BOOTLEG FILES 953: “Adventure in the Bronx” (1941 Academy Award-nominated short).

LAST SEEN: On YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: There may be a rights issue holding it up.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: It doesn’t seem likely.

Question: When is a documentary not a documentary? In concept, a documentary is a nonfiction film that captures real life in an unscripted reality. In practice, however, documentaries have often involved staged and scripted sequences. That occurred in Robert Flaherty’s seminal works and it is still occurring in that Nathan Fielder thing now in theaters.
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