The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Season 1, Episode 4: The Arrival of Sound
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The coming of sound in the 1930s upends everything. We watch the birth of new types of film: screwball comedies, gangster pictures, horror films, westerns and musicals, and discover a master of most of them, Howard Hawks. Alfred Hitchcock hits his stride and French directors become masters of mood.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Birth of the Cinema
Episode 2
The Hollywood Dream
Episode 3
The Golden Age of World Cinema
Episode 4
The Arrival of Sound
Episode 5
Post-War Cinema
Episode 6
Sex & Melodrama
Episode 7
European New Wave
Episode 8
New Directors, New Form
Episode 9
American Cinema of the 70s
Episode 10
Movies to Change the World
Episode 11
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Episode 12
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Episode 13
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Episode 14
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Episode 15
Cinema Today and the Future