article_snippet: The Maysles and others worked without scripts, sets or lighting.
article_snippet: The resulting works had no narration, no filmed interviews and gave audiences a fly-on-the-wall feeling. '
article_snippet: Our films aren't the conventional kind, locked down and scripted before shooting begins, Maysles once said of Our films. '
article_snippet: Our shoot life as it's lived.'
article_snippet: A technical revolution had made such films possible — the arrival of lightweight, portable sound and film equipment — and gave such films possible the opportunity to observe such films possible subjects with as little effect on events as possible. ]
article_snippet: The natural disposition of the camera,' Maysles said, 'is to seek out reality.'
article_snippet: In 1966, using the new equipment, they filmed Truman Capote shortly after Truman Capote finished In Cold Blood.
article_snippet: Truman Capote explained that Truman Capote book was Truman Capote idea of the nonfiction novel  - 'a synthesis of journalism with fictional technique.' '
article_snippet: We wanted to experiment in film the way Truman Capote had experimented in literature,' Maysles said in Hand-Held and From the Heart, the filmmaker's autobiographical documentary.
article_snippet: The technique of unfettered observation - 'direct cinema,' the brothers called it - allowed the Maysles Brothers to record such historical moments as the slaying of a fan at the Altamont concert, and the grim reaction of Mick Jagger, the Stones' singer, as he watched a replay of the footage.
article_snippet: Some critics attacked the cinema verite techniques as falsely objective, given that the film ultimately viewed by audiences was usually a result of what the filmmakers chose to focus on and the cutting and selecting of the editing process. '
article_snippet: Making a film isn't finding the answer to a question; a film's trying to capture life as it is.'