The Retro Report documentary project was conceived of by Christopher Buck, a former television editor whose father was a co-founder of the Subway restaurant chain.
The impulse to foreground a film's reality with formal devices found footage, news report, documentary narration speaks to a certain perceived jadedness among modern audiences, and such trickery has become SOP in at least one film genre: horror.
The piece, which debuted at the Venice Biennale in 2015, is a mash-up of contemporary communication, told as video game, news report documentary film and Internet video.
Indeed, suffering because of religious zealotry is the majority of what I have seen of this region that is the cradle of civilization, through the lenses of news reports, documentary films, books and conversations with anyone from the region who is willing to share their perspectives about their homelands' issues and cultures.
Beginning with allegations of corruption made against Erdogan and his ministers in December 2013, the report – based on documentary evidence rather than visits to observe trials or interview witnesses in Turkey – records what it says are repeated breaches of human rights.
The size of the report suggests extraordinary documentary thoroughness, but in a "background note" the U.N. Human Rights Commission explains that it required no more than two accounts from self-described witnesses to an incident for it to be included in its findings.
That year he anchored a "CBS Reports" documentary called "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception".
For years, Friendly has been thinking of doing a "C.B.S. Reports" documentary on the Navajo Indians, in Arizona, but so far he hasn't been able to find any Navajos who seem talkative enough for his purposes.
The controversy that most affected Wallace grew out of a 1982 "CBS Reports" documentary he narrated on the Vietnam War.
This week's developments make the Retro Report video documentary on the Tailhook scandal particularly timely for providing a historical context to a problem that will not go away.
"Precious Cargo," a beautifully filmed and sensitively reported documentary, follows a group of these children, now adults, returning to Vietnam for the first time since they left.
