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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Season 1 · Episode 4
The Arrival of Sound
8.21h 3mSeptember 24, 2011
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.
Episodes
- Episode 1Birth of the Cinema
- Episode 2The Hollywood Dream
- Episode 3The Golden Age of World Cinema
- Episode 4The Arrival of Sound
- Episode 5Post-War Cinema
- Episode 6Sex & Melodrama
- Episode 7European New Wave
- Episode 8New Directors, New Form
- Episode 9American Cinema of the 70s
- Episode 10Movies to Change the World
- Episode 11The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
- Episode 12Fight the Power: Protest in Film
- Episode 13New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
- Episode 14New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
- Episode 15Cinema Today and the Future