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Encyclopedia Britannica
In this 1971 film, using one frame of film for each page of the thirtytwo-volume set, conceptual artist John Latham (1921-2006) transforms Encyclopedia Britannica, often considered the embodiment of human knowledge, into an accelerating stream of images.