The longest film ever to be screened

If you thought Titanic was a long film, think again. That was a mere trailer in comparison to “Cinematon”, a French film lasting 150 hours that will be screened later this month. Lasting more than six days it will premiere in Avignon this month and will also be screened in Paris in January.
Cinematon has been filmed by Gerard Courant, who asked his artistic friends to spend three minutes and 25 seconds each in front of the camera doing as they please - the result is 150 hours of footage, and Courant hasn’t stopped filming yet. With this mammoth work of art Courant will certainly enter the record books, joining the following films…
Shortest filmThe 1 Second Film is a 70mm animated film made by Nirvan Mullick that's just one second long. The film features 12 giant paintings, each created by hundreds of people. Each painting is filmed twice to fill the 24 frames which make up the second of film
Cheapest filmBrit film maker Marc Price's impressed critics at Cannes this year with his zombie flick “Colin”. He made the film while working full time as a courier, and it cost him the only humble sum of £45
Most expensive film
The third Pirates of the Caribbean film “ At World's End” is said to be the most expensive film ever made with an estimated production budget of $300
Longest film in production”Thief and the Cobbler” began production in1964 and wasn’t completed until 1995, a total of 31 years. Conceived by Canadian animator Richard Williams as a milestone in the art of animation, he worked on the project for 26 years.

Question 1. Indicate whether these sentences are true or false. Justify your answers with evidence from the text.
a) People in Paris will be the first to watch “Cinematon”
b) The actors in “Cinematon “ have no script to follow.
c) Mark Price surely had plenty of time to make “Colin”.
d) Richard Williams wanted his film to be innovative.

Question 2. Answer the following questions in your own words.
a) Who are the stars in “Cinematon” and what do they do in the film?
b) What do all the films mentioned in the text have in common?

Question 3. Find a word or a phrase in the text that means the same as
a) simple (par.1) b) stars (par.3) c) calculated (par.5)

Question 4. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning
a) No other film in the history of the cinema is as long as “Cinematon “.
Cinematon is ______________________________________
b) “Cinematon” has been filmed by Gerard Courant.
Gerard Courant ____________________________________
c) “At World´s End” is said to be the most expensive film.
People say _______________________________________

Question 5. Write a short essay (120-150 words) on the following topic:
What kind of films do you like? Why?

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