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A Study on Animated Documentary

Recently there has been an increased interest in animated documentary,especially since the release of Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir(2008),which won wide acclaim. And many film theorists welcome the appearance of such hybrid genre. But it seems to this author that often, in the process of their welcoming, those theorists overemphasize the role and importance of animation in animated documentary. A theorist even says that “animation is a mode perfectly suited to documentary production.”In this article the author argues that even though animation can certainly contribute to a documentary in terms of film art, it does not contribute to the documentary as such. What this means is that animation,however well or truthfully done, does not make a film a documentary by itself. What makes a film a documentary is the same whether it is animated or not. Animated documentaries are documentaries either because they are assertively narrated (or subtitled) or because the sound track is actual (like real interviews). Not because they are well-animated.