History of film documentary
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Documentary film
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
documentary by Mark Cousins
| The Story of Film: An Odyssey | |
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Film poster | |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Based on | The Story of Film by Mark Cousins |
| Written by | Mark Cousins |
| Directed by | Mark Cousins |
| Narrated by | Mark Cousins |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Producer | John Archer |
| Editor | Timo Langer |
| Running time | minutes |
| Production company | Hopscotch Films |
| Network | More4 |
| Release | 3 September&#;()&#;– 10 December &#;() |
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his book The Story of Film.[1][2]
The series was broadcast in September on More4, the digital television service of UK broadcaster Channel 4. The Story of Film was featured in its entirety at the Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and at the Istanbul International Film Festival.[4] It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in February [1] It was broadcast in the United States on Turner Classic Movi
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Authentic talking cinema: the history of documentary
Though scholars of early film have been much preoccupied with the emergence of storytelling and narrative, the dominant mode of early cinema – beginning with the first films of the Lumières in – was in fact the actuality, or what might be called documentary before documentary.
An instinct for what Siegfried Kracauer described as the “seizure of physical reality” produced a huge variety of images, which despite their brief and fragmentary character were not without ideological implications, since they generally reproduced social stereotypes unthinkingly and frequently projected and enhanced the iconic imagery of state power and authority.
Cinema was born in the ‘civilised’ countries of Europe and North America, and these early films also traded on exotic pictures from every corner of the world, which not surprisingly reflected the colonial ideology of the day. The French at this time used the term ‘documentaire’ for what in English was called the travelogue, which emerged before World War I as one of the most popular proto-documentary genres, along with wonders-of-science and expedition films. And the recent rediscovery in Britain of the work of Mitchell & Kenyon reminds us that turning the camera on your own co