/sin"euh meuh ver'i tay"/ ; Fr. /see nay mah vay rddee tay"/
1. a technique of documentary filmmaking in which the camera records actual persons and events without directorial control: introduced in France in the 1950s.
2. a film using this technique or a simulation of it.
[ 1960-65; cinéma-vérité lit., cinema-truth, coined as a trans. of Russ kinoprávda, a documentary technique developed by the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) ]