Hidden Camera Research Articles

Food intake and eating behaviour during a real-life Snack Scenario in childhood obesity-An experiment using a hidden camera.

To compare food intake and eating behaviour in children and adolescents with obesity (OBE) undergoing weight loss intervention and normal weight (NW) in a real-life Snack Scenario. Sixty OBE were examined before (T0) and after weight loss (T1) and compared to a single measurement comparison group of 27NW. Participants watched a 20-min film and were encouraged to snack from a variety of foods ad libitum. Food intake was measured and eating behaviour assessed via a hidden camera and a validated questionnaire. The food and energy intake did not differ between NW (155±83g, 1067±732kJ) and OBE at T0 (144±106g, 1088±883kJ) but increased in OBE at T1 (187±91g, 1544±845kJ). Latency of food intake was significantly shorter in NW (0 m:07s±0 m:08s) compared to OBE (T0: 1m:11s±2m:57s). After weight loss, latency decreased in OBE (0m:26 s± 1m:00s). NW touched food more often (49±24) than OBE (T0: 29±23), but takes from plate were similar. The questionnaire revealed differences between OBE and NW, not correlating with Snack Scenario observations. Eating behaviours differed in NW versus OBE at T0 but food intake was similar. Therefore, behaviour while eating may be an underestimated factor in the considerations for childhood obesity. German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS) with the trial number DRKS00005122.

Effect of a Gun Safety Video on Children’s Behavior Around Real Guns

Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the US. It is therefore crucial to identify effective ways to reduce firearm injuries among children. To test the effectiveness of a gun safety video vs a car safety video on decreasing unsafe behaviors around real guns after exposure to a violent movie with vs without guns. Of 245 participants aged 8 to 12 years, 226 were tested (13 did not complete the laboratory portion, 4 had technical problems, and 2 did not respond to follow-up inquiries). Data were collected from February 2 to October 16, 2022. Participants were recruited via Facebook ads, ResearchMatch, and parent or guardian referrals. The study was conducted in 2 parts. Children watched a safety video at home 1 week before coming to the laboratory at The Ohio State University. Pairs of children were randomly assigned to watch a 1-minute gun or car safety video at home. In the laboratory, they were randomly assigned to watch a 20-minute clip from a violent PG-rated movie with or without guns. Next, they played with games and toys for 20 minutes in another room that contained 2 disabled 9-mm handguns hidden in a file cabinet drawer. Sessions were videotaped via a hidden camera. Outcomes were whether children told an adult, touched a handgun, handled it, or pulled the trigger. Control variables were age, gender, race and ethnicity, trait aggressiveness, age-inappropriate media exposure, firearm attitude and interest, presence of firearms at home, and whether children had taken a firearm safety course. Of 226 children (mean [SD] age, 9.99 [1.38] years; 113 [52.3%] male), 216 (95.6%) found a gun and were included in analyses. Those who saw the gun (vs car) safety video were more likely to tell an adult about the gun they found (38 of 112 [33.9%] vs 11 of 104 [10.6%]), were less likely to touch the gun (44 of 112 [39.3%] vs 70 of 104 [67.3%]), held the gun fewer seconds if they did touch it (mean [SD], 42.04 [121.46] vs 98.96 [195.10]), were less likely to pull the trigger at all (10 of 112 [8.9%] vs 31 of 104 [29.8%]), and pulled the trigger fewer times (mean [SD], 4.20 [20.17] vs 7.23 [15.75]). Being male, exposure to age-inappropriate movies, and gun interest were related to unsafe behavior. Prior completion of a firearm safety course, having guns at home, and negative gun attitudes were related to safe behavior. In this trial of children assigned to watch a gun or car safety video, watching a gun safety video reduced children's unsafe behavior around real guns. Children who had previously taken a gun safety course, had guns in the home, and had negative attitudes toward guns were less likely to engage in unsafe behavior around real guns. To encourage safe firearm behavior, children should be educated about gun safety and should not watch age-inappropriate media. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05257837.

