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August 13 – Walt Disney's fifth feature film, Bambi, is released. Although the initial box office gross is lackluster (due to the loss of most of the European film market during World War II ), it eventually becomes a financial success through various reissues over the next several decades.
The film becomes MGM's highest-grossing film of the 1940s. At the 15th Academy Awards, Mrs. Miniver wins six awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for William Wyler), Best Actress (for Greer Garson) and Best Supporting Actress (for Teresa Wright). August 8 – Walt Disney's animated film Bambi opens in the United Kingdom.
Propaganda film: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject: The News Parade of the Year 1942: Eugene W. Castle: Short documentary: Prelude to War: Frank Capra: Documentary: The first of Capra's Why We Fight film series Sex Hygiene: Otto Brower, John Ford: George Reeves, Richard Derr: Docudrama: We Are the Marines: Louis de Rochemont: War ...
This category is for film in the United States in the year ... 1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards; A. 14th Academy Awards; F. List of American films of 1942; H.
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communit
The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942). Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era. Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films ...
1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1942: Alibi: Brian Desmond Hurst: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Raymond Lovell: Thriller: Asking for Trouble: Oswald Mitchell: Max Miller, Carole Lynne, Wilfrid Hyde-White