What Do Those Old Films Mean? (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: France, United Kingdom
- Producer: Noël Burch
- Production companies: Channel 4 Television, Ministère de la culture
- Genre: TV Movie, Documentary
- Release date: 11/16/1985
- Run time: 156 min.
Movie description
Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with various social theories about their significance.