Revealing Honesty in Children through Game: A Case Study of Elementary School’s Students in Banda Aceh

Exposure to honesty in young children is a need in order to evaluate how the concept is internalized in themselves. It has an impact on the formation of children’s character in the future. This study aimed to reveal honest behavior in children. A total of 36 elementary school students consisting of 12 boys and 24 girls with aged 6 to 9 years old in Banda Aceh, Indonesia were selected as participants using random sampling. A ball-drawing task was used as a method to observe children’s honesty, every child was asked to draw a ball from an opaque box containing equal numbers of red and blue balls, in a closed room with a hidden camera. The results showed that there were only 25% of elementary school students behaved honestly, while the other 75% behaved dishonestly. It means that only a small number of students act honestly. Follow-up is needed to provide education related to the value of honesty in children from an early age.

Nudging to handwash during the pandemic – The use of visual priming and salience

AbstractThe government has been asserting efforts to control the pandemic's infection rate by influencing people to comply with the health protocols. While these efforts aim to change people's behavior, behavior approaches like nudge are under‐utilized, which thus motivates this paper. Nudge is the form of persuasion where a simple and subtle trigger is applied to encourage expected behavior. We conducted two studies to identify the right visual cues that best increase handwashing behavior. In Study 1 (online), we created some posters with varying concepts and held an online survey with 1,648 participants. Exploiting a pre‐post design, we found that visual handwashing with foam and rhyming messages in the poster can lead to higher handwashing intention. In Study 2 (offline), we introduced four treatment types and observed the handwashing behavior of government officials and visitors using a hidden camera. With a total of 2062 people observed during the experiment, we found that while the treatment of procuring a proper facility did not yield a significant change in handwashing rate, our nudge treatment with the salient poster and salient footprints towards the sink increased the handwashing rate.

An exploratory study of negative and positive facial expressions of carriage horses during nocturnal resting

Studies on the welfare of carriage horses have been addressed during working activity; however, their nocturnal resting behavior remains poorly explored. The aim of our study was to quantify the frequency of negative, positive, and neutral facial expressions (FE) of carriage horses used in tourism displayed under nocturnal resting conditions. Observations were carried out in the tropical city of Mérida, México, from January to March 2021. Nine crossbreed horses, including 3 mares and 6 geldings (400 ± 50 kg, 9-20 years old), were used. Prior to FE observations, an evaluation of resting locations was performed with regard to available surface area, movement restriction, floor and roof conditions, and visual and auditory contact between horses. A 40-point veterinary health examination was also performed on all horses. FE were identified based on the Horse Grimace Scale and EquiFacs coding system. Occurrences of stiffly backwards ears EAD103, orbital tightening AU145, tension above the eye area AU5, prominent strained chewing muscles AU18, strained mouth and pronounced chin AU24+17, and strained nostril and flattening of the profile EAD103+AUH13 were considered negative; ears forward EAD101 and nostril dilation AD38 were considered positive; and right ear forward EAD101R and without movement (WM) were considered neutral. All FE were photographed with a hidden camera (GoProHero3+, 12 megapixels) every minute for at least 8 hours overnight immediately following a randomly selected working day. Good resting location scores were fulfilled by 100% of horses except for good floor and roof conditions (66.6%). Physical health evaluations resulted in 90% of horses with good health scores. The most frequent FE per hour were WM (27.0 ± 5.6), EAD101 (12.8 ± 5.6), and EAD103 (8.9 ± 5.8). Statistical differences (P < 0.0001) were found for mean comparison test between neutral (15.7 ± 3.1 FE/h), positive (6.6 ± 2.9 FE/h), and negative (2.4 ± 1.3 FE/h) FE/h. No significant differences were found for the frequency of neutral, positive, or negative FE/h according to age, body condition score, or health status of the animals, nor according to floor and roof condition of resting locations. The higher frequency of neutral and positive FE compared to negative FE is consistent with the good health scores and generally good conditions of resting locations in the large majority of the horses observed.

