Frank Film

Frank Film

Frank Film

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Frank Film

1973

0h 9m

5.7(31 votes)

Animation

Overview

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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Frank Mouris

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Frank Mouris

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