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What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1986)
Directed by Noël Burch
TV Movie, Documentary · 2h 36m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Noël Burch
- Writer
- Noël Burch
- Producer
- Hubert Niogret
Details
- Release date
- 1986-07-18
- Runtime
- 2h 36m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom
- Production
- Channel 4 Television, Ministère de la Culture