Events
Motion picture historians and film often rate 1939 as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood." Hollywood movies produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age (in spite of many cheaply made or indistinguished films also being produced, something one expects with any year in commercial cinema), and during 1939 there were the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which have been honored as all-time classic films.
- August 15 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.
- October 17 – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered in Washington, D.C.
- December 15 – Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, with a three-day-long festival.
- Canada establishes a National Film Commission, predecessor of the National Film Board of Canada, with John Grierson as first Commissioner.
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