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Ken Loach has maintained a practice of social realist cinema and television in Britain since the 1960s, consistently working with non-professional actors and naturalistic dialogue to document the lives of the British working class. Kes (1969) remains one of the most admired British films of the postwar period. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice - for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) - at an age when most directors have retired.
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The Arriflex 35 BL (Blimped Lightweight), introduced in 1972, was the first self-blimped 35mm motion picture camera quiet enough for sync-sound shooting without an external housing. Its mirror-reflex viewfinder and rugged construction made it a standard tool in European and independent filmmaking from the 1970s onward.
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