Glimpse of the Garden

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Glimpse of the Garden is a 1957 five-minute short experimental film made by Marie Menken, showing film clips of a garden, [1] with birds chirping for the soundtrack. [2] [3] In 1958, the film won an award at the Exposition Universelle et Internationale at Brussels. In 2007, the film was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation. [4] [5]

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