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The story of film [videorecording] : an odyssey /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: MBFHE046 | Music Box FilmsPublication details: [United States] : Music Box Films, [2012]Description: 5 videodiscs (915 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4309 23
LOC classification:
  • TR848 .S76 2012
Contents:
Disc 1. 1895 - 1918: The World discovers a new art form -- 1918 - 1928: The triumph of American film and the first of its rebels -- 1918 - 1932; The great rebel filmmakers around the world -- disc 2. 1930's: The great American movie genres and the brilliance of European film -- 1939 - 1957: The swollen story: World cinema bursting at the seams -- 1957 - 1964: Shock of the new, modern filmmaking in Western Europe -- 1965 - 1969:New waves sweep around the world -- 1967 - 1979: New American cinema -- disc 4. 1969 - 1979:Radical directors in the 70's make state of the nation movies -- 1970's and onwards:Innovation in popular culture and around the world -- 1980's: Moviemaking and protest around the world -- disc 5. 1990 - 1998: The last days of celluloid before the coming of digital -- 1990's: The first days of digital: Reality losing its realness in America and Australia. -- 2000 onwards:Film moves full circle and the future of movies.
Production credits:
  • Editor, Timo Langer ; producer, John Archer.
Cast: Presenter, Mark Cousins.Summary: Film historian Mark Cousins takes viewers on a journey through the history of world cinema. Features a fifteen-part odyssey that begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and goes all around the world, from Thomas Edison's New Jersey lab, to Hitchcock's London, to post-war Rome, to modern-day Mumbai, and more. The film concludes with a look at the globalized digital film industry of the 21st century. Also includes interviews with legendary filmmakers.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02292 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050184666

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Disc 1. 1895 - 1918: The World discovers a new art form -- 1918 - 1928: The triumph of American film and the first of its rebels -- 1918 - 1932; The great rebel filmmakers around the world -- disc 2. 1930's: The great American movie genres and the brilliance of European film -- 1939 - 1957: The swollen story: World cinema bursting at the seams -- 1957 - 1964: Shock of the new, modern filmmaking in Western Europe -- 1965 - 1969:New waves sweep around the world -- 1967 - 1979: New American cinema -- disc 4. 1969 - 1979:Radical directors in the 70's make state of the nation movies -- 1970's and onwards:Innovation in popular culture and around the world -- 1980's: Moviemaking and protest around the world -- disc 5. 1990 - 1998: The last days of celluloid before the coming of digital -- 1990's: The first days of digital: Reality losing its realness in America and Australia. -- 2000 onwards:Film moves full circle and the future of movies.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; widescreen; Audio English 2.0

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