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How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day
How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day

What the world’s oldest profession has to do with light pollution.

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An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone
An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone

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Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking
Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking

Multimedia landscape as a language pattern, or what Ezra Pound has to do with Twitter.

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Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980
Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980

Everything that could happen in a room, happening.

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A Beautiful Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s Poem “The Bluebird”
A Beautiful Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s Poem “The Bluebird”

Visual whimsy to make Bukowski’s magic shine.

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The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster

On finding the girl who is perfect from every direction.

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Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping
Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping

An Oscar-nominated abstract meditation on how we experience time.

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How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada
How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada

“In this factory no samples are given as souvenirs, though the practice would be a very popular one.”

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The First Kiss in Cinema: How Thomas Edison Scandalized the World in 1896
The First Kiss in Cinema: How Thomas Edison Scandalized the World in 1896

How Thomas Edison made the kiss Hollywood’s favorite audience-courting device.

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The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

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