Meaning of found footage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Misplaced, forgotten, archived, or privately-owned motion picture recordings which document past events and which are subsequently rediscovered and made available for public viewing.
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2. A motion picture, or a segment of one, photographed in the style of an amateurish or unedited documentary.
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Examples

“Shrewdly mixing found footage, historical record and dramatized re-creation, One Day in People's Poland is an intriguing curio.”

“Austrian director Gustav Deutsch complicates this witty, deceptively simple formula with a wealth of found footage (material shot by others for other purposes) borrowed from film archives from around the world.”

“Yes, they knew it was only a movie—one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events.”

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