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Films
Bakshy, Alexander | January 7, 1931 issue

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This article focuses on the technical achievements of the film industry. René Clair, the author and director of "Sous les Toits de Paris" enjoys the combined benefits of talent and good fortune. He has produced a picture that in many ways is a little masterpiece, and he has been lucky enough to be the first artist in a field that has been dominated by Hollywood robots. Indeed, so great is one's relief and delight at seeing a fresh mind, unencumbered with hollow conventions and equipped with taste, subtle wit, and imaginative insight, apply itself to fashioning a work of art that the shortcomings of the picture inevitably recede into the background.

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MOTION picture industry; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; CLAIR, Rene; ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; IMAGINATION
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