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Life at 24 Frames a Second: Happy Endings

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Critic and writer David Thomson goes in search of happiness on the big screen.

Author and film critic David Thomson explores how cinema has changed him - and us: happiness on the big screen. From 2011.

Escaping into the world of flickering dreams, finding happiness over the rainbow, and realizing that everything is going to be all right in the end is one of cinema's most powerful allures. But is the chase more appealing than the pay off?

Critic and writer David Thomson goes in search of happiness on the big screen in his personal history of cinema.

Producer: Mark Burman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.

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David Thomson takes a personal journey through how cinema has changed us

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