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Tables of Content is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Wendy Tilby and released in 1986. Made as her graduating class project in the filmmaking program at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, the film depicts an elderly man dining alone in a restaurant and observing the sights and sounds around him.
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