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Cosmic Ray

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Producing House

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1962-03-01

Runtime: 4 mins

Director: Bruce Conner

Spoken language: English

Genres: Music, History

Original title: Cosmic Ray

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Production Countries: United States of America

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