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as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology
behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production
in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, he set up a studio fitted with
film equipment that was almost entirely of his own fabrication.
He wrote scripts, built sets, and innovated new methods of sound
recording and transmission. As an enthusiastic inventor, he produced
and directed the first Syrian film with sound. His dream was to
film and screen a 3D film. An ode to cinema, this documentary is
a long interview with Shahbandar.
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