Story of film: An Odyssey (Cousins, 2011)

Episode 1: Birth of the Cinema

What was the episode about?
The episode was about the creation of cinema and how it has progressed from 1895 to 1920 and showed us what the first film was about in 1895 and also how it was created, the people who were behind it and the people who starred in them. Editing was also talked about, involving who created it and how it was created. 

What have you learned?
I have learnt that money does not drive movies, ideas do and that it is hard to tell what will connect with an audience, empathy and sympathy play a big part in the movies. The Lumiere Brothers created the worlds first film camera by being inspired by a sewing machine and that it became illegal to film so they went to Hollywood. When Lumiere's film first came out with a train, the audience thought it was coming out of the screen towards them. Lastly, I learnt many types of editing and the fact that editing was discovered by a machine malfunction, like a magic trick.