Elmer Bernstein
Born in New York City, New York, USA — Apr 04 1922• Died Aug 18 2004
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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won tw…
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The Oscars
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Fallen Angels
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The Ten Commandments
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Ghostbusters
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The Magnificent Seven
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The Great Escape
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Airplane!
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Cape Fear
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Trading Places
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The Blues Brothers
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Stripes
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An American Werewolf in London
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Wild Wild West
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True Grit
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Animal House
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The Rainmaker
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¡Three Amigos!
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Airplane II: The Sequel
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The Age of Innocence
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See No Evil
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Class
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
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Hoodlum
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The Grifters
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Oscar
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Big Jake
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The Good Son
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Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
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The Deep End of the Ocean
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Heavy Metal
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The Bridge at Remagen
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Bringing Out the Dead
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Michael Jackson's Thriller
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The Man with the Golden Arm
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A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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Keeping the Faith
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Far from Heaven
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General Electric Theater
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
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The Comancheros
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McQ
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Return of the Seven
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Bulletproof
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Funny Farm
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Buddy
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Birdman of Alcatraz
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Twilight
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Meatballs
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The Magnificent Seven Ride!
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Sudden Fear
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Sweet Smell of Success
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Guns of the Magnificent Seven
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Mad Dog and Glory
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This Year's Blonde
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The Field
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Rambling Rose
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Canadian Bacon
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Roommates
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The Hallelujah Trail
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Walk on the Wild Side
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The Tin Star
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The Black Cauldron
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Some Came Running
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The Rat Race
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The Shootist
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Little Women
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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Hud
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The Sons of Katie Elder
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Men in War
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Leonard Part 6
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Saturn 3
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Kings of the Sun
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Zulu Dawn
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The Good Mother
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The Babe
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Gold
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Legal Eagles
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The Buccaneer
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
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From Noon Till Three
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The Gypsy Moths
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Hawaii
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Da
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Spies Like Us
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Baby the Rain Must Fall
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The Silencers
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The Scalphunters
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7 Women
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
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The Miracle
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Slipstream
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Appointment With Destiny
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Summer and Smoke
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The Fabulous Fifties
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Doctors' Wives
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Cast a Giant Shadow
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Kings Go Forth
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Midas Run
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Five Days One Summer
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The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
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The Great Santini
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The Chosen
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Report to the Commissioner
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A Storm in Summer
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The Story on Page One
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Going Ape!
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Chinese Coffee
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Cahill: United States Marshal
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Love with the Proper Stranger
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Charleston
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Lost in Yonkers
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Incident on a Dark Street
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God's Little Acre
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
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Storm Fear
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Boots Malone
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The Rookies
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Where's Jack?
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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Amazing Grace and Chuck
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Genocide
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Robot Monster
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Honky Tonk Freeway
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From the Terrace
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A Rage in Harlem
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By Love Possessed
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Saddle the Wind
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Rampage
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Fear Strikes Out
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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Billy Jack Goes to Washington
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The World of Henry Orient
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Bloodbrothers
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The Cemetery Club
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
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Miss Robin Crusoe
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The Carpetbaggers
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A Girl Named Tamiko
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Never Wave at a WAC
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
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The Caretakers
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Drango
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Anna Lucasta
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
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Making 'Taxi Driver'
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The 3,000 Mile Chase
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The Reward
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The Young Doctors
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Desire Under the Elms
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Make Haste to Live
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The Incredible Sarah
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
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Frankie Starlight
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It's a Dog's Life
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A Walk in the Spring Rain
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Powers of Ten
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The Making of 'Cape Fear'
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Men of the Dragon
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Cannon for Cordoba
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The Eternal Sea
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Four Days In November
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Prince Jack
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Nightmare Honeymoon
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
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Serpico: The Deadly Game
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Puppies for Sale
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Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
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The View from Pompey's Head
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Imagining 'Heavy Metal'
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Frank Sinatra Memorial
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Fearful Symmetry
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The Tell-Tale Heart
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Search and Destroy
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Cat-Women of the Moon
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Saturday's Hero
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The Bold Men
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The Bible According to Hollywood
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The Trial of Billy Jack
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Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
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Battles of Chief Pontiac
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Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie
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Taking The Wheel
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The Making of the President 1960
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The Naked Eye
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Tops
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Appointment With Destiny: The Last Days of John Dillinger
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House: After Five Years of Living
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Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem
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Silent Raiders
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The Information Machine
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A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
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A Computer Glossary
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Nicholas Copernicus
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The Hollywood Soundtrack Story
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2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers
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An Introduction to Feedback
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IBM at the Fair
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Calypso's Search for the Britannic
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Toccata for Toy Trains
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Cezanne
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Computer Perspective
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Return Of The Ghostbusters
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The Smithsonian Institution
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A Communications Primer
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