Call yourself a film fan? Try sitting through Cinematon, the world's longest film. It's taken 30 years to make and is an astounding 150 hours long. Soon to be screened in France, the film - which Gerard Courant started making in 1978 - comprises a collection of three and a half minute segments of footage from celebrities, artists, philosophers and journalists. Hardly a continuous storyline, so don't worry about needing to pop out to the loo or refilling your popcorn.
If you do want to test your film love and embark on this marathon movie mission you might want to know it will take more than 6 days without sleep to complete and is the equivalent of watching Titanic 46 times!
Courant only intended to film 100 short portraits and edit them together, but it proved so popular that, what would have been a five hour film, turned into 150 hours.
Whether anyone will be able to devour Courant's masterpiece in its entirety at the French cinema is not yet known, but one bit they should hope to stay awake for is his favourite sketch where a seven-month-old baby "shows the whole spectrum of human emotion in less than four minutes."
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