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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

1995, Movie, PG, 85 mins

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey: Review

You may not know what a theremin looks like, but you know exactly how it sounds: It makes that eerie woo-ee-woo noise at the beginning of the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations." This engrossing documentary looks at the life of the Russian-born scientist who invented it, quite by accident, when he was trying to build a radio. From the Kremlin to Carnegie Hall, to imprisonment in Soviet labor camps and mental hospitals, to eventual employment by the KGB, Leon Theremin's life is so ... read more leave a comment