* 1929 – Gerry Anderson, English publisher, producer, director, and writer

* Marvin J. Chomsky ( born 1929 ), American television and film director

* 1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor and director ( d. 1989 )

Alternatives to traditional editing were also the folly of early surrealist and dada filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel ( director of the 1929 Un Chien Andalou ) and René Clair ( director of 1924's Entr ' acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray ).

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

* 1929 – Jacques Deray, French film director ( d. 2003 )

* 1929 – Věra Chytilová, Czech director

Fellini had two siblings: Riccardo ( 1921 – 1991 ), a documentary director for RAI Television, and Maria Maddalena ( m. Fabbri ; 1929 – 2002 ).

Kenneth's career as a director was quickly rising after his debut film Big Time in 1929.

* 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host, director, and producer

He was assigned as " dialogue director " for a film called The Love Doctor ( 1929 ).

Laurence Olivier played Malcolm in the 1929 production and Macbeth in 1937 at the Old Vic Theatre in a production that saw the Vic's artistic director Lilian Baylis pass away the night before it opened.

* 1929 – Fernand Lindsay, Canadian churchman, educator, organist, and festival director ( d. 2009 )

* 1929 – Hal Ashby, American director ( d. 1988 )

* 1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer ( d. 2007 )

After the success of the studio's 1929 First National film Noah's Ark, Harry agreed to make Michael Curtiz a major director at the Burbank studio.

** Rajendra Kumar, Indian film actor, producer and director ( b. 1929 )

* June 18 – Wilford Leach, American theater director ( b. 1929 )

** Hal Ashby, American film director ( b. 1929 )

** Sergio Leone, Italian film director ( b. 1929 )

* The film director Terrence Malick translated Heidegger's 1929 essay " Vom Wesen des Grundes " into English.

Sergio Leone (; January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989 ) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the " Spaghetti Western " genre.

Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was in turn probably based on the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ).

In 1929, Hubble and Milton L. Humason formulated what is now known as Hubble's Law by combining Cepheid distances to several galaxies with Vesto Slipher's measurements of the speed at which those galaxies recede from us.

* Melvin Cottrell ( 1929 – 2002 ), former mayor of Jackson Township who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 until his death.

However, even prior to that year, Yale had begun to incorporate such amorphous criteria as ' character ' and ' solidity ', as well as ' physical characteristics ', into its admissions process as an excuse for screening out Jewish students ; but nothing was as effective as legacy preference, which allowed the admissions board to summarily pass over Jews in favor of ' Yale sons of good character and reasonably good record ', as a 1929 memo phrased it.

* 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.

A private individual built it by 1816 so that local people could worship Jesus as depicted as Esquipulas ; preservationists bought it and handed it over to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in 1929.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 13 December 1917 and handed over office on 31 December 1929.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 12, 1929 and handed over office on December 31, 1938.

He was elected to the Federal Council on 12 December 1929 and handed over office on 31 December 1940.

The Local Government Act 1929 abolished the Boards of Guardians and handed their responsibilities to local authorities.

In the middle of the night, on January 14, 1929, Amanullah Khan handed over his kingship to his brother Inayatullah Khan Seraj and tried to secretly escape Kabul towards Kandahar.

When in 1929, Motilal Nehru handed over the Congress presidency to Jawaharlal ( Jawaharlal was elected, with Gandhi's backing ), it greatly pleased Motilal and Nehru family admirers to see the son take over from his father.

The 1929 Timber Workers strike was the first large strike after the onset of the Great Depression when Justice Lukin handed down a new timber industry award that increased the working week from 44 to 48 hours and reduced wages.

She was re-designated RRS ( Royal Research Ship ) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a training ship, and was handed over for preserving as a museum ship in 1979.

641 ( N. H. 1929 ), is a leading case on damages in contracts handed down by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

In 1929 Blumlein handed in his notice at STC and joined the Columbia Graphophone Company, where he reported directly to general manager Isaac Shoenberg.

The landmark ruling was handed down on October 29, 1929.

The family later lived in Chicago, where George Stevens was an accountant before the stock market crash of 1929 instigated the Great Depression, ending his job.

In the very first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, written in the early days of the Great Depression it is revealed that Della Street came from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929, forcing Della to get a job as a secretary.

He secured a job with the Stratford-on-Avon Herald back in England, where, as theatre critic from 1925 to 1929, he cultivated his aesthetic sense of societal decadence and cultural decline.

However the financial burdens of bringing up two daughters led him to take a job at Canford School in Dorset from the start of the school year in 1929, and he went on to teach at Charterhouse School from 1932 until his death.

Safford himself was wrenched out of the job in 1926, returning in 1929.

In 1887 one Mr. E. C. Webster began construction of a hotel on the southeast corner of Raymond Avenue and Kansas Street ( 1929 Green St .) When he was unable to complete the job, a newcomer to the area, Colonel G. G. Green, took over the construction and finished the Green Hotel, which opened in 1888.

In 1929, Bourke-White accepted a job as associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, a position she held until 1935.

After losing his job at a sales company following the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Darrow worked at various odd jobs.

He landed his first job with the prestigious Theatre Guild in the fall of 1929, as an extra playing bit parts.

When the deanship of the law school came open in 1929, Macdonald agonized over whether he should seek the job.

In 1944 he took a job as a good will ambassador for a professional basketball team in Washington D. C., where he lamented that fans remembered his two dropped fly balls in the 1929 World Series far more vividly than his 56 home runs and 191 RBIs in 1930.

After his release in July 1928, he was unemployed and in serious financial hardship, until in 1929 his ecclesiastical contacts secured him a job as a cataloguer in the Vatican Library, where he spent the next fourteen years until the collapse of Fascism in July 1943.

In 1929 DeMar married and took a job teaching printing and industrial history at Keene Normal School to secure a more stable income.

Harry became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 crash.

Two years later, in 1929, Yusuf left his job at the Electricity Supply Authority and applied for a passport to travel abroad.

However, due to the heightened political atmosphere in Germany at the end of the 1920s, and in particular with the appointment of the radical communist architect Hannes Meyer as Gropius's successor, in 1929 Schlemmer resigned his position and moved to take up a job at the Art Academy in Breslau.

He took a lifeguard job in Los Angeles in 1929.

Reith was a former military man and a Scottish Calvinist who on the surface seemed to be all of the things that Eckersley was not and in 1929 when Eckersley divorced his wife and began an affair with a married woman on the staff, Reith forced him out of his job.

The Great Depression of 1929 was still going strong in the thirties and Doob could not find a job.

In 1929, he began working in Sekondi as a clerk in a trading company, but only held the job for a year before traveling to Nigeria.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Gilda Gray lost most of her financial assets, but she managed to get a job dancing at the Palace Theater in New York.

The mostly nonexistent new job opportunities before Poland's industrialization of the mid-1930s were blamed on anti-Semitism, although Jewish per capita income among the working Jews was more than 40 % higher in 1929 than that of Polish non-Jews.

Gerlich returned in November 1929 to his job at the Bavarian National Archives.

In 1929, Sagebiel took up a job in Berlin as a project leader and chief executive officer at the architect Erich Mendelsohn's office, but in 1932, he had to leave this job owing to the severe economic climate in Germany at that time.