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Oct 2012
24m 14s

Film Pioneers and Yiddish Filmmaking

National Theatre
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Film historian Christopher Frayling talks to Joel Finler about the early Hollywood film-makers - including the Eastern Europeans Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, and Louis B Mayer - as depicted in the National Theatre play, Travelling Light. This is an archive recording of a live Platform event from April 2012. 
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