1939 in film

Take It With You” starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore. The movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” got him his fourth Best Director Oscar in 1939. When Pearl Harbor got attacked in 1941 Capra once again joined the Army. During his time in service he made some propaganda films among them “Prelude to War” in 1943. The film earned him an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Then in 1946 he co-wrote and directed “It’s a Wonderful Life” which today remains one of this best-known…

to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come out of the American film industry were made, all thanks to a new generation of film…

added to the movie production process. The early superhero films that were produced like the 1941 Adventures of Captain Marvel were only black and white. Though there is nothing wrong with black and white movies, the introduction of color in 1939 to film greatly influenced the attitude of the audience of its time. Color changed superhero film for the better. There was a time period after the early films when there was a decline in Saturday film serials, that aimed the superheroes that were in…

Howard Hawks and John ford were both American film directors of the late twentieth century classic Hollywood era. Howard Hawks worked on many film genres from screwball comedy to western. Howard Hawks most notable films each served as an excellent representation of each genre he worked on. Credit for hawks’ success could be due to his freedom as an independent producer, making a number of films in his own manner. Most of Howard Hawks films centered on the themes of friendship, trust, and…

Introduction From the earliest day, People have experienced the films since the film technology was not well-developed, from a still image showing on screen or five to ten seconds moving images to long stories as in these days. As the technology have been developed, The narrative of the stories is being developed as well. There are more details and conventions, not only playing images one by one without any description. The conventions of the story refer to a genre. Genre benefits all…

Wells claimed that is only preparation for directing Citizen Kane was to watch John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) forty times. Ford’s influence on the film is pronounced, but according to David Cook’s History of Narrative Film, it is equally clear that Welles was steeped in the major European traditions, especially those of German Expressionism and the Kammerspielfilm and French poetic realism. Kane’s narrative economy owes much to “the example of Ford, its visual texture is heavily indebted to the…

1993. This Hollywood Pictures film was written by Jonathan Marc Feldman and directed by Thomas Carter, with stars such as Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, and Frank Whaley. Swing Kids was produced by Mark Gordon and John Bard Manulis, and it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. This movie runs for approximately 112 minutes and it’s music is by James Horner, it’s soundtrack includes mostly swing music with songs such as “It Don’t Mean A Thing”. In 1939, pre World War II,…

The development of sound in the cinema happened around the time two major social commotions were going on: the Great Depression and World War II. Before sound came about, most silent films were accompanied ranging from a piano/organ to a full orchestra. Inventors tried joining images to reproduce sound through phonograph records, but it was too difficult to synchronize the sound due to the inadequacy of loudspeakers for theater auditoriums. Finally in 1927, the Warner Brothers released The Jazz…

genera’s to choose from. Some of the films where adapted to fit stories and epic tales you might find and remember from older books and fables from the past. Some of the best films focused on the classical Greek periods, the medieval times, renaissance period’s old westerns and modern day flicks with a strange horror aspect in it. Vincent Price was one of the best actors that could fill a character vehicle in most of the Medieval, classical and horrific films that any industry could produce.…

As the 69th Cannes Film Festival progresses, an attempt at revisiting the only Indian film to have won Grand Prix there In a year when no film from India has made it to the competition section at Cannes, it is interesting to note that the only time an Indian entry won the top honours there was a year before the country was born. Almost 70 years back, in 1946, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand shared the Grand Prix with 10 other films. Among the very first films to follow the approach of social…