Synopsis
Promotes Brazil's wartime press as "modern" and "free."
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- Running time
- 10 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Stop the Presses! · Christine Hennig · 2003-11-17
Ho-hum, another boring film about Brazilwait a minute. This film is full of gentle surprises, mostly from the narrator, who narrates in a breezy, sly style, throwing in little jokes when you least suspect them, and generally not taking the proceedings too seriously. The film is about newspaper production in Sao Paulo (the Detroit of Brazil, the opening title card tells us, or is Detroit really the Sao Paulo of the United States?) and it is actually one of the clearest and best-made factory tours Ive ever seen. This really gives you a good idea of what newspaper publishing was like back in the…
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