One of my favorite parts about the use of sound in film is the sudden importance of silence. Balazs mentions this in his section on sound where he describes how impossible it is for anything to create silence in the way the sound film does. The best part is when he says that silent films couldn't do it. Naturally, we might assume that silent cinema is the master of silence, but it's much harder to be quiet when you're allowed to be loud than to just continue to be silent where you never could be anything but that.
I also think it's useful how he talks about the isolation of sound and how, when working with sound, we have to be careful not to completely isolate them because they may sound unnatural.
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