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Magic Box, The - (Movie Clip) But The Encyclopaedia...

Young Graham (John Charlesworth) has gotten into a fight defending his obscure-inventor father William Friese-Greene (Robert Donat) as the inventor of the motion picture camera, in The Magic Box, 1951.

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