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"As part of a citywide centennial celebration of Amos Vogel (1921–2012), the pioneering cofounder of Cinema 16 and the New York Film Festival and the author of Film as a Subversive Art, MoMA presents several programs of science-and-nature films that were featured in Cinema 16 screenings between 1947 and 1963. Organized, in the spirit of Vogel’s wit and iconoclasm, by themes of “animal,” “vegetable,” and “mineral,” these programs include MoMA’s own restoration of Alexander Hammid’s The Private Life of a Cat (1947); the French documentary Life Begins Tomorrow (1950), the first X-rated film shown in British cinemas, which was directed by Nicole Védrès, edited by Alain Resnais, and stars Pablo Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others; and Charles and Ray Eames’s A Communication Primer (1963)." - MoMA