes, not documentary ones, but all the more upsetting for that: three naked bodies tied to a tree, one hanging upside down next to his severed head and arms.
As a CBS News producer, Mr. Friendly and his longtime partner, Edward R. Murrow, virtually invented the news documentary on television, pioneering such techniques as the use of original film clips, live, unrehearsed interviews, and the use of field producers who supervised reporting on location.
The producer and director John Read, who has died aged 88, effectively invented the British arts documentary with his 1951 television programme Henry Moore – the first British film profile of a living artist.
On the one hand, the proud imbalance of "Hearts and Minds," which gives no clue that atrocities were committed by the other side, and which allows Davis to cut from a rampaging football game, back home, to the Tet offensive, will be a lesson to anybody who thinks that Michael Moore invented the notion of documentary as blunderbuss.
He is the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome, a documentary filmmaker, and a regular contributor to The New Republic.
It wouldn't be fair to call the "American Masters" documentary "Inventing David Geffen" a whitewash.
Creosote (AKA Kenny Anderson) then wrote a soundtrack of songs for the documentary, inventing lives and stories around these grainy faces snatched from history.
That is the thrust of an upcoming documentary, "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times," slated to air in October on KCET.
Hip-hop wasn't invented by Latinos (and the documentary fails to note the strong Jamaican element in early hip-hop), but they were still in the neighborhoods, and they took to it quickly.
