Time out of mind (TEFC) | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Episode number 3 of Series “The Real thing”.
When is reality? In order to answer this question James Burke finds himself in a Salvador Dali-like landscape and examines what motivates man, why light can never stand still, and why one man’s “now” can be another man’s “then”

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Duration

00:29:00:00

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Unknown

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The Real thing

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The Real thing

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ACMI Identifier

015996

Language

English

Subject categories

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Brain

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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