The Story of Film: An Odyssey Season 1 Episode 4 - The Arrival of Sound

Airdate: 2011-Sep-24

Episode summary:

The Story of Film looks at the films of the 1930s and the development of "talking pictures". Sound requires the use of sound stages and this effects lighting and cinematography. It looks at Rouben Mamoulian's musical Love Me Tonight. It looks at the development of film genres in Hollywood: horror films, gangster films, musicals, westerns, comedies, and animated cartoons. It then looks overseas to look at the work of French filmmakers, South American filmmakers, Poland, Germany, and England.

About The Story of Film: An Odyssey series:

Award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and tells the story of international cinema...Show more >