Two Poems from North Macedonia

Two Poems from North Macedonia Lidija Dimkovska (bio) Translated by Ljubica Arsovska (bio) and Patricia Marsh-Stefanovska (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution A Curse May you be eaten by Paradise! was Father Kleopa’scurse on me. Steep was the groundfrom his skete to the foot of the hill where I stood. The curses our people use have always been hellish:“May your heart eat you, may you never see the light of day.”I was stumbling downward, crawling upward. Guts upside down, scratched and out of breath,I entered the first church I came across. The priesthad just recited the Creed, and a child shouted: “Blavo!” clapping its little hands.Muffled laughter. Older women in a scolding voice:“You don’t say bravo in church!” The priest thundered: “Not even here do you respect God,still less at home – wining and dininglike at the Last Supper!” And the mother with the child, hurrying to the exit, whispered:“If you live in hell, you’ll be wined and dined in heaven.”I left the church. And followed her. Translations from the Macedonian [End Page 38] Traduttore, traditore No, there was most certainly no God then,or He was clinically dead,I tell myself in Auschwitz, and shein front of the prefab where twenty thousand Roma ended up,tells me: “This is where they finished off the Gypsies.”The rain is pouring down in four dimensions.Our nylon rain capes are allies with the raindrops.I walk beside her, trying to get away from her.I enter every prefab, I read all the captions,stare at all the photographs.“It’s all in the books, we don’t need to look at everything,”she says, and her age, older than Auschwitz,flounders before the stairs,but not before the words.I leave her in the lanes swimming in mud,I forget about her among the reflections of evil.She waits for me in the rain at the corner of the gas chamber,asking a young guide if she knowswhere her uncle was killed in 1942.Maybe she is human after all, I say to myself,one torn apart by the pains of those I never knew,and I can’t make out if the one I know hurts her too. That evening in the hotel room we drink linden tea,me silent out of stubbornness, sadness and anger,she letting little snakes out of her mouth:she can’t abide women and their human rights,she can’t abide taxi drivers with foreign accents,she can’t abide artists ridiculing the government,she can’t abide homosexuals, lesbians,well, in this world, she says, there are only men, women, and families,she can’t abide Europe – only her country’s government is good,and not one single member of her nation ever betrayed a neighbor.And indeed, she says, it’s a crime to say anything different.I listen to her, with my palms sweating and my body oozingthe last raindrops of the day in Auschwitz,my head begins to feel as heavy as a rock,but that’s fine, let it be even heavierso that I cannot raise it abruptlyand in a fog of frenzyshut her mouth with the pillow,to kill the little snakes falling out of it,for doesn’t evil beget evil,and isn’t everything bad good for something?God, you who are not, you who are,but who was obviously not in Auschwitz,should know that yourself.Or you too are traduttore, traditore,literally, down to the bone? [End Page 39] Lidija Dimkovska Lidija Dimkovska (b. 1971, Skopje, Macedonia) has published seven books of poetry, three novels, one American diary, and one short-story collection translated into fifteen languages. Her novels Hidden Camera (2004) and A Spare Life (2012) received the award of the Writers’ Union of Macedonia for the best prose book of the year. A Spare Life also received the European Union Prize for Literature (2013) and was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2017. Her last poetry collection, Boundary Situation, received the “Brothers Miladinov” award for the best Macedonian...

육아 예능 TV프로그램과 시청자 반응에 나타난 아동 권리 침해에 대한 소고(小考)

Recently, parenting entertainment tv programs are gaining popularity and response from audience. Most audiences want to get help with childcare, learn the role of parenting, and have fun at the same time through parenting entertainment tv programs. Parenting entertainment programs are highly trusted by audiences due to their reality, and they affect on audiences’ parenting values, attitudes. Considering the impact and the influence of parenting entertainment tv program, it is necessary to explore to the respect for and protection of children's rights in parenting entertainment TV programs. This study aims to enhance social awareness of child rights by examining the recognition of child rights in parenting entertainment tv programs, and to provide implications for the production of child-centered parenting entertainment tv programs. For this, content analysis was conducted by monitoring a total of 70 videos and audience’s responses on parenting entertainment tv programs posted on the YouTube account of the broadcasting company. The study results were as follows: First, it was found that thumbnails and subtitles of parenting entertainment program videos are attribution-biased and infringe on child rights by caricatures of personality and behavior. This is an area that requires discussion of the appropriateness of children's developmental problems as a program with an entertainment format. Second, it was found that caricatures of children in parenting entertainment programs infringe on child right. This includes exposing the child's body, covering the child's face with food such as seaweed, adorning the child's dissatisfaction with adhesive tape, intentionally surprising the child with a hidden camera, and creating false discipline situations. Third, it was found that viewers' insulting comments about children appearing in parenting entertainment programs infringe on child right. This is an act that infringes on a child's privacy and does not consider the child safety. The insults of children are further reinforced as responses are induced and radicalized through “like” replies from third-party users to written comments. In view of the large social and cultural impact of childcare entertainment programs, child right and protection should be considered first in the media production process. Based on the above research results, suggestion were made so that the parenting entertainment TV program could enhance the public's awareness and sensitivity of children's rights. Through follow-up research, it is expected that academic discourse on media and children's rights will be formed and active research will be conducted.

