The Hollywood illusionist made a film of himself meeting, supposedly, the composer of Peter and the Wolf.
You don’t have to look too closely to see that it’s not Prokofiev but a body double.
He was a composer called Ingolf Dahl, a Stravinsky assistant well known in Hollywood.
This is what they did before they hd AI.
Worth watching, nonetheless.
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