Soviet documentarist Dziga Vertov believed that cinematographic special effects were:

A. part of the camera's superior ability to report the truth.
B. evidence of the lack of imagination in capitalist filmmaking practice.
C. distortions of the reality filmmakers were meant to record.
D. best reserved for fiction films.


Answer: A

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