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Released
2003 · FILM

The Wooden Camera

Runtime
92 min
Family

Synopsis

A township near Cape Town. Two young teens, Madiba and Sipho, find a gun and a camera. Sipho takes the gun, and Madiba the camera, sealing their fate.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kako KelberShot by Gordon SpoonerScored by Phil SawyerDesigned by Jean Vincent Puzos

Also known as

  • Die hölzerne Kamerade
  • La Caméra de boisfr

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