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The Cars in Your Life

Name: The Cars in Your Life
Duration: 29 min

1960 | 29 min

Terence Macartney-Filgate (The Back-breaking Leaf) takes a light, humorous look at the automobile circa 1960, and the Great American itch for a place on the road. From a used-car lot to the public highways, slow-motion and stylized photography provide a provocative, revealing look at a people’s obsession with cars.

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Credits

director

Terence Macartney-Filgate
camera

Wolf Koenig
production assistant

Gilles Gascon
editing

Bruce Parsons
sound

Clifford Griffin

Karl Duplessis

Ron Alexander
commentary

Stanley Jackson
producer

Wolf Koenig

Roman Kroitor
executive producer

Tom Daly
sound editing

Kathleen Shannon

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