Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

Modern Times ( film ) | Modern Times ( 1936 ), described by Jérôme Larcher as a " grim contemplation on the automatization of the individual "

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

* The Cardinal ( 1936 film ), a British historical drama

* NARA film: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

In the same year, Yoshishige Yoshida made the film Coup d ' État, a portrait of Ikki Kita, the leader of the Japanese coup of February 1936.

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 introduced protective measures, leading to recovery and an all-time production high of 192 films in 1936 ( see 1936 in film ).

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

The film version of The Petrified Forest was released in 1936.

Whale directed over a dozen films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat ( 1936 ).

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.

Working in his parents ' apartment in 1936, his first attempt, called the Z1, was a floating point binary mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from a perforated 35 mm film.

Kenneth " Ken " Loach ( born 17 June 1936 ) is a Palme D ' Or winning English film and television director.

In 1936, Hitler invited Riefenstahl to film the Olympic Games in Berlin, a film which Riefenstahl claimed had been commissioned by the International Olympic Committee.

* 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Philip Kaufman, American film director

* Newsreel film of persistence of vision – 1936 Newsreel film explaining how persistence of vision was thought to work.

These included Things to Come ( 1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936 ) and Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), as well as the early Technicolor films The Drum ( 1938 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) and The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ).

Things to Come ( 1936 ) is a British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies.

In 1934, he starred in The Scarlet Pimpernel and, in 1936, he starred in H. G. Wells's Things to Come.

" Two dramatic works from this decade remain well known, the music for Alexander Korda's 1936 film of H. G. Wells's Things to Come, and a ballet score to his own scenario based on a chess game.

Richardson's film appearances include Things to Come ( 1936 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ; his first nomination for an Academy Award ), Richard III ( 1955 ; playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard ), Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ; with Alec Guinness and Noël Coward ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and Oh!

* Things to Come ( 1936 )

* Things to Come ( 1936 )

In 1936, he was commissioned by fellow Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda to design special effects for Things to Come.

In the 1930s there were several big budget science fiction films, notably Just Imagine ( 1930 ), King Kong ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ) and Lost Horizon ( 1937 ).

Additional references to the Elder Things appear in Lovecraft's short story " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ), and the novella " At the Mountains of Madness ," which is the main source of information about them.

* Things to Come ( 1936 )

In Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness ( 1936 ), " Old Ones " was another name for a fictional alien species, the Elder Things, which were described in vivid detail in the story.

Wells also used the concept in the climax of the 1936 movie Things to Come.

* Things to Come ( 1936 ), Mary Gordon

The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ), Rembrandt ( 1936 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ).

* Things to Come ( 1936 )

The concept that control of air traffic would lead to world government reappears in the works of H. G. Wells, most notably his 1933 book The Shape of Things to Come and its 1936 film adaptation Things to Come.

* Things to Come ( 1936 ) as Roxana / Rowana in H. G. Wells ' adaptation of his novel with Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey and Ann Todd.

* Things to Come ( 1936 ) was an early science fiction film and featured a spacecraft sending two people on the first manned flight around the moon launched into space by a space gun in the year 2036.

Also in 1936, Hawks began filming Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan.

Glenn Miller made his first movie appearance in the 1935 Paramount Pictures release The Big Broadcast of 1936 as a member of the Ray Noble Orchestra performing " Why Stars Come Out at Night ".

In December 1936, her play Days to Come closed its Broadway run after just seven performances.

* Days To Come ( 1936 )

In May 1936, John Lomax, Gordon's successor as head of the Library of Congress's folk archive, discovered a woman named Ethel Best singing " Come by Here " with a group in Raiford, Florida.

Frey ( 1918 – 1992 ) claimed to have written the song circa 1936 under the title " Come By Here ," inspired, he claimed, by a prayer he heard delivered by " Mother Duffin ," a storefront evangelist in Portland, Oregon.

During the summer of 1936, she was loaned to Samuel Goldwyn to appear in Come and Get It, based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

This culminated with his receiving the very first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Swan Bostrom in the period film Come and Get It ( 1936 ).

* Come and Get It ( 1936 )

* Come Closer, Folks ( 1936 ) ( uncredited )

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).