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Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment
Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media of news and entertainment
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a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage
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