and I don't discount for a moment the effect of a camera on events.

But see, e.g., War Room for a great example of a documentary that doesn't use narration, subtitles blahblahblah and still tells its story impeccably.


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Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

-- Ovid, from The Metamorphoses

"I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way."