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Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema

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Original title: Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
Year: 2010
Running time: 60 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Paul Merton
Screenwriter: Paul Merton, Suki Webster
Cast: Documentary
Music: Neil Brand
Producer: BBC
Genre: Documentary | Movie Documentary. Half-length Film
Synopsis: Paul Merton goes in search of the origins of screen comedy in the forgotten world of silent cinema - not in Hollywood, but closer to home in pre-1914 Britain and France.
Revealing the unknown stars and lost masterpieces, he brings to life the pioneering techniques and optical inventiveness of the virtuosos who mastered a new art form. With a playful eye and comic sense of timing, Merton combines the role of presenter and director to recreate the weird and wonderful world that is early European cinema in a series of cinematic experiments of his own.

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Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema

2010

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