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Twenty-Four Frames a Second

The Lids That Lift Themselves

Chapter 61 · for subscribers

Four tiers, eighty-two bays, and a rule learned in sixty years of tins: a can that has gone lifts its own lid. At eleven o'clock they went down the first row by lamplight without touching a single one of them, counting lids that stood up off their rims. By half past nobody in the doorway was calling it a hall of film any more.

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