Talk about your multi-format projects — An Inconvenient Truth has so many visual personalities it's dizzying. The core of the film is Al Gore's traveling presentation on global warming, which was captured during a four-camera HDCAM shoot. That throughline is broken up with short interstitial documentary pieces dealing with Gore's life off the lecture circuit (including that whole President-of-the-United-States thing a few years back) that were shot by director Davis Guggenheim on a panoply of different formats, from Super 8 and 16mm to HDV and MiniDV. We asked Guggenheim and editor Dan Swietlik to talk about pulling the project together.
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