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By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly forty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older films. At around the sam...
Thomas Doherty, "How Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America" (Columbia UP, 2026) is an episode from New Books in Communications. By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from nearly for...
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Published May 20, 2026, 38:14 long, audio available.