The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Part 1

Chapters 1-3: Birth Of The Cinema, The Hollywood Dream, and The Golden Age of World Cinema. The opening of The Story Of Film: An Odyssey shows the birth of a great new art form: the movies. We see how Hollywood became a glittering entertainment industry and how star directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton emerged in the roaring twenties. Then we visit Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Shanghai and Tokyo to discover the places where movie makers were pushing the boundaries of the medium.