In Mr Bergman's films, characters would often be silent, or scenes would unroll with no sound but the whimper of wind, the drip of water or, especially, the tick and chime of watches and clocks.
Paderni simply took a knife to them, and though his contemporary Antonio Piaggio, a conservator from the Vatican, managed to build a rack that suspended them from silken threads, letting them unroll under their own weight for months on end, they still tended to break into pieces.
Unlike a painting or a still photograph, the originality of moving-image art is to unroll in time.
But the steely ayatollahs, Caring more for power than dollars— Not that they would close their palms To the faithful's proffered alms— Knew that they would lose control If they let reform unroll.
Several techniques were used over the years to unroll some of the scrolls in order to study their texts but this led to an unacceptable degree of damage and so this approach was abandoned some years ago in favour of a non-destructive method.
The carpets are made in the outlying villages and despatched to the vendors, who serve you mint tea as they unroll rug after gorgeous rug in front of you.
The best way to do this is to roll the pastry around the rolling pin, then unroll it over the flan ring and ease the pastry into the ring with your hands.
They belong to the lower vascular plant division Pteridophyta, having leaves usually with branching vein systems; the young leaves usually unroll from a tight fiddlehead, or crozier.
The movie clings tight to the events of the book, which begin with a plotted briskness but soon unroll into a chain of successive miseries.
Some of this was impressive — for example, in the new "Prokofiev Pas de Deux," a love duet that, however complicated, seemed to unroll in one long ribbon.
It took three people to carry the canvas, and several more to unroll it over the dingy carpet that covered the workshop's earth floor.
