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Lobby card for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), which used new matte painting techniques for use with Technicolor. By the 1940s, Hollywood's effects specialists had over a decade of studio experience. Technicolor had been especially challenging but faster film introduced in 1939 began to make Technicolor a viable option for studio production.
It is a critical and commercial success and goes on to become Chaplin's most financially successful film. November 13 – World premiere of Walt Disney's animated film Fantasia at the Broadway Theatre in New York City, the first film to be released in a multi-channel sound format (see Fantasound).
A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. Other significant production and distribution companies included Republic, Monogram and PRC.
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1940 film awards (4 P) F. 1940 film festivals (1 P) I. 1940 in Indian cinema (5 P) S. Film series introduced in 1940 (4 C, 13 P) Pages in category "1940 ...
Arise, My Love (1940) – romantic comedy film telling the love story of a pilot and a journalist who meet in the latter days of the Spanish Civil War, based on the true story of Harold Edward Dahl [4] Bismarck (1940) – Nazi German historical film depicting the life of the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, a German nationalist and lonely ...
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. [1] It was written by Billy Wilder , Charles Brackett , and Walter Reisch , [ 1 ] based on a story by Melchior Lengyel .
Back Street (1961 film) Baltic Tango; The Bamboo Blonde; Bastard Out of Carolina (film) Battles Without Honor and Humanity (film) A Beautiful Mind (film) La colmena (film) Before Stonewall; Before the Fall (2004 film) Before, Now & Then; The Bells of Nagasaki (film) Beloved Life; Betrayed (2020 film) Beware of Pity; Beyond the Sea (2004 film ...