Documentary style

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This film style is used in fictional films, reproducing the techniques and appearance of documentary films, and typically including the following features: periods of voice-over narration delivered in the style of a news reporter; crisp editing; and relatively stationary and straightforward photography. Most commonly seen in films of the early to mid-1950s, based on the success of the style in the television program, Dragnet.