Mutoscope Reels

Mutoscope Reels

Mutoscope Reels

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Mutoscope Reels

1945

0h 2m

6.0(1 votes)

Animation

Overview

An mutoscope motion picture installation commissioned for the 86th anniversary of the Guggenheim museum. Later preserved and turned into a short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

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