https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/19/robert-drew-primary-and-the-birth-of-cinema-verite/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2012/02/19/robert-drew-primary-and-the-birth-of-cinema-verite/#comment-24 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:10:00 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=40#comment-24 Helen, excellent job turning both the films and the remarks about them into a coherent and interesting narrative – it’s a great provocation to think about how handheld, home-made looking footage has turned into an everyday reality. I agree the story would have been stronger with one or more images – I think it also could benefit from linking to the rich material you’re talking about here. A product of reporting live, I’m sure, but a surefire way to make this a stronger piece with a few minutes of online work later.

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