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What Do Those Old Films Mean?

TV Movie, Documentary | 1985-11-16 | France, United Kingdom

IMDB6.0 / 10

Budget$0

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Runtime156 min.

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with various social theories about their significance.

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Channel 4 Television
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Ministère de la culture

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