In an interview in his sprawling new Manhattan office he said that during his break he explored the possibility of a documentary on Lyndon B. Johnson, the president he served as press secretary, but decided that "today is more interesting than yesterday".
More enthusiastic advocates of re-enactments say the device opens a window of possibilities for documentaries.
Number 94, plutonium, offers too many possibilities for documentary filmmakers to omit.
I could really see the possibility of making a documentary about these people, who were engaged on a huge endeavour.
With one quirky documentary film to his credit, "Pasta, Rice and Potatoes," which was shown on German television, Mr. Weisinger was intrigued at the possibility of filming a documentary about the "wire".
You might suppose that the greatest threat to such a double image lies in the possibility of the endless documentary on American foreign policy and America's wars being offered by WikiLeaks.
"We heard about the case very early on, before it was filed and we asked them about the possibility of making a documentary about it, without knowing that someday it would become a bigger case," Cotner told AFP. "At the time, we had no idea that it would go all the way to the Supreme Court," he added.
It is, in effect, a making-of documentary about a movie that was never made — a movie that was supposed to revolutionize the art form and that survives, in the limbo between intention and realization, as an intriguing possibility.
When the World Wide Web exploded in the late nineteen-nineties, some of its possibilities seemed immediately attractive, such as the accessibility of new global audiences and the democratization of documentary video.
When all is said and done, it may be that a documentary that suggests the possibility of a revival — and not than the tabloid headlines about a downfall — that proves most enduring.
The Kardashian form of documentary.
