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Direct Cinema The term 'direct cinema' was coined by American director Albert Maysles, to describe the style of documentary that he and his contemporaries were making in the 1960s as a result of a lightweight, portable 16mm camera and high quality lightweight audio recorders becoming available. The introduction of these, together with film-stock which was sensitive enough to give a good quality close-up monochrome picture under most lighting conditions (Including hand-held lights) led to a revolution in Documentary filmmaking, allowing film crews to be much more flexible. Gone were the days of bulky, virtually immobile 35mm cameras; now manufacturers improved their 16mm stock and accepted it as a professional format. In 1959 a group comprising graduates from Drew Associates, a company formed by Robert Drew (an ex journalist) and Richard Leacock, joined forces. Their ethos was to record events as they happened, without interfering and in an attempt to transfer the style of...

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