Early Influence of The Cinéma Vérité Style
Between 1958 and 1961 Kroitor co-directed, with Wolf Koenig, the Candid Eye direct cinema documentary series for the National Film Board. One of those films became the highly influential Cinéma vérité-style documentary about singer Paul Anka: Lonely Boy. This film's use of portable film and sound gear, with lack of a narration voice-over, would influence later documentaries like D.A. Pennebaker's 1967 Bob Dylan feature Dont Look Back and even more closely the Peter Watkins 1967 film Privilege. Lonely Boy was one of the earliest examples of a rockumentary and was parodied in the comedy This is Spinal Tap.
Other notable films that Kroitor directed or co-directed in the Cinema Verite style included Glenn Gould:On the Record, Glenn Gould:Off the Record, Stravinsky, among many others.
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