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What's Cooking?

What's Cooking?

What then is cooking?

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Animation

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Originally shown as part of Channel 4's series of shorts 'Women Call The Shots' on UK TV in 1986. The ingredients of animation are a motorcar, a dressmaker's dummy, and a glass of brandy. Out of the frying pan and into the fire goes sex and politics. What then is cooking?

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

14 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

01 January 1986

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

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