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documentary, a.|ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪ|
[f. as documental a. + -ary1: cf. F. documentaire.]
1. Of the nature of or consisting in documents.
1802–12Bentham Rat. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 54 Documentary evidence. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, Various fragments of Letters and other documentary scraps. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 178 They were in possession of documentary evidence which would confound the guilty. 1861M. Pattison Ess. ('89) I. 30 Going back beyond the printed annalists to original and documentary authorities.
2. Affording evidence, evidential. rare.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. iii, It is an authentic..fact, quietly documentary of a whole world of such.
3. Relating to teaching or instruction. rare.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §52 Long before 1250 we get traces of the documentary use of French..Trevisa says it was a new thing in 1349 for children to construe into English in the Grammar schools.
4. Factual, realistic; applied esp. to a film or literary work, etc., based on real events or circumstances, and intended primarily for instruction or record purposes. Also ellipt. as n.
1926N. Y. Sun 8 Feb. 18/1 ‘Moana’, being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value. 1930P. Rotha Film till Now i. ii. 65 The Documentary or Interest Film, including the Scientific, Cultural and Sociological Film. 1932Cinema Q. I. i. 67 Documentary is a clumsy description, but let it stand. The French who first used the term only meant travelogue. 1932Film in National Life (Rep. Comm. Educ. & Cult. Films) viii. 115 §174 A deliberate documentary film must be a transcript of real life, a bit of what actually happened, under approximately unrehearsed conditions. 1934Punch 26 Dec. 720/1 Most documentary films seem to hinge upon the exposition of some staple industry. 1935R. Spottiswoode Gram. of Film 288 The documentary as he defines it is still flourishing. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 72/3 The documentary film—or, tout court, ‘documentary’. 1941[see actuality 4 b]. 1947J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 32 ‘Mass-Observation’, whose intriguing ‘documentaries’ of the British people at work and play contain the crude substance of innumerable novels, biographies, and essays. 1957V. J. Kehoe Film & T.V. Make-Up i. 17 Some producers do not like the smoothness of the face created by the use of make-up. They strive to achieve what is termed a documentary effect..by the lack of make-up on men (even at times, on women). 1957Listener 18 July 103/1 Mr. Owen's ‘documentary’, as he calls his attractive book, reveals him as an acute observer. 1962Observer 8 July 20/4 Henry Cecil's light legal documentary fiction.
Hence docuˈmentarily adv., in the way of a document; from a documentary point of view; docuˈmentarist, one who makes documentary films.
1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art ii. (1868) 126 These copies..would be historically and documentarily valuable. 1953New Statesman 10 Oct. 419 A documentarist of sensation. 1959Times 3 Nov. 15/3 The most ruthless of documentarists. 1961Times 1 June 6/4 It is a film about film-making... A simple, puppyish documentarist has moved into the ‘pad’ of a group of junkies. 1962Times 26 Apr. 8/5 The Swedish documentarist..in his new film. |