Albert Maysles – Deciding to work with David Maysles (23/97)
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Entertainment
To listen to more of Albert Maysles’ stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tqxYdgVwtk&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFwINwqzgi8gYJPFHbxA_7tK Albert Maysles (1926-2015) was known for his important documentaries on Muhammad Ali, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. He pioneered the documentary style known as Direct Cinema and helped create techniques still used in modern documentary production and in reality TV. [Listeners: Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles and Tamara Tracz; date recorded: 2004] TRANSCRIPT: Okay, so I made this- I made this film on my own, "Psychiatry in Russia", edited it, all that stuff, which was my basic training. And then the experience in helping to make "Primary". And then a year or so later, having made this film in Cuba with these same people, having also helped out in a film that was made about the race driver, Eddie Sachs, and perhaps several other projects, I decided at that time that it would be best that I go out on my own with my brother, David. And so we made a film called "Showman".
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