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The Pencil

United States, 1971
film

A portrait of the pencil, showing the different types, its manufacture, use and abuse. A fascinating treatment of the subject, beautifully photographed, with ..

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Pencils

Canada, 1976
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Drawing with a pencil

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Sharpies [a documented history]

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The First moving picture show

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The Pencil of nature

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Mikhail Kaufman in Dziga Vertov’s Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera)

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The Portrait

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A Swiss peasant artist

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Modulations

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The History of the cinema

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