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The French New Wave ran on light cameras
Portable 16mm and 35mm rigs let small crews shoot on real streets Young French critics turned filmmakers in the late 1950s used small, quiet cameras and fast film to shoot in apartments and on the street without permits or heavy crews. Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut favoured long takes, natural light and direct sound. The approach influenced independent filmmaking everywhere. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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