The Girl Detective

The Girl Detective Jeannine Hall Gailey (bio) was born looking for clues.In pockets, in closets, behind staircasesand lighthouses, in the ashes of the housethat caught on fire. I’m searching for tracesof computer code, for digital signatures,for fingerprints on goblets, for the soundtrackof the mystery series that is my life. I was bornwith titian hair and a penchant for secrets. When you lose your mother, you keep searchingeverywhere for her. You keep a lock of her hairin your diary. You keep a key that onceopened a safe that no longer exists.There’s no such thing as ghosts,but you keep seeing them anyway. With so many hidden cameras now, so manycell phones, you’d think you wouldn’t need meskulking in the shadows, trailing the suspect,adding things up and taking away the receipts.But there’s always a false bottom to the drawer,a hidden passage, a trap door, a note the murdervictim left before she died in invisible ink,or scrawled on a window. A scarf the policedidn’t notice. A footprint. That’s it: the things we lose aren’t alwaysso easy to track. The ghosts we seek stay just beyond [End Page 113] our reach. But don’t worry; I won’t leave my post.My blue convertible a chariot for lost souls.I’ll be here, always vigilant for that missedconnection, a guidepost for the misplaced. [End Page 114] Jeannine Hall Gailey Jeannine Hall Gailey is a poet with multiple sclerosis who served as the second poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Field Guide to the End of the World (winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the Elgin Award), and the upcoming Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. She has a bs in biology and ma in English from the University of Cincinnati and an mfa from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in such journals as the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and POETRY magazine. Visit www.webbish6.com and @webbish6 (Twitter and Instagram) Copyright © 2021 University of Nebraska Press

Forensic Psychiatry and Psychopathology: An Amendment in Contemporary Period

Abstract: As stated by Jaspers, a delusion is a deviant assessment of reality that is irredeemably believed. Therefore, while the delusions are apprehended with the uncommon verdict and are not open to rationality, their irrationality or wrongness is obvious to other persons. While Norman Cameron’s pseudo-community, a supposed community of conspirators, was a historical description of conditions that promote the development of delusional disorders, modern technology and advancement of new communicative tools, like smartphone, hidden camera, satellite, internet, and stealthy or scheming tricks or setups, like double-crossing and masquerading scenarios, stressful circumstances, furtive or hectic arrangements, creating a scene to deceive, hack, or tampering, have brought about the possibility of a conspiracy by prejudiced or inimical people, which may amplify the conceivable diagnostic faults by the perplexity of circumstances. On the other hand, it is the duty of forensic and clinical psychiatrists to guess or discover any kind of deceptive entrapment or simulation. In the present article, the said eccentricities, which may have been accelerated by modern technology, have been discussed briefly, especially with respect to paranoia and paranoid ideation. Moreover, some clarifications for better demarcation of the discussed problem and modification of operational definitions in the realm of psychopathology have been suggested. Certainly, ample watchfulness by a clinical or forensic psychiatrist for neutralizing a thinkable intrigue is an apposite performance for improving civil rights and preventing preventable slips.

A Qualitative Study on the Effects of Hidden Cameras on the Everyday Lives and Romantic Relationships of Female College Students

A Qualitative Study on the Effects of Hidden Cameras on the Everyday Lives and Romantic Relationships of Female College Students

La veracidad en la libertad de información: consideraciones para un nuevo alcance

La irrupción y disponibilidad de nuevas tecnologías han permitido que los ciudadanos pasen hacia un rol activo en el tráfico informativo. Frente a los fenómenos como las cámaras ocultas, y más recientemente la desinformación, ha quedado en evidencia que la comprensión jurídica clásica de la diligencia en libertad de información no resulta suficiente para responder a los nuevos paradigmas informativos. Habrá que considerar que la opinión pública ya no sólo se construye a partir de los medios institucionalizados, que quienes informan no son necesariamente profesionales de la información y que para alcanzar la veracidad en la información se requerirán otros y mayores niveles de diligencia y responsabilidad. A partir de estos fenómenos se ha configurado un nuevo canon para la ponderación del grado de injerencia permitido frente a los derechos de la personalidad, así como nuevas fórmulas de regulación que suponen las bases para una nueva compresión jurídica de la libertad de información.

