Cinema Verity is a British independent television and film production company, founded in 1986 by Verity Lambert, a well-known and highly successful television producer, who named the company after herself and as a pun on the expression 'cinéma vérité'.
Other work has included playwright Alan Bleasdale's acclaimed drama serial G.B.H. for Channel 4 in 1991, and the literary adaptation The Cazalets for BBC One in 2001, the latter of which was co-produced by actress Joanna Lumley, whose initial idea the adaptation had been.
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Internet Movie Database entry (http://www.imdb.com/List?production_companies=Cinema%20Verity%20%5Bgb%5D&&tv=on&&heading=18;produced+by;Cinema%20Verity%20%5Bgb%5D)
He entered the industry in 1934 as an employee of Warner Bros. Initially engaged as a film librarian, he progressed to the role of assistant editor and thence to assistant head of the insert department.
The urgent potency of Siegel's work has often been defined less by a seeming verity, though, than through the application of this aesthetic to a ritualistic and heightened delineation of character and conflict.
Alan Lovell argues a stylistic shift occurred in the early 1960s whereby “the naturalistic use of settings is replaced by an impressionistic one that often supports the moral position of the main characters” (6).
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