TV Series (Educational): THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (2011) C

For people who want to know more about the history of the Cinema (the movies), this series is not for you.  Primarily it deals with the avant garde aspects of cinematography.  

Starting in the early 1800's, the series takes us through the development of the movies as an art form.  After painfully watching all15 episodes I found it tedious and lacking in good organization . . . from an educational standpoint.   What I see  lacking is that is doesn't divide the elements of a movie into their constituent parts, such as story, cinematography, lighting, etc., etc.  What we get is primarily are very special aspects of cinematography for a very limited audience.  Almost nothing about the story.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey (from Wikipedia):  A documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic from Northern Ireland, based on his 2004 book The Story of Film.^[1]

In February 2012, A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Cousins' film as "a semester-long film studies survey course compressed into 15 brisk, sometimes contentious hours" that "stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom." Contrasting the project with its "important precursor (and also, perhaps, an implicit interlocutor)", Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma, Scott commended Cousins' film as "the place from which all future revisionism must start".^[1] WW comment:  You tell me what that means.  Doubletalk.