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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Okay kiddo, The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a really long movie about the history of movies. It tells us about how movies started a long time ago and how they changed over time to the movies we watch today.

It’s like when you start watching a movie, and then you see how it starts and how it ends. This movie does that for all of the movies we’ve seen in our lives.

The movie talks about how movies began with no sound, and were just pictures on a screen. People used to watch them in big theaters with lots of other people.

As time went on, the movies started to have sound and eventually, color was introduced. Then people could watch them on their TVs at home instead of just in big theaters.

The movie also talks about famous movie makers, including women, who made history by creating new styles of movies. They made movies about all kinds of things, like superheroes, love stories, scary movies, and action movies.

Overall, the movie teaches us about the history of movies and the people who made them. It helps us to understand how important movies and the people who make them are to our entertainment world today.