History Documentary
The documentary is not just
as fiction, is a record of events taken from real events or actually happened.
The definition of "documentary" itself is always changing in line
with the development of documentary films from time to time. Since the era of
silent films, documentaries evolved from simple shapes become increasingly
complex with the type and function of increasingly varied. Camera and sound
technological innovation have an important role for the development of documentary
film. Since the first documentary which only refers to the production of the
film format (celluloid) but extends further until now using video format
(digital).
Since the early days of
cinema, filmmakers in the United States and France have tried to document what
is around them by means of their findings. Such as the Lumiere Brothers, they
record daily events going on around them, such as workers who left the factory,
train entering the station, construction workers are working, and so forth. The
shape is very simple (only one shot) and its duration was only a few seconds.
These films often termed "actuality films". A few decades later in
line with the improvement of camera technology evolved into a documentary
journey or expedition, sepertiSouth (1919) which tells the failure of an
expedition to Antarctica.
