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It is undeniable that there is a greater awareness now of animated documentaries than there was twenty years ago. Hybridised forms of animation and documentary were made prior to the 1990s, and some may argue that animated documentaries have been around since the earliest days of cinema, but it is only over the past two decades that animated documentary has claimed a place, albeit a relatively low profile one, in the documentary canon. While most animated documentaries continue to be made in the short-film format, and screened either at festivals or occasionally on television, this increased visibility has been aided by mainstream cinematic feature film releases such as Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman 2008) and Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen 2007) and the trailblazing use of digital animation in the BBC’s 1999 prehistoric natural history series Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Roe, A.H. (2014). The Evolution of Animated Documentary. In: Nash, K., Hight, C., Summerhayes, C. (eds) New Documentary Ecologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137310491_12
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