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Albert Maysles - The benefits of video over film for the documentary filmmaker (96/97)

To listen to more of Albert Maysles’ stories, go to the playlist:    • Albert Maysles – Thoughts on art and my pa...   Albert Maysles (1926-2015) was known for his important documentaries on Muhammad Ali, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. He pioneered the documentary style known as Direct Cinema and helped create techniques still used in modern documentary production and in reality TV. [Listeners: Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles and Tamara Tracz; date recorded: 2004] TRANSCRIPT: Well, I've made the transition from film to, to video and I think it's a permanent one. Especially since video cameras are getting better and better. And, in fact, by the end of this year, the beginning of next year, I'm going to have a fully professional, high definition camera that it's as small as the one that I use now. And I, I've come up with 30 reasons, which have gone into publication actually, as to why it's important to make the move, for a documentary filmmaker, from film to, to video. Some of the re- reasons are: it's so much more economical- it's $5 an hour instead of several thousand; you don't run out of film as you do with a film camera- ten minutes you're, you're already reloading and with my little video camera it's an hour. 30 reasons which I needn't go- needn't go into. But I'm more intrigued, rather than with the somewhat more beautiful result on film, more intrigued with the, the opportunities to get closer to people with a video camera without interruption. And that's, that's what the video camera offers. And that's of paramount importance.