Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond
Documentary Producers
About This Interview
In their joint Archive interview, documentarians Alan & Susan Raymond talk about their groundbreaking "cinema verite" work on such television documentaries including An American Family and The Police Tapes. Alan & Susan Raymond were interviewed in New York, NY on June 16, 2010; Ron Simon conducted the three-and-a-half-hour interview. Short individual biographical interviews were also conducted.
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Alan and Susan Raymond on the public reaction and aftermath of American Family
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On the similarities and distinctions between cinema verite (in American Family) and ethnographic filmmaking
Clip begins at: 00:01- On the silent scenei n American Familybetween the estranged couple; the tracking shot in Central Park
Clip begins at: 04:46 - Alan and Susan Raymond on the aftermath of American Family; their being ostracized; and video verite on Police Tapes; their next project
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Interview
- Part 1
- Solo interview with Susan Raymond; on her childhood and early influences; memories of early television
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- Solo interview with Alan Raymond; on his early childhood in Russia and influences; Susan then joins him for the joint interview
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- On the similarities and distinctions between cinema verite and ethnographic filmmaking; on famous scenes from American Family: a walk in the park, on why they choose the Loud family; why they wanted to be filmed
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- On the public reaction to American Family; the aftermath and fame, and controversy that followed; their distance from the series after it came out; on video verite; the Police Tapes; their style of documentary filmmaking; On HBO first coming on the scene and being a home for documentary filmmakers
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- On their HBO film Doing Time; on their creative process; on changes in documentary filmmaking; on their goals as filmmakers and what makes them different from other documentarians
Clip begins at: 0:0 - On the death of Lance Loud and their relationship to him; he asked them to film him again
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A very important and well done interview with this historic team.
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Me llamo Adelita. Yo soy artisica, reservado y intellegente. Me gusta "An American Family" leer y dibujar. La primera vez que vieron el programa en la clase de español. Escribre pronto.
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