The most legitimate publications of the first documentaries that I could find are between Phillip Delamotte and his work on the disassembly of Crystal Palace in 1852 and Matthew Brady “The American” who documented The American Civil War in 1861.  As Brady described himself Documentaries are created “To preserve the faces of its historical men and mothers” I have to stop myself and say that was the most beautifully said reasoning how important documentaries actually are. Think of all the wars people have been through what our grandparents went through growing up, Think of what our neighbors have been through and families and centuries before us. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) was created during America’s toughest time : The Great Depression. Franklin D Roosevelt created the FSA to provide emergency relief and provided money and farming essentials and efficient soil to improve farms for crops and food and even sanitary camps for the migrant farm workers. What an experience to go back through history like that. Lewis Hine (1874) documented the children under child labor camps in the Carolina piedmont. He knew it was a problem that children were being used to work for the cotton mills, people who owned these farms did not want anyone to find out the real corrupt businessmen taking advantage of these poor kids and families revealing the secrets of the child labor camps. If these people were doing it then how could the whole country get away with it. Documentary appears typically on the news stations of newspapers and late night television. I really really love Jon Berlinger. He has done countless documentaries on Ted Bundy, specifically all the evidence he gathered. Berlinger has had a lot of credibility working and making countless documentaries of notorious serial killers throughout decades of history. 

WHAT IS DRAG BECOME IN THE DOCUMENTARY WORLD? 

WILLIAM SWANN was a slave who later escaped and became a DRAG QUEEN. It depicts the experiences of the drag queens organizing and participating in the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest held at New York City’s Town Hall.The film was screened at the International Critics’ Week section of the 1968 Cannes Film Festival; however, the festival was ultimately curtailed and ended due to ongoing civil unrest in France before any awards could be given out.

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