I found the actualities we watched in class fascinating. Regardless of whether they were staged or real, they are cultural artifacts. They show us what people found as interesting, new, and exciting. People seem to have been amused by merely images themselves. Experiencing the surreal is what I imagine thrilled them most.
These films can be looked at in an almost Darwinian sense. They are the common bonding ancestors of all films today. All the different genres and sub-genres today derived directly or indirectly from this messy pool of media. Just a thought.
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