The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Season 1, Episode 4: The Arrival of Sound
Documentary • 63 min • 1 season, 15 episodes • ★ 7.7/10
Episode synopsis
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.
About The Story of Film: An Odyssey
A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Birth of the Cinema
- E2The Hollywood Dream
- E3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- E5Post-War Cinema
- E6Sex & Melodrama
- E7European New Wave
- E8New Directors, New Form
- E9American Cinema of the 70s
- E10Movies to Change the World
- E11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- E12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- E13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America