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Lumiere's Children

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Five programmes which explore the way art and technology have intertwined over the past century of film.
4: Snakes, Funerals and 1.33-to-l
Director Fritz Lang once protested that widescreen was fit only for snakes and funerals, but Christopher Cook finds that film-makers have always sought to immerse their audiences in the total experience of cinema with new and improved screen processes. First broadcast on Radio 3

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Director:
Fritz Lang
Unknown:
Christopher Cook

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