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NEW ZEALAND · 1942

Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes

Len Lye
industrial labor factory work collective effort wartime production social realism
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Synopsis

A film, movie, or motion picture is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and sometimes using other sensory stimuli. Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras or by creating them using an

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