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Rain
- 1929 ----- b & w ----- 12 min ----- 16mm
- Directed by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken. Music score added in 1932 by Lou Lichtveld. A film poem depicting the moods and visual patterns produced by a rain shower in Amsterdam. It is one of the last of the great silent films and uses no titles. It is in the genre of the "city symphonies." It was photographed entirely with hand-held cameras. "Each drop of rain revealed a smile. They had unconsciously filmed in moments when everything that moved in the town was smiling, not brightly but tenderly."
- Topics: (Cities and Towns, Europe, Motion Pictures: Experimental)
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