The completed documentary was released on 17 September 1999, and included scenes in New York of the Cubans, some of whom had never left the island, window shopping and visiting tourist sites.
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.
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.
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.
Automatically constructing a complete documentary or educational film from scattered pieces of images and knowledge is a significant challenge.
That would be Michael Moore, who was able to shoot and edit a complete documentary, "Where to Invade Next," without word getting out.
"The difference in mental development between a junior high school kid and a high school kid is impossible to overstate," said Elizabeth Spiegel, the school's full-time chess teacher, who helped turn a small after-school program into a national contender, the core of the school's identity and the focus of a recently completed documentary, "Brooklyn Castle".
The difference between Wilder's completed documentary and Bernstein's intended documentary is vast.
The subject of a recently completed documentary by filmmaker Stefan Sargent titled Pinot: Escape from Wall Street, Kutch seems to have more success headed his way.
