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In the early 1980s I attended the Ottawa Animation Festival, where I saw a handful of silent shorts that…
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Film buffs and aficionados of stop-motion animation have been frustrated for years because The Lost World, the 1925 feature…
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I am back on an exercise bike every morning, which gives me an opportunity to catch up with DVDs…
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