The Story of Film: An Odyssey Post-War Cinema (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Post-War Cinema (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1939-1952 looks at film-making during and immediately after World War II. Hollywood films shift away from soft focus and begin to use the techniques of deep staging and deep focus as...See moreThe Story of Film examines world cinema in the period of 1939-1952 looks at film-making during and immediately after World War II. Hollywood films shift away from soft focus and begin to use the techniques of deep staging and deep focus as in John Ford's Stagecoach and Orson Wells's Citizen Kane. It then looks at Italian Neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica before examining the development of Film Noir in the films of Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, and Ida Lupino. American films grow more serious though romantic film remain popular. In the late 40's, American cinema is investigated for communist activities and producers, actors, and directors are blacklisted. Meanwhile in Britain, Carol Reed creates the Noir classic The Third Man Written by Shatterdaymorn See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Mark Cousins Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	The First Movie (2009)
Norman Lloyd Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Dead Poets Society (1989)
Robert Towne Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Chinatown (1974)
Paul Schrader Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	First Reformed (2017)
Judy Balaban Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Haskell Wexler Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Medium Cool (1969)
Stanley Donen Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Charade (1963)
Terence Davies Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Juan Diego Botto Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) See fewer	La Celestina (1996)