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Ethnographic film : an investigation with specific reference to the Bushman ethnographies of John Marshall
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
This thesis consists of a text and a videotape, entitled Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out. The written thesis is an examination of the tradition of documentary film making with particular reference to notions of Realism, ...
The storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between the storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking. This relationship is evaluated in three distinct points of departure. The evolution of the storytelling process ...
Communication and development : between the hammer and the mirror, the use of cinema verite in the Third World
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
This thesis is essentially about the role and use of cinema verite in development communications. The central argument is that in the diffusion of this method of filmmaking to developing countries, the technology was ...
Locomotion of jointed figures over complex terrain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Caricature generator
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The human face is a highly significant visual display which we are able to remember and recognize easily despite the fact that we are exposed to thousands of faces which may be metrically very similar. caricature is a ...
A color spatial display based on a Raster framebuffer and varifocal mirror
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
A very simple 30 color display has been constructed. It consists of a 20 display viewed in a rapidly vibrating varifocal mirror. The changing focal length of the mirror is responsible for providing the depth; when the ...
The authoring of optical videodiscs with digital data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The optical videodisc is a publishing medium that permanently stores large amounts of visual and aural data. The technology needed to support videodiscs is understood and available. Digital augmentation of the optical ...
New man/new image culture/communication and Latin America identity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
This work attempts to present the development of a new self-image of Latin American identity as manifested in the New Latin American Cinema Movement. Also, it attempts to help articulate intentions, strategies, and final ...
Videodisc-based simulations for language learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Plans, pans, and six grand in the can
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
Making an unscripted documentary (cinema verite) film is a kind of exploration into uncharted territory. It was my experience in making "Marv Cutler and the Little Prince of Rock" that preconceptions in shooting a scene ...