Leacock uncontrolled cinema

Leacock is truly a ground breaking guy. Pennebaker and Drew did a lot for film, a direct cinema in particular, but Leacock really had his mind straight when it came to what makes good film making. He took some new approaches to the craft of film making, and also was willing to accept that part of what he was doing was journalism, and thus he always had that in mind when making his documentaries. What always strikes me as interesting, is that you can Leacock's school of though which is get out of the way and let the action happen. Or you can have someone like jean rouche who not only will direcet the action in his "documentaries" but he will also have his subjects do multiple takes of real life playikng out before the camera. Personally I like leacock pictures more than Jean rouche films, but both Directors approaches are so different, and the things that Leacock complains about in the uncontrolled cinema article have a lot to do with how well he can make a piece, because in Leacock's eyes being a fly on the wall is the only way to truly tell what happenes. Jean Rouche is so involved anways in creating reality that he robably didn't have as many problems with the old style of shooting sync sound as Leacock did.