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Walt Disney Productions. Traditional / live action. First animated feature, and first feature film to be presented in stereophonic surround sound. Won 2 special Academy Awards . November 13, 1940. ( 1940-11-13) 1941. The Reluctant Dragon. United States.
Children of Paradise. Corn Is Green. I Know Where I'm Going! Leave Her to Heaven. Lost Weekend. Mildred Pierce. Rome Open City. The Southerner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Noli Me Tángere. Albert Yearsley. Rizalina Film Manufacturing Company. Short film. earliest screen adaptation of Jose Rizal's popular novel. 1919. Dalagang Bukid (aka Countryside Maiden, Farm Lady, Mountain Lady) José Nepumuceno. Atang de la Rama, Mar I. Esmeralda.
All motion pictures made and exhibited before 1929 are indisputably in the public domain in the United States. This date will move forward one year, every year, meaning that films released in 1929 will enter the public domain in 2025, films from 1930 in 2026, and so on, concluding with films from 1977 entering the public domain in 2073.
George Tobias, Lucile Fairbanks, Ernest Truex. Comedy. Warner Bros. Remake of Too Young to Marry. Calling Philo Vance. William Clemens. James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill. Mystery. Warner Bros. 12th (out of 15) film with Philo Vance character. Captain Caution.
A list of horror films released in the 1940s. After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal horror caught a second wind and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid-1940s. [1] The early 1940s saw the debut of Lon Chaney Jr. and "The Wolf Man", both of which
Boys of the City, starring the East Side Kids. Brigham Young, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. British Intelligence, starring Boris Karloff. Broadway Melody of 1940, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell – final film of series. Brother Orchid, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart.
September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. September 26 – WWII: The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.