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By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff / January 11, 2009

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The past really is another country One of the great challenges filmmakers face is how to depict the past convincingly. Not the recent past - props and costumes can handle that - but the past before there was film. At some unconscious level, the viewer knows there weren't cameras then, as there were, say, during the '50s or even World ... (Full article: 814 words)

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