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1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.
This drama consisted of picture slides and moving pictures synchronized with phonograph records of talks and music. The early sound-on-disc processes such as Vitaphone were soon superseded by sound-on-film methods like Fox Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm, and RCA Photophone. The trend convinced the largely reluctant industrialists that "talking ...
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
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[16] [17] [18] Officially, the Academy said the rule change was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when 8 to 12 films were nominated each year. "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Caine Mutiny: Edward Dmytryk: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson: War, Drama: Columbia; based on Herman Wouk novel; 7 Oscar nominations
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Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calypso Heat Wave: Fred F. Sears: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Meg Myles: Musical: Columbia: The Careless Years: Arthur Hiller: Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, John Larch