Measuring the Impact of Audio/Visual Aids on Learning Process: A Case Study of South Punjab

The present research was designed to evaluate the effects of audio visual aids on the learning process of student of Multan city in Punjab (Pakistan).This study employed field observation method as a research design of this research. For the purpose of measurement, the researcher has installed hidden cameras inside the classrooms and followed the covert observation for measuring the level of attention of the students through recoding during the lecture. The sample was drawn using convenient sampling techniques. For the purpose of investigation, 112 research subjects from Punjab government’s registered school were selected for the purpose of data collection. The findings of the study revealed that the experimental group students got better grade than control group. 57.1% students secure A and 42.9% students secure b grade. Findings further explained that a majority of the students form experimental group have high and medium level of attention in multimedia lecture. The study concluded that education with the help of audio visual (A/V) aids is more beneficial for school going students.

Body Image and Voluntary Gaze Behaviors towards Physique-Salient Images.

The purpose of this study was to explore body image correlates of voluntary consumption of physique-salient media. A secondary aim was to assess changes in affect following media consumption. Young adult men (n = 47; mean age = 20.2 years) and women (n = 87; mean age = 19.5 years) were discretely exposed to images of same-sex models with idealized- and average-physiques while completing an irrelevant computer task. Voluntary gaze at the images was covertly recorded via hidden cameras. Participants also completed measures of affect before and after the computer task. Measures of body-related envy, body appreciation, and self-perceptions of attractiveness, thinness, and physical strength were completed. Men and women did not differ in how often nor for how long they looked at the images overall, but body image variables were differentially associated with their voluntary gaze behaviors. For men, higher body-related envy and lower body appreciation were correlated with more looks at the average-physique model. Although women reported higher body-related envy than men, envy and body appreciation were not significant correlates of gaze behaviors for women. Both men and women experienced a general affective decrease over time, but only for men was the change in negative affect associated with their time spent looking at the ideal-physique image. Overall, these findings suggest that body-related envy and body appreciation influence how men choose to consume physique-salient media, and that media consumption may have negative consequences for post-exposure affect. Body image factors appear to be more strongly associated with behavior in men, perhaps because men are generally less often exposed to physique-salient media and, in particular, to average-physique images.

Psychopathology and Operational Definition of Signs and Symptoms in Present Forensic Psychiatry: A Second Look

Jaspers regarded a delusion as a perverted view of reality that is incorrigibly held. According to him, delusions have three components: They are held with unusual conviction, and are not amenable to logic; meanwhile the absurdity or erroneousness of their content is manifest to other people. While Norman Cameron’s pseudo-community, a supposed community of conspirators, was a historical description about conditions that favor the development of delusional disorders, modern technology and advancement of new communicative tools, like smart phone, hidden camera, satellite, internet, stealthy or scheming tricks and setups, like double-crossing and masquerading scenarios, stressful circumstances, furtive or hectic arrangements, creating a scene to deceive, hack, or tampering, have brought about an increasing possibility of conspiracy by prejudiced or inimical people, which may amplify the conceivable diagnostic faults by more curbing of examiner’s vigilance. On the other hand, it is the duty of forensic and clinical psychiatrist to discover any kind of deceptive entrapment or simulation. In the present article, such eccentricities, which may have come about in new time, have been discussed briefly, especially with respect to Paranoia and Paranoid ideation, and some solutions for better demarcation of the pertained problems and completion of psychopathological operational definitions have been suggested, incidentally, for defending the individuals’ civil rights.

