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Scorpion451
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31st Jul, 2020 02:21:36 PM
Stock Footage taken to the Logical Extreme, and The Ken Burns Effect is probably involved.
Might be a viable trope if you can scrape together enough examples.
A documentary that only uses archival video, photos and audio to tell it’s narrative, maybe adding some text here and there to explain context and music for atmosphere.
I saw recently saw National Geographic documentary on the 1992 LA riots that used this style.
Edited by DS9guy