How things have changed

When filming in the football ground it made me consider how much things have changed because before the 1950's you did not have light-weight camera's and equipment and you could not sync the sound. This made me think how impossible really it would have been for us trying to film in a football ground if we didn't have small, light-weight cameras to use and ones that can record the own decent quality sound as well. 
I was reading in John Corners book 'The art of record' that British drama-documentaries came from the story-documentaries that were about during the documentary film movement around the Second World World in the 30's. These documentaries involved using reconstruction a lot of the time because it was so hard to get 'actuality' footage or actual footage of things in certain locations because of the fact they didn't have lightweight equipment. 
Reconstructions would overcome this problem because you could use actors to play the parts and show what you originally wanted to show but couldn't access due to these restraints. Although this was done at the time as a way around their problems reconstruction and dramatisation has become very popular within documentaries now because they normally offer us a much more entertaining insight to things.

Sources:

Corner, John (1996) The art of record. Manchester University Press, Manchester & Newyork