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The Age of Invention - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB523105
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Albert Kish, Adam Symansky, Barrie Howells
Directors:  Albert Kish
Producing Agencies:  National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject:  Documentary, History, Social Issues, Tech/Voc
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1984
Running Time:  10:45


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The Age of Invention is a filmic poem about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. A montage of images and sounds re-creates a bygone era--scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, rhythmic, rumbling steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives; changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history; changing them forever.


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