An American Family is an American television documentary filmed from May 30 through December 31, 1971 and first aired in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in early 1973. After being edited down from about 300 hours of raw footage, the series ran one season of 12 episodes on Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m.
Originally intended as a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds — an upper-middle-class family in Santa Barbara, California — the groundbreaking program documented the break-up of the family via the separation and subsequent divorce of parents Bill and Pat Loud.The documentary inspired spoofs such as the Albert Brooks feature film Real Life (1979).
A year after this programme was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode programme, called The Family, focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England. An American television documentary links in with my critical investigation. It was first aired in 1973.
The clip first starts of with an establishing shot of the building which is pretty similar to KUWTK. There is some background noises whilst the establishing shot of the building arrives and it zooms out, which is what KUWTK do as well. As the lady comes up the stairs and her speech is, "I have a present for you" we wonder who she is talking too. This leaves the audience in enigma. Then we hear and see a woman and she says in shock "for me" which initially means it was a surprise present. Also, she asks who is it from, the other lady states from your ex husband, initially implying they've broken up. Furthermore, this is a medium shot which allows us to see both the ladies body languages and facial expressions. The lighting is natural lighting from the lights, which gives it the realism affect. Then we hear a noise of something and again are put into enigma, then we see a guy coming and he snatches the piece of paper from the ladies hand and reads out "it says after 20 half years" and they all walk on. There are different types of shots within this, which are similar to some shot now in KUWTK. However, the angles of these aren't very steady, and it seems as if the script is planned as of the way they are talking.
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