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|title=In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us

|author=Francine Stock

|publisher=Pimlico

|date=October 2012

|summary=A personal view of cinema from its 1890s origins to the present day, examining different trends, changes and personal responses, and analysing selected films from each decade in turn

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Many of us have been captivated from an early age by the world of movies, whether introduced to them by visits to the cinema, or watching them on TV, video and latterly DVD. Author and presenter Francine Stock’s lifelong love affair with the medium began when she was taken as a child to see ‘My Fair Lady’ on the large screen. A little later, for her the most memorable thing about the summer of 1970 was not the weather, but repeated viewings of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’.