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Years in film. Thousands of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra 's masterpiece It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles 's masterpiece Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical ...
May 10, 1940. ( 1940-05-10) Running time. 84 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Beyond Tomorrow (also known as And So Goodbye and Beyond Christmas) is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and produced by noted cinematographer Lee Garmes; Garmes was one of a handful of cinematographers who became film ...
Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton 's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM ...
Main article: Early history of animation. Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving ...
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.
A. 1940s action films (11 C, 57 P) 1940s adventure films (19 C, 10 P) 1940s animated films (19 C, 1 P) 1940s avant-garde and experimental films (11 P)
Our Town is a 1940 American drama romance film adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, starring Martha Scott as Emily Webb, and William Holden as George Gibbs. The cast also included Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. It was adapted by Harry Chandlee, Craven and Wilder, and directed ...
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.