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You Can’t Fool a Camera (1941) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1941 · 10 mins · English
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- Starring
- Clark Gable, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Z. McLeod, George J. Folsey, Frank Whitbeck, Karl Freund
The short opens as a documentary, reenacting Eadward Muybridge’s photographic experiments that proved a galloping horse lifts all four feet off the ground. It then jumps to MGM, showing directors and cinematographers at work on current films, and ends with closeups of the studio’s leading stars and a tribute to actors serving in the armed forces.
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