Searching through youtube I found an interesting BBC news report on 'the rise of the animated documentary'. Ironically this News clip starts on the end of a clip of russian soldiers during the south ossetia conflict, then clips from Waltz with bashir are shwon not long afterwards, similar to that news footage clip.
the journalist asks the question 'why use a cartoon to tell a war story?'
As previously mentioned i think this is why WWB is so important in the history of modern animated documentary, nowadays animation is still regularly reffered to in a most derogatory way as 'Cartoons' which has a connotation of simplistic childlike, entertainment.
Animated documentaries have most often throughout their past history been pieces of either surreal painterly interpretations or playing on a nostalgic childlike cartoon for empathy/impact; And i believe this has been a dualism of strength & weakness for the genre.
Also mentioned is the increasingly potent link between animated documentary & Graphic Novel accounts, Which I will be writing about in a seperate post
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