
Film Is. (1-12)
2004-01-01 · 78 min · ★ 8.5
A condensed omnibus of all twelve chapters of Film ist. by Gustav Deutsch. Chapters 1-6 consists almost exclusively, of sequences from existing scientific films, while chapters 7-12 is a collection of moving pictures from the first thirty years of a medium which was then still silent.
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- Gustav Deutsch
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