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Release, runtime and language
2002 · 60 mins · English
Directed by
Françoise Levie
Starring
Manuela Servais, Michel Guillou

Born in 1868, Belgian Paul Otlet spent his life refining the Dewey Classification into the Universal Decimal Classification. By the time of his death in 1944 he had compiled an astonishing 17 million index cards, representing a vast portion of human knowledge.

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