Eat the Document audience. "Eat The Document" was never given a theatrical release or made commercially available on VHS or DVD, but unauthorized bootleg copies circulate among Dylan collectors. Some of the concert footage shot for "Eat the Document" - including the "Judas" incident in Manchester's Free Trade Hall - was used in Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary, "No Direction Home". Todd Haynes's film 2008 "I'm Not There" features a nod to the cab ride with Lennon, featuring Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan. Eat the Document Eat the Document is a documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks.
Documentary mode could now realize Vertov’s vision and sought to bring real truth to the documentary milieu. Unlike the subjective content of poetic documentary, or the rhetorical insistence of expositional documentary, observational documentaries tend to simply observe, allowing viewers to reach whatever conclusions they may deduce. Pure observational documentarians proceeded under some bylaws: no music, no interviews, no scene arrangement of any kind, and no narration. The fly-on-the-wall perspective is championed, while editing processes use long takes and few cuts. Resultant footage appears as though the viewer is witnessing first-hand the experiences of the subject: they travel with Bob Dylan to England