The Song of Styrene (1958)

Original title

Le chant du Styrène

Directed by

Alain Resnais

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

14 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short documentary about plastic manufacturing. It was made for an industrial company and uses a poem written in rhyming verse as its narration.

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What happens

Le chant du Styrène (lit. "The Song of Styrene") is a 13-minute long French documentary film from 1958. It was directed by Alain Resnais for the French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics. The narration spoken by Pierre Dux is a poem written by Raymond Queneau, all in alexandrines, whose title is a pun on the phonetic resemblance of "styrene" to "siren". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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