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3 hours ago · 01. Sound Revolution: The introduction of sound in cinema, with movies like "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, paved the way for the 1930s to become the first full decade to feature talking pictures. This technological advancement revolutionized the industry, making silent films obsolete. 02.
May 6, 2024 · The Wizard of Oz, American musical film, released in 1939, that was based on the book of the same name by L. Frank Baum. Though not an immediate financial or critical success, it became one of the most enduring family films of all time. Deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
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2 days ago · Test screenings of the film began on June 5, 1939. Oz initially ran nearly two hours long. In 1939, the average film ran for about 90 minutes. LeRoy and Fleming knew they needed to cut at least 15 minutes to get the film down to a manageable running time.
4 days ago · Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released by RKO Pictures in 1937. 1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind. Color in cinema
May 13, 2024 · Henry Fonda made 5 films in 1939, three of them taken from U.S. History. In addition to Frank James to Tyrone Power's Jesse and Mr. Watson to Don Ameche's Alexander Graham Bell, what other historical figure did Fonda play that year?
May 13, 2024 · Then, in 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a French painter, perfected the positive photographic process known as daguerreotype, and that same year the English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot successfully demonstrated a negative photographic process that theoretically allowed unlimited positive prints to be produced from each negative. As ...
4 days ago · 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year Quiz. If any one year had to be chosen to represent the Golden Age of Hollywood, it would 1939. The year introduced to the world some of the most famous films ever to be produced. Let's see how much you know!
