Events
- February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.
- February 10 - Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot.
- May 17 - My Favorite Wife is released.
- May - A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed.
- July 27 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
- October 15 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
- November 13 - World premiere of Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first film to be released in a multichannel sound format (see Fantasound). The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and lead to the development of a multichannel surround system.
- In the United Kingdom, the Crown Film Unit supersedes the GPO Film Unit in the production of documentary films.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)