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We Edit Life

2002-03-15 · 10 min · ★ 9.0

This is the first in a series of films using documentary, industrial and educational film footage from the Prelinger Archive and The Internet Archive. The film explores the theme of technology, showing how the future can be edited and manipulated through advances in computer science. As the narrative in the film says "The art of computer graphics is only in its infancy yet it is already stimulating creative thought in far out areas where research is likely to get complex and unwieldy".

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People Like Us
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Lovebytes, Studio of the North
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United Kingdom
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