mobucks said:I'll take a good book about war over a war docu. I watch one WWII docu on TV. I watch another. I notice half the footage used in film B was also in film A. I pick up book.
i notice the same thing, but this makes me even more curious where the raw footage reel is from.
everyone saw these snippets in ww2 docus, a snippet of people running across the street, a snippet of a smoke collumn rising, a snippet of some brave soldiers shooting intoa random direction (just as likely, they are posing, shooting at nothing)
i am often wishing i could watch the entire roll of film. most of it would probably be quite dull, just like many a raw reel from modern conflicts often are. raw footage of libya for example, mostly showing dusty streets, some dude sitting w his rifle, and nothing more for hours.
but in itself, such footage would be the detailed-most representation of visual media
images can be very documenting, like vuk says, because they offer a whole new perspective on an issue.
that was my point with bringing up the article that "pwns" the book, each medium has its purpose.
