Editing Mockumentary (section)

==Early examples==
Early work, including [[Luis Buñuel]]'s 1933 ''[[Land Without Bread]]'',<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0003 | jstor=10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0003 | doi=10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0003 | title=The Unreliable Narrator in Documentary | date=2015 | last1=Otway | first1=Fiona | journal=Journal of Film and Video | volume=67 | issue=3–4 | pages=3–23 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Orson Welles]]'s 1938 radio broadcast of ''[[The War of the Worlds (radio)|The War of the Worlds]]'', various [[April Fools' Day]] news reports, and ''vérité''-style film and television during the 1960s and 1970s, served as precursor to the genre.<ref name=Roscoe/> Early examples of mock-documentaries include various films by [[Peter Watkins]], such as ''[[The War Game]]'' (1965), ''[[Privilege (film)|Privilege]]'' (1967), and the [[Dystopia|dystopic]] ''[[Punishment Park]]'' (1971).<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-08-18|title=This 70s Sci-Fi Mockumentary Predicted Our Current Political Climate|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/70s-scifi-mockumentary-politics-punishment-park/|access-date=2021-12-20|website=Vice|language=en-us}}</ref>

Further examples are ''[[The Connection (1961 film)|The Connection]]'' (1961), ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964), ''[[David Holzman's Diary]]'' (1967), ''[[Pat Paulsen for President]]'' (1968), ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'' (1969), ''[[I clowns|The Clowns]]'' (1970) by [[Federico Fellini]] (a peculiar [[hybridity|hybrid]] of [[documentary]] and [[fiction]], a docufiction), ''[[Smile (1975 film)|Smile]]'' (1975), [[Carlos Mayolo]]'s ''[[The Vampires of Poverty]]'' (1977) and ''[[All You Need Is Cash]]'' (1978). [[Albert Brooks]] was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film ''[[Real Life (1979 film)|Real Life]]'', 1979, a spoof of the 1973 [[reality television]] series ''[[An American Family]]''. [[Woody Allen]]'s ''Take the Money and Run'' is presented in documentary style with Allen playing a fictional criminal, Virgil Starkwell, whose crime exploits are "explored" throughout the film.<ref name="Trompe">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pbJHd6i9nwC&pg=PA343|title=Trompe (-)l'oeil: Imitation & Falsification|last2=Sy-Wonyu|first2=Aïssatou|publisher=University of Le Havre Press|year=2002|isbn=2877753344|series=Publications de l'Université de Rouen|volume=324|page=343|first1=Philippe|last1=Romanski}}</ref> [[Jackson Beck]], who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, provides the voice-over narration. Fictional interviews are inter-spliced throughout, especially those of Starkwell's parents who wear [[Groucho Marx]] noses and mustaches. The style of this film was widely appropriated by others and revisited by Allen himself in films such as ''[[Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story]]'' (1971), ''[[Zelig]]'' (1983) and ''[[Sweet and Lowdown]]'' (1999).<ref name=Trompe/>

Early use of the mockumentary format in television comedy can be seen in several sketches from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' (1969–1974), such as "[[List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes|Hell's Grannies]]", "[[Piranha Brothers]]", and "[[The Funniest Joke in the World]]". ''[[The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour]]'' (1970–1971) also featured mockumentary pieces that interspersed both scripted and real-life man-in-the-street interviews, the most famous likely being "The Puck Crisis" in which hockey pucks were claimed to have become infected with a form of [[Dutch elm disease]].

''[[All You Need Is Cash]]'', developed from an early series of sketches in the comedy series ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'', is a 1978 television film in mockumentary style about ''[[The Rutles]]'', a fictional band that parodies [[The Beatles]].  The Beatles' own 1964 feature film debut, ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', was itself filmed in mockumentary style; it ostensibly documents a few typical (and highly fictionalized) days in the life of the band as they travel from Liverpool to London for a television appearance.