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David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
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- In Albert and David Maysles
In 1962 the brothers established the production company Maysles Films, Inc., and began to collaborate on documentaries in the cinema verité style, which they called “direct cinema.” They gained fame for the films Salesman (1969), about four door-to-door Bible salesmen, and Gimme Shelter (1970), which covered the 1969…
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