video vérité

[ ver-i-tey; French vey-ree-tey ]

/ ˌvɛr ɪˈteɪ; French veɪ riˈteɪ /

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noun Television.

a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.

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Origin of video vérité

First recorded in 1965–70; see origin at cinéma vérité

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.
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Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
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Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
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I've seen video of that satirical guide to SXSW in 1998 where you asked a bunch of bands odd questions.
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Pinhead video-cameras cost less than a good restaurant dinner these days, so they're showing up everywhere.
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This kid -- his handle was Kameraspie -- had sent me an even better video this time around.
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"Oh my dear sweet Buddha," I said looking at the screen as it faded to black, starting the video again.
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He turned his screen around so that I could see the video feed from the social studies classroom.
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She was breaking up the video into billions of pieces and hiding each of them in a normal message to a DNS server.
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