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What Is... a Door?

Don White

1999 4 min

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What is... a Door? is an eye-opening visual journey through the hidden secrets and familiar sights and sounds of doors. Film without words.

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What is... a Door? is an eye-opening visual journey through the hidden secrets and familiar sights and sounds of doors. Film without words.

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Credits

• director
  Don White
  
• cinematography
  Don White
  
• producer
  George Johnson
  
• executive producer
  Svend-Erik Eriksen
  
• editing
  Jeanne Slater
  
• sound design
  Gael MacLean
  
• re-recording mixer
  Hennie Britton
  

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