HANDS
RALPH STEINER
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3m 55s
HANDS is an ingenious piece of propaganda that communicated not only through its content but through the very unconventionality of its "experimental structure." The film suggests that the government that produced it is imaginative and inventive, open to new possibilities and supportive of forms of free expression. — Scott MacDonald
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