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
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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