The Story of Film: An Odyssey S1E4 — The Arrival of Sound

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey•Season 1•Episode 4

The Arrival of Sound

8.1/10 · 265 votesSep 24, 201163 min

Ranked #3 of 15 in Season 1•+0.2 vs season avg

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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

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Seasons1

All 1

Season 1 Episodes15

E1 8.1

Birth of the Cinema

E2 8.0

The Hollywood Dream

E3 8.1

The Golden Age of World Cinema

The Arrival of Sound

Post-War Cinema

Sex & Melodrama

European New Wave

New Directors, New Form

E9 8.0

American Cinema of the 70s

E10 7.7

Movies to Change the World

E11 7.8

The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream

E12 7.8

Fight the Power: Protest in Film

E13 7.9

New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America

E14 7.9

New American Independents & The Digital Revolution

E15 7.9

Cinema Today and the Future

Cast2

Mark Cousins

Presenter / Narrator

Mario Cordova

Narrator

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Episode Summary

"The Arrival of Sound" is episode 4 of The Story of Film: An Odyssey season 1. It scored 8.1/10 from 265 votes, ranking #3 of 15 episodes this season (season average 7.9). It aired on September 24, 2011.

Next: E5 · Post-War Cinema Best of Season 1