A FOUCAULDIAN READING OF DAVE EGGERS'S THE CIRCLE

Post-Modernism has begun after modernism. In the post-modern period, the post-structuralists have been interested in many fields such as sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, etc. Michel Foucault, who is one of the French post-structuralists, published his Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison in 1975. In this work, he analyses the social mechanisms and defines the theory of Panopticism, which was first put forward by Jeremy Bentham. The term of Panopticism can be explained as a feeling of being followed by an invisible eye metaphorically confining people and oppressing them due to the continuous observation, discipline and punishment that it brings about. Therefore, an individual has to be under control as if s/he were always watched. The Circle, which was published in 2013 by American author Dave Eggers, is a dystopian novel. The novel is based on the experiences of a young girl, Mae Holland and the situation of technology in today’s world. In this novel, Eggers portrays an oppressive system which controls the people through the hidden cameras. This paper will shed light on the similarities between Foucault’s theory of Panopticism, which is introduced and discussed in his Discipline and Punish, and Dave Eggers’ dystopian novel The Circle by revealing Eggers’ criticism on how surveillance is applied through technology in today’s world.

Review of interpretation criteria according to the benefit of the law of a hidden camera crime

Review of interpretation criteria according to the benefit of the law of a hidden camera crime

The ECHR Grand Chamber ‘López Ribalda II’ Judgement Dated 17 October 2019. Analysis on the Validity of Concealed Cameras Based on Case Law from the Spanish Constitutional Court

This article analyses the new ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ‘López Ribalda II’ and the possibility for employers to use hidden video surveillance cameras in order to monitor employees in the workplace. The criteria of the Spanish Constitutional Court and the first judgement of the ECHR in the ‘López Ribalda’ case are also studied in order to understand the evolving criteria and the importance of the new ECHR decision for the future of labour relationships. In short, the new ruling of the ECHR ‘López Ribalda II’ justifies the installation of hidden cameras due to the existence of reasonable suspicions of employee’s irregularities when this is a proportional decision and there are no less intrusive measures. ECHR, hidden cameras, fundamental rights, privacy, suspicions, proportionality principle, video surveillance, irregularities.

Fuzzy rule based intelligent system for user authentication based on user behaviour

Security of the data is one of the major concerns now a days. To secure data text–based authentication vulnerable to attacks like shoulder surfing, hidden cameras and hackers. To avoid these attacks, biometric schemes are useful by means of face recognition, voice recognition, thumb impression detection, fingerprint detection etc which is more costly as it requires some external equipments. In this paper, we proposed a security system based on fuzzy rule based intelligent system which can be used for authentication process based on the user’s behavior. The behavioral biometrics such as typing pattern, time and speed of a particular person can be recorded through keyboard even without the knowledge of the user, and need not to fill any form or to install any additional hardware, thus it is cost effective and robust in security aspect.

A Study on the Practical Problems of the Analysis and Application of hidden camera Crimes and their Improvement Direction

A Study on the Practical Problems of the Analysis and Application of hidden camera Crimes and their Improvement Direction

The canons of capturing reality in the documentary cinema of the 1960s

The essay deals with the problems of new expressive means that appeared in Soviet documentaries in the late 1950s 1960s. It analyzes the main expressive means of capturing the new screen reality on examples of Castles in the Sand (dir. Yakov Bronstein and Algimantas Vidugiris), Katyusha (dir. Viktor Lisakovich), Marinas Life (dir. Leonid Kvinikhidze), Look at the Face (dir. Pavel Kogan), and Nikolai Amosov (dir. Taimuraz Zoloev). Its main interests are plastic solutions, the frame structure, the designation of the object of shooting and the author's presence in the interframe space or inside the frame; changes in the attitudes of the author and the protagonists, the authors attention to personality, and the expressiveness of human presence in the film.&#x0D; The essay discusses the existential and philosophical components of the documentary films of that period, as well as changes in the aesthetic and ideological pictures of the world, which influenced the principle of capturing reality and the concept of authenticity. Documentaries of the Thaw are viewed via the formation of new canons of capturing screen reality, including new capturing techniques (hidden camera, habitual camera, method of provocation), principles of intraframe editing and new space-time frame characteristics. The principles of intraframe editing, new spatial and temporal characteristics of the frame are presented in the progressive analysis of assembly phrases and the compositional structure of the frame of films. The author examines the principles of the formation of the protagonists' characters, the positioning of a person within the frame and the general stylistic paradigm of documentary genres. Taking as examples film portraits, film essays and polemical films, the essay explores novel means of forming spectator paradigms in the documentaries of the Thaw within the context of the authors attitude towards the selected material and the protagonist.