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In the year of 1929, there are many significant films. ==Events== The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on. * January 20 - Release of ''In Old Arizona'', the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors. * February 1 - ''The Broadway Melody'' is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of ''Broadway Melody'' films that will run until 1940. * May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed * July 13 - The first all color talkie (in Technicolor), ''On with the Show'', is released by Warner Bros. who lead the way in a new color revolution just as they had ushered in that of the talkies. * August 20 - ''Hallelujah!'' is the first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast. * November 10 - Première of John Grierson's documentary film ''Drifters'' about North Sea herring fishermen, made for the Empire Marketing Board, effectively inaugurating the British Documentary Film Movement. (It debuts at the private Film Society in London on a double-bill with the U.K. première of Eisenstein's ''The Battleship Potemkin''.) * November 15 - U.K. release of ''Atlantic'', a film about the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' which is one of the first British sound-on-film movies and, in its simultaneously-shot German-language version, the first to be released in Germany; also the first ''Titanic'' movie with sound. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1929 in film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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