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The Moat monster

United States, 1973
film

Infantile anxieties embodied in the apocryphal Moat Monster. Extraordinary document of unrestrained play, profiling a small group of pre-school children and t..

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Man, monsters and mysteries

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Monster madness

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Dans la vie

Canada, 1972
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