He contended that because “we believed, then, that documentary film had a rigorous and vigorous future,” it was of utmost urgency to save the documentary film from its negative aspects, which, if left unchallenged, would lead to its tragic downfall. At the outset of his “Manifesto on the Documentary Film,” Oswell Blakeston (born Henry Joseph Hasslacher, 1907–1985)-a prolific British writer, poet, artist, and admirer of poetry, fictional films, literature, photography, experimental cinema, and film criticism-proposed to liberate documentary film from its failings (the worst of which were a dishonest reliance on post-sync and a deceitful imitation of Russian film aesthetics) by means of a single, radical action.
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