Jay Ruby: By "pre-postmodern" mixed documentaries, do you include
a film like Humphrey Jennings wartime "The Silent Village", where he
recreates the extermination of the Czech mining village Lidice by the
nazis by letting the action take place in a Welsh mining town? Anyhow,
I think Jennings is a very interesting practitioner of mixing enactment,
re-enactment and observational techniques in most of his wartime films.
Bjorn Sorenssen, University of Trondheim, Norway
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