''Le chant du Styrène'' (lit. "The Song of Styrene") is a 13-minute long French

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

from 1958. It was directed by Alain Resnais for the French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics. The narration spoken by

Pierre Dux Pierre Dux (21 October 1908 – 1 December 1990) was a French stage director, stage actor, and film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Filmography References External links * * 1908 births 1990 deaths Burials ...

is a poem written by

Raymond Queneau Raymond Queneau (; 21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo ('' Ouvroir de littérature potentielle''), notable for his wit and cynical humour. Biography Queneau wa ...

, all in alexandrines, whose title is a pun on the phonetic resemblance of "styrene" to "siren".

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