The Story of Film: An Odyssey The Arrival of Sound (Season 1, Episode 4)
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TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Arrival of Sound (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 62 min | Documentary, History

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 ...See moreThe 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 (Jean Cocteau, Jean Vigo, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir), South American filmmakers (Mário Peixoto), Poland (Stefan and Franciszka Themerson), Germany (Leni Riefenstahl), and England (Hitchcock). Written by Shatterdaymorn See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Mark Cousins Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	The First Movie (2009)
Howard Hawks Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rio Bravo (1959)
Jean Renoir Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Rules of the Game (1939)
Norman Lloyd Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Dead Poets Society (1989)
Jean-Michel Frodon Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014)
Juan Diego Botto Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) Narrator (voice) (version: spanish) See fewer	La Celestina (1996)
Jean Bouquin Self - directeur du Théâtre Dejazet Self - directeur du Théâtre Dejazet See fewer	The Time to Die (1970)
Alfred Hitchcock Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Psycho (1960)
Christopher Lloyd Dennis Self - Superman (uncredited) Self - Superman (uncredited) See fewer	Not Now John (2012)