1939 with the cinema

The year 1939 is for the extraordinary cinema one year at the time which very many films are made of which much became the traditional immortal ones. The cinema then knows the apogee of the western, films of adventures and the large studios.

Events

  • the the United States know the apogee of the system of the studios nine - 5 majors (MGM, Paramount, Warner, Fox and RKO) and four small (Columbia, Universal, United Artists and Walt Disney) and they turn in Technicolor. More than 400 films are produced, it is the apogee of the western and film of adventure. the Grande depression is finished, prosperity is of return - 15.115 cinemas accommodate 80 million spectators per week - and the large producers do not hesitate to invest colossal sums in spectaculars of prestic. The isolationist policy of the country shows through in very many produced films and the country wants nothing to know what occurs in Europe.
  • In Germany, is turned 118 films
  • In Italy where the production is encouraged by premiums proportional to the receipts, are turned 78 films, some melodrama, comedy, propaganda films, musical films, of adventures, histories or mythological.
  • In France:
    • a long strike touches the French cinematographic world during first half of the year of the year, partly of with the social crisis and the foreign production which is in a hard competition with 80 French films carried out this year, against 122 the previous year.
    • the idea is launched of large a cinematographic festival which could take place on September 1st with Cannes. Two thousand invitations are launched and Louis Lumière agrees to be the first president about it. The German entry of the troops in Poland, the very same day of its grand opening, prematurely put fine at the festival.
    • Charles Trenet makes his beginnings with the cinema in I sing .
    • to escape from the racial laws and the pressure from the Nazis, of the German scenario writers takes refuge in France of which Ludwig Berger, Kurt Bernhardt, max Ophüls, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Robert Siodmak, Robert Wiene, while a certain number of French scenario writers conscious of the arrival of the war leave for the the United States.
    • an scientific experiment which passes unperceived is organized, it acts of the diffusion on line of a military procession using a new process named television .
  • the England dream always of colonial conquests what shows through in these films. Alfred Hitchcock makes last film of its English period, the death of Douglas Fairbanks is an national event and the market is dominated by the American production. 20 million spectators per week attends the cinemas.

Principal films of the year

Rewards

Oscars

Other rewards

  • July 7th: Quai of the fogs of Marcel Carné receives the national Grand Prix of the cinema.

Events society men

  • Sacha Guitry wife his fourth wife Genevieve de Sereville and is elected with the Académie Goncourt.

Principal births

Principal deaths

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