The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
Honess Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Paraphrasing:
Honess Roe (2013, Animated Documentary) states that because of the indexical relationship between image and reality, it is essential for the authenticity of a documentary to have its documentary images linked to realism.