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CINEMA-VERITE

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ci⋅né⋅ma vé⋅ri⋅té

  [sin-uh-muh ver-i-tey; Fr. see-ney-mah vey-ree-tey]
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–noun
1. a technique of documentary filmmaking in which the camera records actual persons and events without directorial control: introduced in France in the 1950s.
2. a film using this technique or a simulation of it.
Origin:
1960–65; < F cinéma-vérité lit., cinema-truth, coined as a trans. of Russ kinoprávda, a documentary technique developed by the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896–1954)
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