Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A Modest Proposal
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:16:57 -0500

> on 9/19/01 2:25 PM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote:
> 
>> A couple of nights ago there was a thing on TV about documentary film making.
>> The guy seemed to feel it all started with HCB. I was surprised to see a real
>> slant towards stills.

Johnny Deadman states:
>
> I don't know where on earth he got that from. the history of documentaries
> is a LOT older than HCB, and I've never met a single documentary maker who
> was influenced by him.

......furthermore, HCB in his VERY brief cinema attempt was a flop, he could
not measure up to the collaborative needs of cinema camera shooting.

sl

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